Conor McKeown

I admire referees when they do things like that to get the right decision.

I remember in Crow Park at a match a couple of years ago, and I can't remember, I can't even remember who the ref was.

And there was an incident that had just happened and the referee went in to talk to the umpire, the umpire behind the goals at the canal end.

And he was discussing what had happened.

And just as he did, I could see the umpire, and you can see it back in the footage, the umpire said, keep talking to me there, it's coming up on the screen.

And they have no facility to consult the screen.

But once he saw it, he said, yeah, that's right.

And he gave him the right information.

And like, he wasn't entitled to do that.

I'm sure there's somebody with a...

Green Pen and Crowe Park who kind of gave him a bad mark for that.

But arriving at the right decision is always the best thing to do.

So there's parts of that that I'm in strong agreement with, particularly the entertainment aspect of it, inverted commas, does nothing for me ever.

And I don't think it does anything for the occasions.

I remember last year going down to the Munster Championship game between Cork and Tip in Parc y Cibh.

Do you remember the one where... Darren McCarthy?

Darren McCarthy got sent off and Cork ran out by 16 points.

But they got the Frank and Walters in, you know, and obviously their song is that song that all the Cork fans have been singing.

after all after all and give us a bar there it's a good song but the problem there is like they have to start 45 minutes or whatever before the match when nobody's in the ground and anybody who is in the ground is sort of a die hard and they end up shuffling off after about three songs and there was no even recognition from the crowd

So it doesn't work.