Replying To AfricanGael:  "If it had been an All-Ireland semi final , the slaying of the dragon and watched by nearly a million people of course there would have been the same response.

Morgan doesn't have Smalls form, sent off in two consecutive All-Ireland's."

Replying To Joxer:  ""If a Tyrone player broke a player's jaw…". Get over your martyrdom. Niall Morgan broke Paddy Andrews' jaw and got a yellow card. There was nothing like the hysteria surrounding Small's challenge. It was a league game in Croke Park. Do you only support Tyrone in the championship perhaps?"

Replying To essmac:  "Although club means far more to me than county, I have been attending county games all over the country (including Parnell Park) from the late '70s, since you ask - some great memories too. Often, the day out was better than the result!

The issue is the fact that no action was taken - not even a free awarded. If you could (rightly) book Morgan for his mis-timed hit, hard to see why you couldn't do the same for Small's obviously mis-timed hit. Small even made it easier for the referee by lifting his elbow as he followed through. Amazingly, the RTE commentary, even with the benefit of slo-mo replays, was of the "nothing to see here" variety". Even if the ref and the linesmen saw no foul, it was disgraceful that the game wasn't stopped purely on player welfare grounds. When a man falls like that, he's hurt. Lane's inaction was unbelievable.

The Morgan hit was when both players were moving at speed. No debate about it being a card though, and should have been a red - intent not matter - accident or not, if a man is busted up after a shoulder, regardless of intent, the guy who did the shoulder has to walk. A properly executed shoulder never breaks your jaw. You might have thought that McLaughlin being stretchered off might have alerted the ref, but no. In terms of intent though, McLaughlin collected the ball in a fairly static position with his chest facing Small and Small did him. Small's state of mind may be judged form the fact that, a few minutes later, he assaulted another Mayo player. Oisin McConville summed it up perfectly: "It was an horrendous tackle. One of the things for me, John Small sizes him up as you can see. He sizes him up to shoulder him, I have no doubt about that. … He hits him down the middle. How Conor Lane, Maurice Deegan both 10, 15 yards away weren't able to see that?"

And yes, of course the media reacts to what is publicly highlighted - low profile games are not reacted to primarily because most people don't know about them. But you also ignore the fact that, in that 2019 match, there was plenty of niggle on both sides and a couple of incidents that Dublin didn't want highlighted either, such as McCarthy's kick at a Tyrone man on the ground, so it was in their interests to stay quiet:
https://www.otbsports.com/football/dont-want-see-people-getting-hurt-wexford-legend-matty-forde-dublin-tyrone-clashes-839430

Dublin could have won the game from that incident though, had the follow-on goal chance been taken. It reminds me of what happened in the 1984 semi. When Dublin beat Tyrone in a semi-final in 1984, the game turned on a good goal that Dublin worked from a free. That free came from an incident when Dublin knocked out the Tyrone midfielder with a rabbit punch. Not only was the Dublin guy not carded, Tyrone didn't even get a free. Instead, the ref awarded Dublin a free(!), from which Dublin worked an admittedly well-taken goal.

The media bias against Northern teams is good crack and is great for motivation. I hope it continues, frankly. But don't go kidding yourself it doesn't exist. Remember Cavanagh's yellow card, a week later got a *full page spread in the Sunday Business Post* - an Irish financial newspaper(!). About a yellow card! It'd be as if a yellow card for Suarez was being talked about in the Financial Times a week later. Remember when, in 2015, The Sunday Game's official Twitter profile 'favourited' a tweet that read: "I hope Kerry knock seven shades out of these Tyrone lads." I liked that tweet - at least they were honest about it. And it's not just Tyrone people saying that there is an anti-Tyrone / anti-Ulster bias in the Irish sporting media. On occasion, the Irish media itself says it! The Irish Times stated that: "Some of the commentary about Tyrone last week went beyond general sports chatter and veered mightily close to less comfortable territory, some of it borderline xenophobic." See: Well" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">http://www.irishtimes.com/sport/gaelic-games/gaelic-football/tipping-point-tyrone-are-the-bogeyman-and-it-s-not-a-pretty-place-to-be-1.2319836"

Replying To Joxer:  "How would a goalkeeper have the form of a tough steely centre half back? The fact is that Andrews had his jaw smashed, it barely made the press and Dublin didn't make a big deal about it. You'd almost think it wasn't a contact sport these days."

Replying To Jackeen:  "The fact that you didn't even know one of your own was involved in the exact same scenario speaks volumes. There was no outcry. That tackle by Morgan and the resulting injury to Andrews should have been the watershed moment."

