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No replay and no illegality.Happy days

great stuff!

I was looking around online to see about this and nothing yet.

Word only filtered through late last nite/early this morning.
Ubless Kildare are on some kind of self destruction this is the end of it.

They've made no friends by bringing it this far so hopefully they won't be stupid enough to bring it any further. After all that's happened, it would surely be thrown out by the courts.

Super! Maybe we can all get back to discussion the games now after all this. Have Kildare issued a statement or will they?

It doesn't take much justification to get an injunction to stop the match pending consideration by the Courts but hopefully Kildare won't take that path.

Their chairman says that they have authorisation from their County Board meeting to take the "Ultimate Sanction" but their secretary said that they won't hold up the Championship.

So who knows?

Fooking excellent!! Roll on July 2nd.....

Thank God for that. The whole process took too long for my peace of mind. Too many sleepless nights. It was after 3am when I got a text last night. Bad luck to Kildare. I hope they are hammered by Cavan in the qualifiers. There was a hell of a lot of rubbish on the Kildare GAA website. After three attempts, they might finally take their beating.
RTE and some other papers also jumped to conclusions straight after the match which was unhelpful. Fair dues to the Sunday Tribune. On each of the last two Sundays, a man called Gerry McDermott outlined very clearly how Offaly did nothing wrong and that gave me more confidence.

Gerry McDermott outlined very clearly how Offaly did nothing wrong

Yep, he even convinced our very own man behind the wire that he was wrong

Great to be looking forward to the next game rather than nervously over our shoulder about whether we'll keep the last one.

I was unsure at the start, but the longer this went on the more I was convinced that we did nothing wrong. Good to see the DRA backing us up as well in that at least now no-one can argue. Legal and GAA minds all looked at it and said we did nothing wrong - hard for any pub talker to debate it now.

Bring on the Strawberry Pickers!

Statement from Cumann Lúthchleas Gael Cill Dara following D.R.A. Ruling

Following last nights Disputes Resolution Authority hearing Kildare G.A.A. accept the decision of the Authority.

We are disappointed to lose our case as we still believe the Blood Substitution Rule is open to serious abuse in its current format.
So concerned are we about this situation that it is our intention to put a motion forward to next years Congress to address the confusion on the blood subs rule.

Having been madated by the Clubs of Kildare to follow all routes of appeal in our attempt to seek clarification we have now done so and we will now move on with all our minds focussed in supporting the Kildare Senior Football team in their qualifier game against Cavan in Newbridge on Saturday June 24th. We hope they can achieve success and we wish the same to our friends and neighbours Offaly in the Leinster Championship.

Syl Merrins,
Cathaoirleach C.LG Cill Dara

Have any of you downloaded the DRA's published decision? It's available at http://www.sportsdra.ie/documents/dra202006.pdf and makes interesting reading. You almost have to admire the way the Senior Counsel for Kildare focussed on the words "The use" of the Temporary Substitute and how this no longer applied in the case of James Coughlan after Paschal came back on for someone else.

Anyway, the DRA are very emphatic that the initial valid Blood-Subbing change cannot be changed retrospectively by subsequent acts. That was the basis of Kildare's case and they've been spanked with it. Woohoo !!!

Some people were on the pitch ('98), we though it was all over (two weeks ago).

It is now!

Roll on the Yella Bellies. I hope we can muster up the support now, god knows our lads deserve it.

Agreed re. the support. Wexford will have a big crowd thanks to the hurlers. Hopefully our minor hurlers will be out that day as well. We're in a Leinster football semi-final. We have to get behind the lads.

Hurray!!!!