Earlier this year the advantage rule was changed and what Fergal was doing contradicted it. If more referees take these matters into their own hands, there is going to be confusion

Unfortunately for Saturday’s referee, Conor Lane, such measurements in milliseconds produced the All-Ireland semi-final’s biggest talking point.

Apart from one or two things, John Keenan had close to the perfect game on Saturday.

Saturday provided another example of how a referee can be riding high for so long in a game only to be brought crashing down to earth by a split-second decision.

When there are two dressing rooms on each side at Croke Park, and bearing in mind the Covid situation, why isn’t one team coming out from under the Cusack Stand?

It was a weekend of fine margins from a refereeing perspective. You might say “what’s new” but it was a hurling provincial final weekend and at least one decision that went the way of Limerick proved to be telling.

When referees convened last Thursday, I was hopeful some common sense would prevail

I would make a calculated guess and suggest James Owens was only following the penalty/sin bin interpretation he was given in the referees’ group

It will be interesting to see if there is any feedback from the referees development committee about Colm’s decision because if this is going to be an example of what to do in such a situation then we’re going to run into huge problems

The average amount of frees in a game would be around 25 to 30. On Saturday, the number in Mullingar was 38 and 34 in Limerick