Tyrone GAA criticised for seemingly petty tweet during Carlow victory

Either a poor choice of words or a deliberate dig

Ben Kiely

This wasn’t the best look for Tyrone GAA.

Tyrone started slowly at Netwatch Cullen Park on Saturday. However, once they got going, they clearly had Carlow’s number. The O’Neill County scored a comfortable 3-14 to 1-10 victory over the Scallion Eaters in the round 2 qualifier.

The Carlow attack was heavily dependant on set-pieces. Thier top marksman for the day being Paul Broderick backs this claim up. He bagged himself five points, four of which came from frees.

It was Broderick who was the subject of a somewhat controversial tweet from Tyrone GAA’s Twitter account during their commentary of the game. The tweet may not have seemed too bad at first glance, but when you look at every other time Broderick’s name was mentioned in the Twitter commentary, the choice of words didn’t appear to be a coincidence.

So let’s have a look through every time Broderick was mentioned during the game before we get to THAT tweet.

The first free

They were never going to give much detail. This isn’t the Carlow GAA Twitter account.

Carlow point from Paul Broderick Free 3 mins

— Tyrone GAA (@TyroneGAALive) June 23, 2018

Fires wide from play

Again, minimal detail, which is to be expected.

Paul Broderick with Carlows first wide 6 mins

— Tyrone GAA (@TyroneGAALive) June 23, 2018

Giving credit where it’s due

Some feats are too impressive to ignore.

Paul Broderick sends over a massive free from 50 mtrs out to leave the score Carlow 1-3 Tyrone 0-9 5 mins gone

— Tyrone GAA (@TyroneGAALive) June 23, 2018

Another point

Standard enough.

Free in to Carlow Paul Broderick sends his effort over 14 mins gone in the second half,

— Tyrone GAA (@TyroneGAALive) June 23, 2018

Again

Nothing out of the ordinary here.

Free in to Carlow 21 mins by Paul Broderick sails over the bar to leave scores Carlow 1-5 Tyrone 1-13

— Tyrone GAA (@TyroneGAALive) June 23, 2018

The point from play

There may have been some confusion over his overall tally at this stage.

Point to Carlow Paul Broderick send over his 6th point of the game and his first from play to leave Carlow 1-7 Tyrone 2-13

— Tyrone GAA (@TyroneGAALive) June 23, 2018

The final free

All caps for the final score. A solid win. They’re more than entitled to celebrate.

Last piece of the action Paul Broderick sends over a CARLOW FREE TO LEAVE THE FINAL SCORE CARLOW 1-10 Tyrone 3-14

— Tyrone GAA (@TyroneGAALive) June 23, 2018

Now time for the tweet that upset a few people. Have a look and see if you can spot what folks took issue with. It should be fairly obvious.

The decision to refer to Broderick as a ‘free kick expert,’ in the first tweet mentioning him missing a free kick didn’t sit well with a lot of fans. They let their voices be heard in the replies.

Awful tweet ??

— Gilly (@DJgilly10) June 23, 2018

Miaow

— Kevin McAnena (@KevinMcAnena) June 23, 2018

Poor call there, winning easy hardly any call for that snide swipe. Hopefully learn from it and cop on in future

— John green (@Madramor80) June 23, 2018