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David Gough Best Ref In Country

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Replying To Sindar: "Not true. Off the top of my head I seem to recall Brian Gavin and Barry Kelly refereing a few Hurling Finals with Kilkenny and they're both Leinster.I'm sure there are plenty of other examples" Yep, deegan refereed the 2016 replay. It's only your own county you can't referee - no danger of Gough being intelligible this year, that's for sure! cavanman47 (Cavan) - Posts: 5012 - 14/07/2019 11:36:58 2210602 Link
I thought he gave a good example of how refereeing should be done, consulted his umpires, pulled players up for off the ball stuff. Handled the first penalty very well. Sensible stuff. That said, it did seem to be quite an open affair at times. As opposed to the tyrone/roscommon game where the ref seemed to let an awful lot of niggly off the ball stuff go on. Bon (Kildare) - Posts: 1910 - 14/07/2019 11:42:00 2210604 Link
Replying To David: "Yeah definitely one of the top referees. He can't ref the All Ireland if we are contesting." Is that the All-Ireland Junior Final.I thought Galway beat Meath in the Junior semi final yesterday in Hyde Park. endgame (Roscommon) - Posts: 2166 - 14/07/2019 11:47:55 2210606 Link
Replying To cavanman47: "Yep, deegan refereed the 2016 replay. It's only your own county you can't referee - no danger of Gough being intelligible this year, that's for sure!" Nor yourself bud either. catch22 (USA) - Posts: 2148 - 14/07/2019 11:58:00 2210614 Link
Replying To Thelonesomegoose: "The best ref in the country is the one you never hear about or that you have to ask 'who is that fella'." Jays , hah, a philosopher in our midst if you don't mind. Utter rubbish mind. catch22 (USA) - Posts: 2148 - 14/07/2019 12:01:20 2210618 Link
1. Ref for All-Ireland should be from neutral province. 2. The problem with "celebrity ref" is that they feel that the game is all about their performance and not the players. 3. Gough is a good ref suckvalleypaddy (Galway) - Posts: 1669 - 14/07/2019 12:08:25 2210622 Link
If Meath play Dublin in the final Gough would be a good ref, he is so fair, lol. Up the Royals. maroondiesel (Mayo) - Posts: 1196 - 14/07/2019 12:19:47 2210632 Link
No he is not, far from it. Games shouldn't be about refs, there should be no mention of them, thats the sign of a good ref. westkerry (Kerry) - Posts: 1250 - 14/07/2019 12:22:06 2210634 Link
For me Conor Lane is the best by a long way jacktheDub (Dublin) - Posts: 944 - 14/07/2019 12:41:41 2210643 Link
Replying To jacktheDub: "David coldrick did Dublin v Kerry 2015, Maurice Deegan Dublin V Mayo 2017." 2016 replay. (Y)Our Joe did 2017. cavanman47 (Cavan) - Posts: 5012 - 14/07/2019 12:48:27 2210648 Link
Replying To jacktheDub: "For me Conor Lane is the best by a long way" He be in my eyes on of the worst Dellboypolecat (Tyrone) - Posts: 15069 - 14/07/2019 14:32:31 2210696 Link
Replying To mayotyroneman: "can only ref all-ireland final if a leinster team is NOT contesting the final" Sorry not true Deegan and Goldrick have reffed finals involving Dublin Dellboypolecat (Tyrone) - Posts: 15069 - 14/07/2019 14:34:48 2210698 Link
Replying To cavanman47: "2016 replay. (Y)Our Joe did 2017." I beg your pardon...... that's Super Joe :) xx Dubsfan28 (Dublin) - Posts: 2509 - 14/07/2019 15:19:47 2210718 Link
Replying To catch22: "Jays , hah, a philosopher in our midst if you don't mind. Utter rubbish mind." Not a philosopher by any means. But nobody should know what a ref does or who they are. Mind you a ref living in a county shouldn't be reffing a game with that county involved. That's common sense. Thelonesomegoose (Leitrim) - Posts: 204 - 14/07/2019 15:37:02 2210727 Link
But nobody should know what a ref does or who they are. That's even more daft than the first one. What in the name of Jaysus does that mean. Sure if they don't know what he does, how would he get a game and if they don't know who he is ,then the same applies. I don't know what you're at at all. Are you one of those ninjas or what ? catch22 (USA) - Posts: 2148 - 14/07/2019 18:30:06 2210861 Link
Replying To Sindar: "Not true. Off the top of my head I seem to recall Brian Gavin and Barry Kelly refereing a few Hurling Finals with Kilkenny and they're both Leinster.I'm sure there are plenty of other examples" Gough refereed Dublin v Kerry once. MillerX (Meath) - Posts: 1063 - 14/07/2019 18:52:11 2210881 Link
Replying To MillerX: "Gough refereed Dublin v Kerry once." Aye. And admitted afterwards that he cost Kerry the game cavanman47 (Cavan) - Posts: 5012 - 14/07/2019 20:06:08 2210946 Link
The only thing he cost Kerry was a free kick. lilylanger (Kildare) - Posts: 758 - 14/07/2019 20:28:06 2210965 Link
Im mot sure if Gough is the best. He misses double hops a fair bit. Granted they are hard to pick up on. The penalty he gave, and then rescinded was shocking. Got the decison correct in the end though but there was a sense of " look at me im a great guy". I think Lane is better and coldrick too perhaps. daytona11 (Kildare) - Posts: 4012 - 15/07/2019 20:12:13 2211573 Link
Replying To daytona11: "Im mot sure if Gough is the best. He misses double hops a fair bit. Granted they are hard to pick up on. The penalty he gave, and then rescinded was shocking. Got the decison correct in the end though but there was a sense of " look at me im a great guy". I think Lane is better and coldrick too perhaps." Coldrick didn't blow for a penalty for Roscommon on Saturday when it was blatant. The tackle on Smith as he was kicking the ball. (Don't take it as a gripe as we'd have lost anyway and it would have been a "lucky" penalty cause the angle for the shot was very tight - but it was still a penalty). I also noticed that his umpires were out of position when Peter Harte struck the crossbar. The ball crashed down about a foot from the line. Both umpires were behind the goal but one umpire is always supposed to be on the goal line for such decisions. They got lucky because if it was marginal they'd have been in trouble. InterCounty referees pick and train their umpires and are assessed on their perfomance. Sindar (Roscommon) - Posts: 348 - 16/07/2019 13:37:10 2211853 Link