Replying To avonali:  "Well it's not just the media. Some HS posters regard Tyrone as the North Korea of Inter County football. Have a read of this from Kerry poster who clearly thinks it's possible that the outbreak. "up there" in the Tyrone squad is. a diversionary tactic. You couldn't make it up.

"All these delays are of course regrettable and no way ideal for our team preparations. The Tyrone cynic in me also still wonders if all is what it seems up there. That might be very unfair but the reality is no one knows what's really gone on up there up to this point.""

Replying To AfricanGael:  "How would a goalkeeper have the form of a tough steely centre half back? The fact is that Andrews had his jaw smashed, it barely made the press and Dublin didn't make a big deal about it. You'd almost think it wasn't a contact sport these days."

Replying To Saynothing:  "Difference staring you in the face. Yellow card and no yellow card. Morgan didn't walk about like the hard man while player was down, Small didn't show no regret while Mayo players were calling out for medical assistance. But then again as an earlier poster says, Dubs are built hard, rest are easy pickings."

Replying To essmac:  "Although club means far more to me than county, I have been attending county games all over the country (including Parnell Park) from the late '70s, since you ask - some great memories too. Often, the day out was better than the result!

The issue is the fact that no action was taken - not even a free awarded. If you could (rightly) book Morgan for his mis-timed hit, hard to see why you couldn't do the same for Small's obviously mis-timed hit. Small even made it easier for the referee by lifting his elbow as he followed through. Amazingly, the RTE commentary, even with the benefit of slo-mo replays, was of the "nothing to see here" variety". Even if the ref and the linesmen saw no foul, it was disgraceful that the game wasn't stopped purely on player welfare grounds. When a man falls like that, he's hurt. Lane's inaction was unbelievable.

The Morgan hit was when both players were moving at speed. No debate about it being a card though, and should have been a red - intent not matter - accident or not, if a man is busted up after a shoulder, regardless of intent, the guy who did the shoulder has to walk. A properly executed shoulder never breaks your jaw. You might have thought that McLaughlin being stretchered off might have alerted the ref, but no. In terms of intent though, McLaughlin collected the ball in a fairly static position with his chest facing Small and Small did him. Small's state of mind may be judged form the fact that, a few minutes later, he assaulted another Mayo player. Oisin McConville summed it up perfectly: "It was an horrendous tackle. One of the things for me, John Small sizes him up as you can see. He sizes him up to shoulder him, I have no doubt about that. … He hits him down the middle. How Conor Lane, Maurice Deegan both 10, 15 yards away weren't able to see that?"

And yes, of course the media reacts to what is publicly highlighted - low profile games are not reacted to primarily because most people don't know about them. But you also ignore the fact that, in that 2019 match, there was plenty of niggle on both sides and a couple of incidents that Dublin didn't want highlighted either, such as McCarthy's kick at a Tyrone man on the ground, so it was in their interests to stay quiet:
https://www.otbsports.com/football/dont-want-see-people-getting-hurt-wexford-legend-matty-forde-dublin-tyrone-clashes-839430

Dublin could have won the game from that incident though, had the follow-on goal chance been taken. It reminds me of what happened in the 1984 semi. When Dublin beat Tyrone in a semi-final in 1984, the game turned on a good goal that Dublin worked from a free. That free came from an incident when Dublin knocked out the Tyrone midfielder with a rabbit punch. Not only was the Dublin guy not carded, Tyrone didn't even get a free. Instead, the ref awarded Dublin a free(!), from which Dublin worked an admittedly well-taken goal.

The media bias against Northern teams is good crack and is great for motivation. I hope it continues, frankly. But don't go kidding yourself it doesn't exist. Remember Cavanagh's yellow card, a week later got a *full page spread in the Sunday Business Post* - an Irish financial newspaper(!). About a yellow card! It'd be as if a yellow card for Suarez was being talked about in the Financial Times a week later. Remember when, in 2015, The Sunday Game's official Twitter profile 'favourited' a tweet that read: "I hope Kerry knock seven shades out of these Tyrone lads." I liked that tweet - at least they were honest about it. And it's not just Tyrone people saying that there is an anti-Tyrone / anti-Ulster bias in the Irish sporting media. On occasion, the Irish media itself says it! The Irish Times stated that: "Some of the commentary about Tyrone last week went beyond general sports chatter and veered mightily close to less comfortable territory, some of it borderline xenophobic." See: Great" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">http://www.irishtimes.com/sport/gaelic-games/gaelic-football/tipping-point-tyrone-are-the-bogeyman-and-it-s-not-a-pretty-place-to-be-1.2319836"

Replying To avonali:  "Why do people have multiple accounts? Why do people try to hide their county allegiance??

