All Ireland Hurling Championship 2018

Davy will have them ready!

Anyone know what the story is with the semi final pairings?

SportsJoe are saying that the winners of the Limerick v Kilkenny/Galway Quarter Final will play Cork. Iā€™m not sure if they are assuming Clare will beat Wexford therefore they must avoid Cork as a repeat pairingā€¦

Itā€™s simple enough Galway win tomorrow we beat the Cats then beat Cork in the semi and beat Galway in the final #itscominghome

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Iā€™m going to need more flares :grimacing:

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Or a bigger boatšŸ˜‰

It avoids provincial final pairings, otherwise open draw.

I wonder will they stick to having the 2 games on Sundayā€¦

Depends.
If Kilkenny lose, I canā€™t see too many of them making the trip to the banks

Is it Defo cork?

Will be Cork or Thurles. Already 4 games in Croke Park next weekend

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Games are fixed for Croke Park.

Cork are pushing very hard for it on the basis of Thurles getting the replay today.

Theyā€™ll almost certainly give the losing Leinster finalist an extra day so that game will be on Sunday. A 6-day turnaround for a losing provincial finalist has been deemed unacceptable by knowledgeable hurling men in past years, and that wonā€™t change. Clare v Wexford on Saturday evening. I expect weā€™ll get 475 speculative posts about it between now and date/venue announcements tomorrow.

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73 from Wexford , 2 from Clare and 400 from the noisy neighbours.

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I think you are being a bit harsh on the Waterford crowd.

Clare v Davy will be some craic.

Davy will spend all week saying ā€œlook, itā€™s not about meā€ while making it all about him.

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I assumed it was a double header ā€¦ Shame.

If Galway lose then the Quarter Final vs Limerick will probably be on Saturday. Unless they try Make a triple header on Sunday in Croke Park maybe?

Even the GGA, wouldnā€™t have two Galway games on in different venues on the same day as bad as the GGA areā€¦

Thereā€™d be war if they made the beaten provincial finalists play six days later.

Canā€™t see it being on Saturday.

If Kilkenny lose today, Iā€™d say it will be a double header in Cork on Sunday.
If Galway lose, Iā€™d say Clare v wexford Saturday afternoon in Cork, Limerick v Galway will become part of a triple header in Croke Park with the two football games

I hope it goes to extra time and they carry on in the same vein as last week, raping and battering each other throughout the duration of the game, with serious injuries incurred by 7 or 8 players on each team. Ambulances and oxygen bottles.

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