National Football League Monaghan 0-17 Kildare 0-12 Sun 12 Feb 2012
More ugly scenes with a mass brawl and scuffle just before half time.
Players and team officials got involved with pushing and shoving and punches thrown, with the row continuing into the tunnel.Suprisingly only 3 yellow cards and one red issued for the brawl.
Referee Joe McQuillan consulted with his umpires before brandishing a red card to Kildare defender Brian Flanagan ahead of the start of the second half, while his team-mate Padraig O'Neill and Monaghan duo Dick Clerkin and Dessie Mone both received yellows.
The melee which ensued broke up initially but continued after the half-time whistle in the tunnel.
It was of a serious nature and something which has become far too commonplace in GAA circles.
Some TOUGH opposition for Meath in the Natioanl League.
Monaghan and Kildare have been fined by the GAA's Central Competitions Control Committee (CCCC) after the scuffles after last Sunday's Allianz League game in Clones..
ReplyDeleteThe proposed fines are to be €5,000.
Kildare selector Niall Carew been handed a four-week week suspension after being sent from the line.
Kildare defender Brian Flanagan has been given a one-match ban after receiving a red card.
Monaghan GAA Press Release Monaghan V Kildare
ReplyDeleteWe would like to comment as follows on the current situation regarding Allianz Football League game Monaghan v. Kildare.
CCCC proposed that a €5000 fine be imposed on Choiste Chontae Mhuineacháin CLG. We sought a hearing which was heard last Friday evening (17th) Feb .
The Hearings Committee imposed the following penalty: Forfeit of Home Advantage to the opposition in the next scheduled Allianz Football League home fixture.
We have appealed that decision to the CAC.
This information is to bring you up to date on the situation.
No further comments will be made by us until after this appeal is heard
Thurs 1 Mar 2012
ReplyDeleteLouth will host Monaghan in Drogheda for their Allianz FL Division 2 meeting, after Monaghan's appeal against losing home advantage was turned down.
The match was originally set for Clones but after Monaghan contested the €5,000 fine proposed by the CCCC for their players' part in a melee against Kildare, Monaghan were made to forfeit home advantage in their next scheduled league game.
Monaghan appealed that decision to the Central Appeals Committee but were unsuccessful in their attempt.
Monaghan to take case to DRA
ReplyDeleteMonaghan will "without question" appeal to the DRA over the loss of home venue against Louth.
Eamonn McEneaney's team have been ordered by the CHC to forfeit home advantage for the March 11th derby clash after appealing their original fine following the brawl at half-time in the Kildare game at Clones. Their appeal against this penalty was also unsuccessful. But officials in the Oriel County are not prepared to let the matter rest.
A Press Release posted on the official Monaghan GAA website today reads:
"We would like to comment as follows on the current situation regarding our Appeal to CAC around our Allianz Football League game Monaghan - v - Kildare in Clones.
"This appeal was heard on Wednesday evening 29 Feb 2012 by CAC
"Penalty: Forfeit of Home Advantage to the opposition in the next scheduled Allianz Football League home fixture.
The outcome of this appeal was communicated to us Thursday 1 March 2012 as "unsuccessful".
"On Thursday evening 1 March 2012 Choiste Chontae Mhuineacháin CLG meet as a management team & with stakeholders to discuss this outcome and to decide on next steps.
"Choiste Chontae Mhuineacháin CLG have decided without question to take this case to the DRA.
"No further comments will be made by us until after this process is complete."
http://www.hoganstand.com/Monaghan/ArticleForm.aspx?ID=163159
Eamonn McEneaney insists Monaghan have been denied "natural justice and fair play" by the CHC.
ReplyDeleteThe unprecedented decision of the Central Hearings Committee to insist that the Oriel County play their neighbours Louth at Drogheda on March 11th - instead of Clones - rankles the Monaghan manager who, speaking in the Irish Examiner, suggests that the ruling is not backed up by the necessary legal powers:
"It's not mentioned in the Official Guide, from 7.4 - 7.9 and the defined forms of penalty. Forfeiting home advantage is not in that.
"They have introduced something that has not had a precedent in the GAA for county teams. The national league has its own balance with a number of games at home and away. That natural balance has seriously changed in our regard, with two at home and five away.
McEneaney questions legality of home forfeiture
"That breaches natural justice and fair play. In terms of changing a venue for an intercounty fixture, as far as I was aware, the only people with the remit to do that are Central Council or CCCC.
"If you buy the season ticket, you buy it on the basis of three home and four away matches, not two at home and five away. To me, that's a legal contract and I would say that it has legal implications."
http://www.hoganstand.com/Monaghan/ArticleForm.aspx?ID=163120
Friday, 2 March 2012 12:05
ReplyDeleteThe Monaghan County Board has decided to take their appeal over the loss of home advantage in an upcoming Allianz League game to the Disputes Resolution Authority.
