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Talking Point I didn't mention yesterday was the sending off of Mark Brennan and Rory O'Carroll. The reason being I wanted to give it full focus today.
Both players were sent off after receiving two yellow cards for ending up on the ground wrestling and bear hugging on two separate occasions.
Rory O'Carroll was the instigator and has a long history of this nonsense.
The Dublin full back is such an annoying player to watch.
Because, he isn't a dirty player we know this, he knows this and probly the referee does aswell.
(He's a Posh boy from Stillorgan for god sake!)
Consisent
What he does is petty, consistent niggling with the aim to put a forward off his game.
Which, is successful if the Referee allows him to do so and especially when he books both parties like yesterday.
If the Referee, initially did penalise O'Carroll alone. His methods become ineffective. As he would then be taking himself completely out of the game either by inevitably being sent off or mentally by not playing football whatsoever.
The ref issued both players a yellow card but it doesn't deter O'Carroll or any player from doing it. A stern talking to might have been more suffice!
The Kilmacud man didn't want to play football and it's not as if Mark Brennan, a forward, wants to stop a defender from playing but he is going to protect himself. Mark possibly only got carded because he was able for O'Carroll physically, one of our smaller forwards might not have been.
Maybe if the referee had been better informed by his umpires and linesmen in the first place then Mark wouldn't have got sent off or earned a new reputation for lacking discipline and being easily wound up.
Frustrating decision and frustrating to watch.
Furthermore, with the Football Rules Committee debating over the introduction of a new yellow card rule, where one yellow and you are gone, this type of situation will become even more frustrating.
If this rule does come to pass, the GAA will have to require stronger willed officials.
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