This is the best one I’ve seen so far
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[quote=“Julio Geordio, post: 703387”]This is the best one I’ve seen so far
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Different class. 
Tis one thing I always found gas over there, the amount of abuse and vitriol directed at the likes of Sean Og and Joe Canning for doing endorsements and getting their mugs on TV and the paper used to be cruel over there. As soon as Lar started this craic around 2009 sure he was a great fella out making a few quid for himself. I mentioned the double standard of it all a few times over there but it would always be played down and they would all be saying sure there is a recession on and Lar is dead right, the other two lads were still only cunts though
[quote=“chewy louie, post: 703386”] Dye runs in blue and gold
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Tuesday, August 21, 2012[/size][/font]
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One word to sum up Sunday’s events in Croke Park?[/size][/font]
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Sad. Sad on so many levels.
Sad that a team that raised attacking play to such an intoxicating, imaginative new high in the 2010 All-Ireland final were reduced to such myopic, boneheaded vapidity.
Sad that the most electric forward in the game was sent out not to terrorise but to defend.
Sad that the same forward was seen to celebrate when his dance partner of choice was yellow-carded.
And sad, though naturally this is their sadness only, that what might have been Tipperary’s first golden era in half a century has turned to ashes and gall. Those last two Munster titles are now empty baubles.
Four-in-a-rows, eh? Tricky things. Not quite as easy to achieve as the more excitable souls in the homes of Tipperary imagined following the 2010 triumph.
Look at some of the rocks on whom the new empire was to be built. Brendan Maher, a shadow on Sunday of the player who came within an ace of the Hurler of the Year award two seasons ago.
Noel McGrath, for all his gifts, again unable to take possession of a big match. Even two in a rows aren’t as straightforward as they may have appeared.
In retrospect the last two league meetings of the counties, both of which were won by Kilkenny, mattered.
Particularly last February’s encounter at Nowlan Park when the visitors, albeit understrength, succumbed without a whimper. What we do in the spring does echo in August and September.
On an afternoon that raised an interesting new existential question — is a forward really a forward if he spends the game trying to mark a defender? — it wasn’t so much that Tipp lost as how they lost. It wasn’t that they failed to put enough scores on the board as that one of their attacking objectives entailed not putting scores on the board. The Italians at their most catenaccio-obsessed, and Jim McGuinness, would have been awestruck.
At the risk of coming over all Eamon Dunphy on it, this was moral cowardice writ large: a strong accusation to make of people in an amateur game, yet true nonetheless. If Declan Ryan wanted to reduce Tommy Walsh to onlooker status, all he had to do was tell his defenders to keep lamping the ball down the opposite wing.
And what was with the wheeze of putting Bonner Maher – a one-trick pony, perhaps, but what a trick and what a selfless worker – at full-forward?
Down the generations they made a virtue of being lean and hungry, stern and uncompromising, manly and astringent, hip to hip and shoulder to shoulder, gothic rather than baroque. On Sunday they were none of those things. Tipp for the hurlers, Kilkenny for the men. John Doyle must have been gyrating in his grave.
What’s more, there was a meanness of spirit about them that was as surprising as it was misplaced. Had they not seen what happened to Waterford’s attempts to rile the beast in 2008? We said here on Saturday that Kilkenny are not in the habit of bringing knives to gunfights; on Sunday they went the whole hog and brought a bazooka. Cue collapse of blue and gold party.
As an aside, The Sunday Game production team could do worse than treat themselves to a look in the mirror after the manner in which Pádraic Maher’s antics were airbrushed out of the day’s history.
Had Tommy Walsh done what Maher did, the panel would have been demanding his summary execution and/or transportation to Van Diemen’s Land.
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Wonderful piece, nail firml hit on head.
Ah jaysus. Tommy wore brown shoes with a grey suit.
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That’s exactly what I noticed first.
This is an epic fallout in fairness. Old players up in arms, fellas on twitter defending it all, Lar the poor fella defending himself and the tactics.
It must be said though, Walsh was nit in the game in first half and walked off with a very bad demeanor at HT, thats about all that’s true though.
KK have 4 genuine all time greats on their side, maybe 5, another 5 excellent hurlers and another 4 very good players, how they fcuk could somebody think by stopping tommy they could stop KK, brainless clown
I thought wearing brown shoes with a grey suit was acceptable and/or the norm?
+1 wouldn’t be a fan of Grey suits but I think they look shite with black shoes.
I suppose it’s understandable, but the Corbett pursuing Walsh thing is getting way too much attention on a day where Tipp went into total meltdown. It was an odd sight certainly, and a little bit left-field as far as tactics go, but it was far from a decisive factor in determining the result of the game. Tipp have far more serious problems to worry about.
cummins curran o mahony and shane mcgrath are far bigger concerns.
Its not as simple as that either WTB.
I would suggest the vast majority of players had no trust in the Ryan regime. Reminds me of Galway under McIntyre. Under a new management you could see a different outfit with a quick turnaround.
Imagine if Noel McGrath put the work in next winter that Canning is after putting in last winter?
The bizarre thing about Declan Ryan is that he set out to stop the team doing the one thing they were better at than everyone else, playing accurate stick passes from defence to attack. The 60 seconds in the lead up to taggy’s goal summed up the game on Sunday. Tipp launching high ball down the field that they couldn’t win, Kilkenny launching high ball forward that they could. Nobody beats Kilkenny at that game, nobody even lives with them. And it’s hard to know if it was idealism, arrogance, or sheer stupidity that led Tipperary into that trap.
The worst thing that happened to them was the sackful of goals they got in last year’s Munster championship from this approach. Against Cork, Clare, and Waterford, they dragged defenders around the field and made hay from long deliveries landing in open country. But even against Dublin in the semi-final, they surely could see that it was wishful thinking to believe they’d get goals that easy when it really counted.
Their defenders (if there are any left) might argue that they were trying to develop a hybrid approach, but the trouble is, once you introduce the notion of a target man into any team, you create the tendency for players and management to plump for the easy option and call for lads to ‘drive it to fuck’. As a consequence the shorter game degrades and it was desperate to see how much of the sharpness of touch of 09/10 was gone yesterday, and how it didn’t survive Kilkenny’s savagery like it did back then.
Tipperary did actually play plenty of good hurling under Ryan and Dunne, but they bet the farm on being able to play direct against Kilkenny, and they lost everything because of it. Sunday’s failure will follow those two lads around for the rest of their days.
More than acceptable, very much the norm. Belt must match up though, as always…
Brilliant. :lol: :lol: :lol: 
lar should be shot after his performance last sunday. im so outraged by it that it has forced me back to the forum. ye can all blame lar