All-Ireland Hurling Championship 2019***

@Fagan_ODowd is correct here - if you ponied up €200 at the start of the year for an intercounty season ticket incorporating the club plus option you are guaranteed an All-Ireland final ticket if your county gets there, irrespective of how many intercounty games you went to.

I got the club plus option one year. Had war at the gate of a club match in Kilmallock with one of those Munster council pricks who go around with the ticketing van. Had a full blown argument to him explaining that it was for club games too. Eventually he relented but I never got the club plus option again. Just get the club season ticket off the county board now. At least you know they are guaranteed to receive the money in full. I’d say Croke Park skim off a nice percentage for themselves out of those club plus tickets.

Been saying it for years - the intercounty season ticket is fantastic value if you go to most games. All the hassle for the final last August was removed.

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Definitely dont

Furthermore the time we got to the All Ireland the season ticket holders had the best seats in the house. Middle of the lower deck Cusack.

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Has Adrian Mullen or any of the younger Ballyhale contingent been called up by Kilkenny?

Sky Hurling games for this year:

Kilkenny v Dublin (Leinster SHC), Saturday, 11 May

Cork v Waterford (Munster SHC), Saturday, 8 June

Leinster Hurling Championship (Leinster SHC) x2**, Saturday, 15 June

All Ireland Hurling Semi Final, Saturday, 27 July

All Ireland Hurling Semi Final, Sunday, 28 July

All Ireland Hurling Final, Sunday, 18 August

Both Mullens and Evan Shefflin afaik.

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The hurling mad vicars in the shires won’t get to see the all Ireland champions .

Duignams auld man will keel over when he sees 4 Leinster matches scheduled

Good enough to start this year definitely.

Hurling refs for championship 2019

MacCarthy & McDonagh Hurling:

Sean Cleere (Kilkenny)

Colum Cunning (Antrim)

Liam Gordon (Galway)

Fergal Horgan (Tipperary)

John Keenan (Wicklow)

Alan Kelly (Galway)

Colm Lyons (Cork)

Cathal McAllister (Cork)

Rory McGann (Clare)

Patrick Murphy (Carlow)

Johnny Murphy (Limerick)

Paud O’Dwyer (Carlow)

James Owens (Wexford)

Johnny Ryan (Tipperary)

Ring/Rackard/Meagher Hurling:

Kevin Brady (Louth)

James Clarke (Cavan)

James Connors (Donegal)

Aiden Ferguson (Fermanagh)

Thomas Gleeson (Dublin)

Justin Heffernan (Wexford)

David Hughes (Carlow)

Shane Hynes (Galway)

Gearoid McGrath (Wexford)

Chris Mooney (Dublin)

Mick Murtagh (Westmeath)

Sean Stack (Dublin)

Nathan Wall (Cork)

Thomas Walsh (Waterford)

I’d be wary of that Antrim lad

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Never heard of that Liam Gordon chap.

Did he get a few games in 1A or 1B of the league?

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Was thinking the same, he’s the one name there I haven’t heard of before.

Resisting the urge to setup a Top 3 referees thread…

Justin Hefferan awarded about a thousand frees in a 60 (sixty) minute game between the Harriers and Martins in the Wexford championship last weekend. Chin pointed fifteen (15) frees and the Harriers still lost by 8 (eight). :laughing:

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Diarmuid Kirwan was on the MacCarthy panel last year. He appears to have been the only one dropped.

How Johnny Ryan is still allowed hold a whistle escapes me.

EDIT - Apart from James McGrath who stormed off in a big strop.

That Patrick Murphy chap from Carlow is awful

There’s a Cavan man there

James McGrath is a right little queen.

He’s from the real home of hurling, Killimor. Another great milestone in our 150 year journey.
http://www.killimorrules150.ie/

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