Monaghan are unhappy with the decision to move their next home game
The Board met last night Thurs 1 Mar 2012 to discuss the decision of the Central Appeals Committee to uphold an earlier ruling whichsends Monaghan to Drogheda to face Louth following incidents during the match with Kildare in Clones.
Monaghan were originally fined €5,000 for the incident and have decided on further action, feeling the punishment is too harsh.
Monaghan County Board have been ordered to forfeit home advantage for the weekend’s league fixture with Louth in Drogheda as a result of a fracas during the county’s match with Kildare and a subsequent refusal to accept the CCCC’s recommendation of a €5,000 fine.
ReplyDeleteHaving unsuccessfully challenged on appeal the CHC’s order to forfeit home advantage, Monaghan decided to take a case to the DRA.
It’s likely to be heard tomorrow evening and if so, an interim decision will be posted on the authority’s website on Thursday morning.
Although the match with Louth has been scheduled for Drogheda, the GAA has asked Monaghan to be on standby should their case be successful.
A similar punishment was imposed on the Cork footballers, who are now scheduled to play Laois in O’Moore Park rather than Páirc Uí Rinn.
Although the county persevered with its application for a hearing after learning of Monaghan’s fate and suffered the same one, they decided to accept the decision and didn’t take the matter any further.
Officials in Croke Park are believed to be not unhappy that the punishment will be stress tested by the DRA, as it will clear up any ambiguities for the future.
Monaghan v Louth switched back to Clones as a reward
ReplyDeleteThis Sunday's Allianz Football League game between Monaghan and Louth will take place in Clones after the Disputes Resolutions Authority overturned a previous decision by the Central Hearings Committee to strip them of home advantage.
The round four tie had been moved to Drogheda after Monaghan appealed the €5,000 fine handed down to them by the Central Competitions Control Committee arising from the half-time melee which marred their win over Kildare in Clones last month.
But Monaghan appealed that ruling and, after a five-hour DRA meeting which ran into the early hours of Thursday morning, it proved successful.
A statement from the Monaghan county board confirming the DRA verdict read: "Coiste Chontae Mhuineacháin CLG attended a Disputes Resolutions Authority Tribunal last night regarding the penalty imposed by CHC arising from Monaghan v. Kildare game.
"In the late hours the DRA quashed the CHC decision that the Monaghan v Louth game be played at a Louth venue.
"As a result the fixture as originally scheduled for St. Tiernach's Park Clones will go ahead. The DRA have referred the case back to the CHC to reconsider the penalty."
http://hoganstand.com/Monaghan/ArticleForm.aspx?ID=163609
Monaghan to play behind closed doors ?
ReplyDeleteCounties that engage in 'disruptive conduct' could in future be exposed to a dramatic 'shopping list' of penalties as set out by the Disputes Resolution Authority (DRA) in their judgment delivered on the recent case taken by Monaghan County Board.
A series of 'sentencing guidelines' have been written into the DRA decision paper that include having a league point deducted or being forced to play their next home matches behind closed doors or at neutral venues.
The decision that Monaghan should have to forfeit home advantage for their next home match was last week quashed by a DRA panel, which ruled that Central Hearings Committee had "usurped the expressly reserved scheduling and fixture role of the CCCC (Central Competitions Controls Committee) with respect to the National Football League."
However, in acknowledging the CHC's right to tackle disorderly conduct, the DRA panel did provide a sequence of potential penalties which could clearly have arbitration approval in the future.
For future incidents of disruptive conduct that don't lead to the termination of games, they have set out how the CHC could be within its remit to request future home matches to be played behind closed doors, with only relevant team, health and safety and media personnel permitted.
The DRA panel, which included former Na Fianna (Dublin) club footballer and barrister Aaron Shearer, also suggests that the results of games could be annulled and replayed behind closed doors or at a neutral venue.
And a deduction of one league point is also set out as potential punishment in any future cases that may come up for arbitration.
The DRA does stress that such sentencing guidelines "are very much instructive and indicative and they are certainly not mandatory or prescriptive."
They also recommend that advance notice is given for such a shopping list of penalties.
Monaghan's case has been put back to the CHC for rehearing, though it's unlikely that they will proceed with any of the more extreme measures as set out by the DRA.
Referee Joe McQullan described the altercation that took place just before the interval in Clones last month as a "scuffle."
In their submission, the CHC chairman Liam Keane outlined how their decision to forfeit home advantage was in line with previous "creative and imaginative" sanctions
http://www.independent.ie/sport/gaelic-football/dra-may-order-behind-closed-doors-games-3050329.html