Think Limerick dual fans got similarly screwed for the same fixture last year?
Yeah, they won after extra time up in Longford in football but were on at 7pm in Thurles so could have made it back if they wanted. We’ll be the “curtain raiser” in any double header, no doubt. I’d prefer not to play in Thurles and would like a standalone fixture with a 7pm throw in on Leinster turf.
Perhaps if Tipp win, Waterford will object to the cunts getting home advantage. Not sure if there is some provision saying they should be played at a neutral venue? That would likely be Cork. Thurles would seem like the natural venue for Wexford-Clare regardless, though perhaps it might be 7pm if not part of a double header.
There is no provision for these games to be played at a neutral venue, it is at the discretion of the Central Council. 2 years ago there was a double headerin phase three of Limerick v Laois and Galway v Cork in the Gaelic Grounds
[quote=“carryharry, post: 795938, member: 1517”]Willie O’Connor tickling a few Ribs.
http://www.irishexaminer.com/sport/gaa/hurling/oconnor-tipp-lack-bottle-and-shefflin-the-man-to-make-them-pay-235843.html#.UdP1C1u2xgg.twitter[/quote]
That’s Eddie. Willie got the bigger share of the brainpower and classier hurling skill in the family. Eddie has always been a bit of a loose cannon. The memory of him firing a sliotar at that joyless hoor, Cregan, on the sideline still cheers me up.
Phase 3 matches have always been at neutral venues in the past since the current system was introduced in 2008. Nowlan Park again looks the best venue if it was a Tipp-Waterford clash and could also hold a Wexford-Clare clash as a double-header.
Those teams did play a double header in phase 3 in 2009 alright but it was in Thurles. Cork v Galway in Limerick in 2011 was a double-header with the Limerick footballers with Limerick hurlers playing Antrim in Parnell Park.
[quote=“ChocolateMice, post: 796090, member: 168”][FONT=Times New Roman]Sir, – My sense of elation on Saturday night in O’Moore Park, as the Dublin hurlers defeated Kilkenny in the Leinster championship, is difficult to put into words. Beside me was my father who was six years of age the last time Dublin achieved such a feat. Gaels up and down the country will appreciate that the feeling of sheer wonder at such a powerful Dublin performance stems not from the fact that we won a Leinster semi-final but that we out-played and out-fought what is almost certainly the greatest team in the history of the game.[/FONT]
[FONT=Times New Roman]However, as I walked around the hallowed turf after the match, mingling with supporters from both sides exhibiting shock and disbelief for very different reasons, I was taken aback by a sight that will linger in my memory as long as the Dublin victory.[/FONT]
[FONT=Times New Roman]There, in the middle of the field, some 10 minutes after the final whistle, stood Tommy Walsh of Kilkenny – still glistening with sweat in the warm evening sun, his jersey marked with splashes of blood; possibly his own, possibly not. He was surrounded by children decked both in sky blue and black and amber. He signed every single jersey and match programme. He posed for every single photograph. This man is not accustomed to the bitter of taste of defeat. This living legend who has garnered a record nine all-star awards in a row and won six all-Ireland titles and will surely see more of both, has never before been humbled at such an early stage of the championship. And yet, there he stood, as I watched in awe for a further 10 minutes, putting his arm around every youngster that was ushered before him by an eager parent and patiently waiting as yet another camera phone was pointed at him by an outstretched arm.[/FONT]
[FONT=Times New Roman]What can I say? For anyone who wonders what is special and unique about the GAA, who wonders what makes it the finest organisation in this country with nothing even remotely like it in the rest of the world, who occasionally, like myself, unthinkingly takes for granted its place at the heart of communities up and down the island, I give you Tommy Walsh – the embodiment of the spirit of the GAA and, for that matter, what might just be great about the people of this country.[/FONT]
[FONT=Times New Roman]Yours, etc,[/FONT]
[FONT=Times New Roman]PADDY MONAHAN,[/FONT]
[FONT=Times New Roman]Clancarthy Road,[/FONT]
[FONT=Times New Roman]Donnycarney, Dublin 5.[/FONT]
[FONT=Times New Roman](Via The Irish Times)[/FONT][/quote]
I thought you were from limerick.
Would ye really rather going to that shithole in Cork than Thurles to watch a game
As a Corkman, the honest answer is no.
Have manners ya cunt
the mixer walsh
Any word on the KK team for Saturday evening?
Very little talk about this game. A lot of talk about Geroid Ryan starting for Tipperary.
Seriously quiet build up to the Leinster final also CH.
Just booked the train for sunday 
A great weekends hurling ahead.
[quote=“Kinvara’s Passion, post: 796557, member: 686”]Seriously quiet build up to the Leinster final also CH.
Just booked the train for sunday
A great weekends hurling ahead.[/quote]
I think the Leinster final has been over looked because of the KK/Tipp match. Very little discussion about it.
Nothing against Dublin mate… Come 6pm, I just wanna see that gimpish smirk washed off Dalo’s face.
Galway will win at their ease Sunday.
Well come 6pm I want to see Galway running off to nearest supermacs, with their tails between legs, crying into their supermacs after the hiding that Dublin will have given them.
Right chaps, call it now, KK or Tipp?
I’ll go with Tipp.
[quote=“Mark Renton, post: 796563, member: 1796”]Right chaps, call it now, KK or Tipp?
I’ll go with Tipp.[/quote]
KK for me.
I fancy Tipp by 4+ points.
Galway by 6+ points.
Tipp by 8