All-Ireland Hurling Championship 2019***

myboyblue · June 13, 2019, 9:10am

flattythehurdler:

“galway were really really mean weren’t they jj?”
“ah they were, so they were, look we all like manly hurling and no cards, and Paul Murphy was dead right to pull down any galway lad with half a chance of a goal, but galway were cynical today, and most of them should have been sent off and an extra half hour played, or until kilkenny won, and referees need to be looking at this”
“and pawrig mannion jj, he should have been sent off for grabbing a lads hand very roughly, shouldn’t he jj. Referees need to be watching carefully for anyone from galway doing this in any future games, and sending them off if they’re from galway, don’t they jj? "
Shure lookit I spose we all like manly hurling, and that’s just good defending if a kilkenny lad did it, but galway doing it is ruining the game. Now I hate to see cards in any game, but let’s face it, he should have had a red card and a lengthy ban. Someone’s going to break a nail with that carry on”
“and aidan harte jj, he was reeeeelly reeeeelly rough, and he got ger aylward sent off. He kicked him over deliberately, I think just before daithi Burke tried to kill an innocent kilkenny player with a hurl, or maybe just after that, and then wrapped poor aylwards arms around him and forced him to wrestle on the ground. We just can’t have that from galway can we jj? "
" A shure look it’s a many game, and ha ha, shure I’d know about that, ha ha, but you can’t have lads not from kilkenny ruining the game and really that was a straight red for harte, and aylward should have had his yellow rescinded as galway aren’t from leinster really anyway shure lookit”
“and John Hanbury, jj, he cynically pulled down a kilkenny player near the goal, didn’t he jj. Referees need to be watching out for galway players doing this against kilkenny in any and all future games, don’t they jj, or really, they shouldn’t be refereeing should they jj? "
" Well look, I’d always say as a defender that it’s just good manly defending, and Paul Murphy was blackguarded by the referee as he only done good defending five times, but Hanbury has no place in the game doing it. A straight red and back to connacht for good is about the only sanction, and lookit, kilkenny do be looking at these things, and any ref that sends a kilkenny lad off for only doing it a few times needs to make sure that galway are heavily and regularly penalised in the future, if he ever wants to referee a championship match outside of Lancashire in the future”
"and jj, that’s only a few things, isn’t it jj. Galway are ruining the game with their cynical play and not being from kilkenny aren’t they jj, and the referees need to make sure they are watching closely and stop them going any further in the championship don’t they jj? "
" Well lookit, we all like manly hurling, and a but of Cody time where needed, and there’s no excuses from kilkenny here, none whatsoever, we’ll take our beating, congratulate galway, and move on, but the galway players are nothing but cynical thugs, who goaded and cheated Paul Murphy into those five bits of good manly defending, and got him sent off, and they have no place in the game with their cynical fouling. Far be it from me to suggest it, but John Hanbury should be banned for life unless galway have someone better to replace him. And Kilkenny were about to win by seven goals when the ref blew up before we said he could. But shure lookit, we’ll move on to the next day (unlike the ref ha ha)
“well, in the interests of objectivity as a journalist jj, I couldn’t agree more”

Flatty has lost it.

anon78624367 · June 13, 2019, 9:13am

You’ve to have it to lose it

binkybarnes · June 13, 2019, 9:32am

He got cynically tripped by Harte and retaliated by pushing and got sent off on a second yellow. I’ll be very surprised if the red card is not rescinded.

mikehunt · June 13, 2019, 9:35am

Is retaliation not at least a yellow card offence?

anon61878697 · June 13, 2019, 9:38am

Hard not to agree with this really…

anon61878697 · June 13, 2019, 9:41am

Cork’s All Ireland to lose you’d have to say

Esso_Oil · June 13, 2019, 9:44am

In fairness it would be a victory for pure hurling and not the pseudo-football antics of the other contenders

Piles_Hussain · June 13, 2019, 9:44am

They need to find a full back line

Aristotle · June 13, 2019, 9:46am

“Currently Cork and Tipp remain the two teams most likely to be competing for the All-Ireland title”.

anon61878697 · June 13, 2019, 9:49am

Yeah - but Cork have the best midfield pairing in the country right now in Cooper and Fitzgibbon …

Bandage · June 13, 2019, 9:51am

Conor Whelan and Jason Flynn should both have received straight red cards against Wexford, but we didn’t complain about it.

glasagusban · June 13, 2019, 9:55am

They’re not the greatest full back line but they’re not too bad at all. Most teams will think they can exploit aspects of the full back lines of any of the opposition left.

After the semi final last year everyone said cork need to go away and find 2-3 quality subs to progress further. They’ve done that now, still to settle on their best team too I think.

Ashman · June 13, 2019, 9:59am

He is the greatest defender without a doubt .

binkybarnes · June 13, 2019, 10:10am

It depends on what form the retaliation takes. If he kicked Harte in the bollox that would be a red card offence. If he tripped Harte that would be a yellow card. But he just pushed Harte which is not a yellow card offence. Hence he was hard done by and will most likely have the card rescinded,

mikehunt · June 13, 2019, 10:29am

Pushing and pulling to the ground is a yellow card offence.

Julio_Geordio · June 13, 2019, 10:34am

Listened to the second Derek and Lar podcast there, McGrath is some bore. Twisting everything back to himself.
Lar is actually an interesting enough listen for an insight into Sheedy etc.

I also listened to Dalo’s podcast with Quirke yesterday (it’s fairly quiet in the office at the moment give me a break), literally like a load of lads in the pub after downing 5 or 6 pints each, throwing out cliche after cliche. It’s entertaining enough to be fair, but no insight whatsoever.

anon61878697 · June 13, 2019, 10:38am

Yeah, there’s no structure to the Daly one at all… lads having a chat is grand, but at least have central topic – they just seemed to drift around the place without answering anything.

Julio_Geordio · June 13, 2019, 10:39am

There’s little to no preparation that goes into it

anon61878697 · June 13, 2019, 10:41am

That’s why Wooly moved to a Tuesday - Examiner record Monday morning - As Daly said himself, he didnt have time to have a good chat about the game in a pub yet.

Julio_Geordio · June 13, 2019, 10:42am

Probably getting a few hundred quid to have a laugh for an hour with a few mates. And he dead right