Not at all. Given what he’s gone through with that club and with individual injuries the prospect of making a Munster Club final seemed a long way off. Nowt wrong with a bit of joyful abandon. Fuck the machines.
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Yeah. Probably a case of too many on the line and none of them had space to move to save it.
Doon are Limerick’s best chance of winning a Munster club in the coming years. Na Pairsaigh look to be gone back a lot.
If Doon ever do win a county, there’s not a hope they will win a Munster in the same year.
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No wonder @Fitzy is lying low. Kildavin are only back fielding adult hurling teams last year or two after years of inactivity. They’re making decent enough progress.
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It was on clubber. The crowd they were playing looked good. Kildavin looked like a proper junior team
Ballygunner have now qualified for their 6th Munster Club Final on the trot. 7 in 8 years.
Looking to win it now for third year in a row and 4th in 5 seasons. Would be 5 in a row only for that utterly incredible Borrisileigh win. 6 perhaps only for Covid.
We officially have a Rosenborg situation on our hands now at Provincial level.
That’s happened before. No need to be sensationalist.
Corofin
Crossmacglen
Ballyhale
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Ballygunner have won their last 8 Munster Club games by an aggregate total of nearly 90 points. They are expected to win the final by 10+.
Ballyhale, Corofin and Crossmaglen would at least get brought to ET a bit during their glory days at Provincial level.
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For me that’s ‘careless use of the hurley’ which is a yellow card offence.
If it wasnt, what exactly was he intending to do?
I’d have a bit of sympathy for him if he had hit him with the bas but it looks like it was the heel of the hurl the swipe caught him with, that’s a red card.
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If he did it 20 + yards from linesman or ref he might have got the benefit of the doubt. Linesman had a perfect view - he can have little complaint
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There was probably two red cards punished as yellows in the first half by the referee; one for Clonlara and one for Kiladangan. I’d imagine the ref got the communiqué to clamp down at half time
The edge of the hurl being used would definitely tip it towards red
If there was any hope at all that he could somehow have hit the ball, I’d say a yellow would be fair enough.
It might seem softish but it’s a fair stupid thing to do. Linesman had him gone straight away and he had the best angle tbf.
I also think that Johnny Murphy is on the verge of going from being ‘hated’ to being ‘respected’.
He’s eventually going to be adored.
He was like a pantomime villain there yesterday walking 50 yards into the centre of the field to get Dan O’Meara sent off. He got it right in fairness.
Tin hat on but, just going by club level, he is a decent ref. That Wexford v Dublin game a number of years back where he awarded around 57 frees in the match has distorted people’s views of him. The assessors maybe play on his mind too much at intercounty level.
Certainly at club level, he’s grand. We’ve had him a few times in recent years and he has been fine, no issues whatsoever.
Only saw the last five minutes of the Clonlara match before heading to the second semi final. Kiladangan got two very, very soft frees in a row that brought them level. Both red cards were justified IMO, a belt into the balls and a wild pull. Neither player can have any complaint.
Was surprised by the crowd in TUSGG. Was much bigger than expected, a big neutral crowd there. Ballygunner are just a lean, mean, well drilled, machine. Na P curtailed Dessie and Patrick Fitz as well as they possibly could but were still comfortably second best.
Hard to see Ballygunner being beaten inside and outside Munster from here on.
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