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Published 09:51 23 Jan 2019 GMT
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Tipp have over-committed, the Banner have them on the run.
The ball comes to John Conlon's wing and every Clare head in Semple Stadium smells blood now. Closed down by two Tipp defenders, he bullocks one out of his way but Ronan Maher is up on him.
Podge Collins gallops off the shoulder roaring, with clean, green acres open in front of him and Conlon knows that if he puts it out in front of Podge, the goal is on.
It's a matter of milliseconds now in the fastest field game on earth.
Just in time Conlon releases the ball into Collins' path and he hares through to set up a goal. Clare go on to win the game.
Conlon threw that ball. In a slow-mo replay, it's clear as day.
But not one Tipperary supporter or player was complaining about it that day. The referee didn't notice it either, how could he have?
The sliotar, the game was moving too quick and it wouldn't even have mattered if he was told to 'clamp down' on the throw balls in a meeting before the game, because he just wouldn't have seen it anyway.
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Watch that Conlon throw here.
So on Tuesday, the Referee's Development Chairperson Willie Barrett told RTÉ that it is, from now on, within referees' remit to "eradicate" that from our game now.
Just day's after football's handpass rule went to the scrap yard, this discussion seems a little bit pointless because throw balls are going to keep on happening in hurling and though referees might occasionally blow for them - rightly or wrongly - the increased pressure is only going to lead to them becoming too fussy about it, leading to more frees on the other side of it and slowing the game down.
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