People had to be removed from the 17s all Ireland the abuse got so bad.
They’re some shower.
What really grinds my gears of late in club games, is players giving it the big licks when their teammate kicks a point. Roaring like lepjacks as it sails over. Mostly prevalent in football I find. Its very strange behaviour.
When we went up to the aisf against Tyrone (lost after a brilliant first half) in the mid nineties, we asked a garda could we go in the hill.
“You could”, he said “but I wouldn’t if I was ye” (it being full of pissed up tyronies).
We went to the canal end.
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Cork 8/11 Clare 6/4
Limerick were bet. Blaming boo boys won’t change it. Time to move on.
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Cork are priced up on one match. Clare are overpriced.
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I’m a big fan of Horgan, but on this occasion I don’t believe he did. Snap decision though, and I’m well aware it’s easy from the couch.
Clare will relish it. All the talk is about Cork now. Cork will need to be as good as Sunday to win it.
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Hopefully a handful from Clare decide it’s worth attending at least.
A few observations on the overnight posts:
People are more badly behaved in crowds over recent years. I’ve noticed it with our own level of bandwagoners, most of whom wouldn’t recognise half the team with their helmets. A lot of it is down to drink. I’ve said before that the demise of a decent curtain-raiser before games has led to numerous health and safety issues. With a minor or intermediate game you’d have 50-60% of the crowd in place by the second half of it.
Take this year’s Munster Final, for example. Played at 4pm on a day when there was no other competing event and between 2 counties with easy train access to the venue. People have all day to get tanked up and rush the gates 10 or 15 minutes before throw-in. Why wasn’t the game fixed for 2pm? With all respect to camogie nobody bar the small following of whatever two teams are playing wants to watch it. The only ground I went into early this year was Ennis because it was unreserved seating and I never drink before games.
The rise in booing is a by-product of the above. All counties are at it. All counties have their event junkies too.
On the paying into the terrace issue I’m reminded of a friend of mine from Clare who started with the Civil Service in Dublin around the late70’s/early 80’s. It was the old Croke Park and he was told by a colleague to knock on a blue timber door near the corner of the old Hogan Stand and have a fiver handy. He reckons he saw about 10 hurling and football All-Irelands this way and never had a ticket. The ould Dub on the door used make a fortune. The old Hogan had room to stand behind the last row of seats on either tier and he’d tip up there and count all the others standing their having paid the fiver to yer man.
Finally, is this the first time in history that 2 teams who have already been beaten twice in the championship are meeting in an All-Ireland hurling final?
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It’s all kids though. Sure the Carkies booed Hego and Ciano in the league last year.
I actually think it’s a good watch, better and better. Id always go to the minor game though no matter who was playing. Saw a couple of brilliant games.
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Ah lovely…some of @thelimericks took their beating…some who believed hurling was born in 2018 didn’t
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Too easy 
You thought it was 50/30 in favourvof cork? Looked a lot more even from my vantage in the stadium. Always thought the cork fans were sound as a group. The cork contingent on here are the finest too, probably the fewest amount of headbangers too.
You’re badly rattled kid…and have been won lose or draw for ye…take a chill pill
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I cant make sense of that mess.
Dublin v Galway 1983 was the last pay at the gate final, all finals were all-ticket from 1984 on. The 1977 football final between Dublin and Armagh was the first all-ticket final.
In finals from then on counties may have been given some tickets for the other terrace (I recall the press talking about Donegal and Down getting some Hill 16 tickets in 1992 and 1994) but in practice each participating senior county had a designated terrace. Frantic swapping of Hill and Canal tickets would go on in Barry’s Hotel etc. in the hours beforehand to get on your county’s designated terrace. Each county in the minor would be given a smaller amount of tickets for a designated terrace. The Canal End had a bigger capacity so you’d always get some stragglers from the county that “had” the Hill, ie. I watched the 1992 football final from the Canal End.
Cork were usually given the Hill for hurling finals but not always for football. Ulster counties would always be given the Hill for football final unless they were playing Dublin. Kilkenny would always get the Canal.
In hurling my recollection was:
1986 Cork got the Hill and Galway the Canal
1987 Galway Hill Kilkenny Canal
1988 Tipp Hill Galway Canal
1989 Antrim Hill Tipp Canal
1990 Cork Hill Galway Canal
1991 Tipp Hill Kilkenny Canal
1992 Cork/Waterford Hill Kilkenny/Galway Canal
1993 Galway Hill Kilkenny Canal
1994 Offaly Hill Limerick Canal
1995 Offaly Hill Clare Canal
1996 Wexford Hill Limerick Canal
1997 Clare Hill Tipp Canal
1998 Offaly Hill Kilkenny Canal
Football
1986 Tyrone Hill Kerry Canal
1987 Meath Hill Cork Canal
1988 Meath Hill Cork Canal
1989 Cork Hill Mayo Canal
1990 Cork Hill Meath Canal
1991 Down Hill Meath Canal
1992 Dublin/Meath Hill Donegal/Armagh Canal
1993 Derry/Meath Hill Cork Canal
1994 Dublin Hill Down/Galway Canal
1995 Dublin/Westmeath Hill Tyrone/Derry Canal
1996 Meath Hill Mayo Canal
1997 Mayo Hill Kerry Canal
1998 Kildare Hill Galway Canal
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I think this was the other way around
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By God you’re right. Kilkenny being given the Hill for a final is a fairly blowing idea.