All of them?
Here we go. Rolleyes
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So if cork beat Waterford their as good as through?
If they lose to Clare and Limerick win their last two games Cork are out.
Waterford people are the absolute finest, Iâve never encountered a prick fromdown there
Their hurling team is brutal
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At least in the Leinster Championship, you have four teams chasing three places. In Munster, the three slots are nailed down and there is no competition. After staying competitive enough for a 20-25 year period, Waterford and Clare have reverted to the whipping boy status they occupied for the best part of a century.
Would you think Clare shit themselves yesterday, youâd be a good judge.
They were saying on the Sunday Game that this was Waterfordâs worst run of results since the 1930âs.
Some posters were on here last week suggesting that these 2 were actual all-Ireland contenders 
The natural order over 135 years on Munster hurling is
Cark / Tipp
Limerick
Clare/Waterford
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All 5 of the teams in Munster have appeared in an AI final this decade. Two teams from the Leinster Championship have (*)
(*)Galway of course arenât from Leinster and have been fired in for the sake of the championship.
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Youâve been banging on about this for a while Geoff.
As I said before all five counties in Munster have conested at least two AIFS this century. Cork have 2 , Tipp 3 with Clare and Limerick 1 apiece. Waterford have contested 2 AIFs.
In Leinster Kilkenny have won 11 and the westerners have won one. Take Galway out of the equation in Leinster and no other team bar Offaly in 2000 has contested an All Ireland final.
Nuff said
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Itâs reverting to the natural order. Waterford and Clare would have a much smaller demographic in terms of population, clubs and playing numbers as well. This Round Robin is a sack of shit and like every change to football/hurling championship over last 20 years ultimately favours the stronger, more populated counties.
Dead rubbers didnât come into play last year but likely to do so this year and Clare could be subject to a double whammy there. Tipperary are already in Munster Final so god knows what type of team they field against Limerick in Thurles, a match in which Clare will need Tipperary to win, if Clare lose to Limerick. Clare also hit by having to play absolute whipping boys Waterford first day out when Waterford put in a shift of sorts before downing tools in Thurles.
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Here, here. Back to straight Knock-out & be done with this current scutter structure.
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Thereâs no system perfect⌠Players and fans want more games, the current platform gives you that.
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You could make the same argument about the premiership.
When was the last time and all Ireland wasnât won by a tipperary or a county that has a land border with tipperary ?
96?
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A fella said 20 mins into the tipp clare game that these were best two teams in the country 
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Yesterday we saw 2 more turkey-shoots in Munster and lads would have you believe the province is ultra competitive. Waterford are about at competitive as Carlow at this stage, Clare at the same level as Dublin.
@carryharry will be on later to say that the Tipp v Clare game was a cracker
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Hasnât that being the talk for years. Ape soccer and come up with a âChampions Leagueâ type format, whatever thatâs supposed to mean. What never gets commented on there is the Champions League is eight months of tedium from the time it starts in June up to the knock out stages in February when you can pretty much hand pick 14/15 of the 16 that will like up there.
I always thought the âbackdoorâ system that was in place from 2002-17 was reasonably good. Every county was pretty much guaranteed at least three matches, more cross provincial match ups, a better tempo to it with usually about 3 weeks between matches for counties. This is like an U14 blitz, war of attrition, playing every week in mid May and June, injuries piling up, a war of attrition more so than an examination of hurling skills. 22 matches crammed into about 6 weeks by 30 June and after that for July/August and early September (which is now vacated) only 5 matches of any consequence left in the best time of the year for hurling. Getting the decks cleared for July and August for a feast of Not so Super 8 Gaelic Football.
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