'Rasher' lets fly at black card January 30, 2014





Pat preferred when gaelic football was a man's game. Pat preferred when gaelic football was a man's game.

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Wicklow football legend Pat 'Rasher' Roche is no fan of the new rules.The former Garden County full back, who was last week inducted into the Wicklow GAA Hall of Fame, preferred when gaelic football was a man's game:"Ah, jaysus, it's all changed now," he notes in The Wicklow People. "Hand passing, yellow cards ... mother of God! And the black card? Go away outta that!"Ah, it's ridiculous, the black card, shocking yoke. But it's not the players' fault; I mean it's the fellas that are over it. They're ruining the game; they've destroyed it."They're handpassing all the time now. I went to a match there not too long ago and there was nine handpasses and they never even left the full-back line. I walked out. Couldn't watch that."