Here it is obvious that the posters known as African Gael and The Hermit are one and the same poster. It's not just that exact same phraseology it's the same anti-Dublin diatribe. He reserves his Hermit handle for the Kerry forum but comes into the main forum and tries to conceal his county allegiance. Pathetic.

Main forum
"If it had been an All-Ireland semi final , the slaying of the dragon and watched by nearly a million people of course there would have been the same response."

Morgan doesn't have Smalls form, sent off in two consecutive All-Ireland's.
AfricanGael

Kerry forum
We can switch of attention to Mayo if and when Tyrone are defeated. Let the hype machine wash over Mayo now and let them deal with the national narrative being constructed that after slaying the blue dragon Sam is surely destined for the west.
The Hermit

Again, why do posters try to his their county allegiance. Seems like they want to dish out nonsense about other counties and not have to get any back. African Gael is as Kerryman."

Replying To Jackeen:  "Your issue is with John Small. You're fooling nobody. You didn't even remember the Morgan incident had happened for God's sake. That tells me all I needed to know."

Replying To avonali:  "Well it's not just the media. Some HS posters regard Tyrone as the North Korea of Inter County football. Have a read of this from Kerry poster who clearly thinks it's possible that the outbreak. "up there" in the Tyrone squad is. a diversionary tactic. You couldn't make it up.

"All these delays are of course regrettable and no way ideal for our team preparations. The Tyrone cynic in me also still wonders if all is what it seems up there. That might be very unfair but the reality is no one knows what's really gone on up there up to this point.""

Replying To avonali:  "Why do people have multiple accounts? Why do people try to hide their county allegiance??

Here it is obvious that the posters known as African Gael and The Hermit are one and the same poster. It's not just that exact same phraseology it's the same anti-Dublin diatribe. He reserves his Hermit handle for the Kerry forum but comes into the main forum and tries to conceal his county allegiance. Pathetic.

Main forum
"If it had been an All-Ireland semi final , the slaying of the dragon and watched by nearly a million people of course there would have been the same response."

Morgan doesn't have Smalls form, sent off in two consecutive All-Ireland's.
AfricanGael

Kerry forum
We can switch of attention to Mayo if and when Tyrone are defeated. Let the hype machine wash over Mayo now and let them deal with the national narrative being constructed that after slaying the blue dragon Sam is surely destined for the west.
The Hermit

Again, why do posters try to his their county allegiance. Seems like they want to dish out nonsense about other counties and not have to get any back. African Gael is as Kerryman."

Replying To Saynothing:  "Jackeen, issue is with a player taking another player out. Ye can't meet a man shoulder to front with the two of them travelling in different directions. Gets away with it but if he only stood his ground he might get blew up for obstructing a player. Broken jaw could turn into a fractured skull just as quick. No player deserves that from any county."

Replying To KingdomBoy1:  "I think you're trying to stir the pot there Avon, posting stuff from the Kerry forum."

Replying To Jackeen:  "Every player who executes a shoulder does so with the intention of taking the player off the ball right? I am not disputing the severity of the injury to McLoughlin at all. I said that we have had an injury like this already recently enough and that should have set the wheels in motion for a rule change to protect against incidents like this where there is a mistimed shoulder (intent or no intent). As a result of two such mistimed shoulders we have 2 players with broken jaws who both had to have surgery and both had to drink their food from straws. I don't want to see a a third."

Replying To avonali:  "Why do people have multiple accounts? Why do people try to hide their county allegiance??

Here it is obvious that the posters known as African Gael and The Hermit are one and the same poster. It's not just that exact same phraseology it's the same anti-Dublin diatribe. He reserves his Hermit handle for the Kerry forum but comes into the main forum and tries to conceal his county allegiance. Pathetic.

Main forum
"If it had been an All-Ireland semi final , the slaying of the dragon and watched by nearly a million people of course there would have been the same response."

Morgan doesn't have Smalls form, sent off in two consecutive All-Ireland's.
AfricanGael

Kerry forum
We can switch of attention to Mayo if and when Tyrone are defeated. Let the hype machine wash over Mayo now and let them deal with the national narrative being constructed that after slaying the blue dragon Sam is surely destined for the west.
The Hermit

Again, why do posters try to his their county allegiance. Seems like they want to dish out nonsense about other counties and not have to get any back. African Gael is as Kerryman."

Replying To JoeSoap:  "All this talk of multiple accounts and whatnot is a pretty easy one for the Admins to sort out if they wanted to."