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I am assuming you haven't seen the incidents in question.

Against Shamrock Rovers, Cummins was taken down by Horgan, even the Rovers players knew it was a penalty, there was no complaining.

Against Limerick, Cummins was pushed in the box by Dennehy at a corner, with replays showing Dennehy was all over Cummins. Again, no question it was a penalty.

Today, I'm not sure which Bohs defender it was, I think it was Cornwall, must have thought they were Maradonna, as he punched the ball away from a cross, it was as blatant a handball as you'll ever see, and a stone wall penalty.

Was just asking, haven't seen any of them

https://twitter.com/fermoyboy/status/976131857266954240?s=19

Whole f**kin team of patsys atm!

adineen98 wrote: Looking at the FAI rule book there, Caulfield might only get a 1 match suspension after Friday, if going on to the pitch while the match is underway is considered "unsporting conduct". Beattie and Buckley (and probably Hery and Aborah for Waterford) though will surely be looking at a 3 match ban each, and maybe a 6 match ban for taking part in a brawl.

That is certainly one interpretation of what may happen.
Certainly nobody can claim to be innocent in this unseemly matter however it is feasible to suggest that without Caulfield incursion onto the pitch the Ref would have diffused matters ?
It is also somewhat disingenuous of Caulfield to suggest that he merely went on the pitch to retrieve the ball as from the main stand it also appeared that he kicked Hery - certainly it should be interesting watching on Soccer Republic tonight !
Forgive me for saying it but you’d need a heart of stone not to laugh at Caulfield’s fall 😀

Soccer Republic all but confirming that Hery started things on Friday. There was no need for him to knock the ball out of Griffin's hands and then try to dribble away with it. There's time wasting, and there's taking the piss, which is what Hery did. Again, I stress, City aren't innocent in this and I fully accept that, but the suggestions that it was Caulfield that kicked things off is laughable.

On the contrary I feel that Caulfield exacerbated the situation by kicking out at Hery , without his involvement the referee would have diffused the situation , so yes Caulfield will have to shoulder much of the blame.
He should not have been on the field full stop & such being the case the army bargy would not have occurred.
I appreciate the reference to “ Albion “ from a city that was awash with Union Jacks for the Queens visit to the English market ! 😀

Shoco wrote: adineen98 wrote: Soccer Republic all but confirming that Hery started things on Friday. There was no need for him to knock the ball out of Griffin's hands and then try to dribble away with it. There's time wasting, and there's taking the piss, which is what Hery did. Again, I stress, City aren't innocent in this and I fully accept that, but the suggestions that it was Caulfield that kicked things off is laughable. Well he did kick Hery!!

It was only a forwards tackle.

deise316 wrote: adineen98 wrote: Soccer Republic all but confirming that Hery started things on Friday. There was no need for him to knock the ball out of Griffin's hands and then try to dribble away with it. There's time wasting, and there's taking the piss, which is what Hery did. Again, I stress, City aren't innocent in this and I fully accept that, but the suggestions that it was Caulfield that kicked things off is laughable. That's a fairly one eyed view there chief. If Caulfield does not come on to the pitch, the Ref either books Hery for timewasting/taking the ball away from Griffin or adds a few seconds onto the watch. Caulfield doesn't get involved and none of the rest of it happens, no brawl, no mass suspensions. It might be correct to say that he didn't start it, but he is responsible for the escalation of the situation, nobody else.  Be interesting to see what Rennie gets out of it, the footage as clear as day shows his involvement limited to dragging Vigoroux away from the row before he ever got near it, and that was the extent of his involvement. Seemingly Griffin (fair play to him) even told the ref that. Yet something tells me he will end up with the same suspension as Caulfield.

Fair enough, I get what you're saying. I should have made myself clearer in my original post. What I was trying to highlight was the fact that people are, in my opinion anyway, trying to paint Caulfield as the only villain in all of this, most likely due to a dislike for him. Fair enough if someone doesn't like him, that's fine, each to their own, but what's annoying me is the way people are seemingly seeing Caulfield was involved and immediately jumping to conclusions without watching the footage, or they have watched the footage, and are choosing to ignore Hery's actions. I'll fully accept Caulfield was wrong to go on to the pitch and seemingly kick out at Hery, but people must realise that both City and Waterford were in the wrong in this situation.

The best thing that anyone associated with both clubs can do now is try and move on from what happened. If there's any silver lining to this incident, it's that there is now some bite to matches between City and Waterford. June's meeting in the Cross should be a good one.