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Replying To seanie08:  "Didn't travel to Omagh but sounded like Carrick left it behind them and the scotstown match should never have even started."
Carrick 7 or 8 points the better team but got what the deserved. Playing hold ball and taking wrong options. Too cute for their own good. Emyvale to a lesser extent reaped what the sowed on Saturday. The keeper's mistake was only the last nail in the coffin. Should have had game well wrapped up before that.

ORIELMAN85 (Monaghan) - Posts: 869 - 24/11/2025 10:12:49    2645851

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Replying To MalsBalls:  "what happened yesterday was so GAA...how a pitch is deemed good at the start of a game but not for the final 30 minutes is a bit of a joke...everyone should be rightly angry for the inconvenience caused

i have no doubt that player welfare should have been taken into consideration and its better to make the right decision late rather than never but the right decision was surely to assess the pitch 2-3 hours before kick off...what kind of numpties had a say here. need to name and shame"
The biggest issue with this was that a double header was scheduled for Omagh in late November - anyone with an ounce of sense should have known that you couldn't rely on that surface. The 2nd biggest issue was that the decision to call the game off wasn't taken before the game - conditions were bad enough already, for the decision to be made then. As it is, Joe left it til half time when one side has a decent lead and it leaves that side feeling very aggrieved. If the call was made before the game, I'm sure both sets of management would have completely understood

Just incredible levels of ineptitude across the board

patk (Monaghan) - Posts: 950 - 24/11/2025 10:26:45    2645853

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Replying To totalrecall:  "Further evidence if any were needed of shambolic split season, nothing has changed very disrespectful to clubs involved in club championship games having to play important games in the ****hole of November on waterlogged pitches"
In fairness, nothing to do with the split season. Even before the split season was introduced, the provincial club championships were played through to end November/early December, before the All-Ireland semi-finals and finals took place in the New Year.

If you don't want them this time of year, what are your proposals re. playing them at some other time of year, and how do you work the entire inter-county and club county championships around those proposals?

Main issue leading to yesterday's abandonment was the dubious decision to have double-headers.

Pikeman96 (Wexford) - Posts: 3250 - 24/11/2025 10:52:54    2645857

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