Welcome to the big leagues Dan jnr.
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A most disheartening experience but hardly a surprise seeing the way that particular contingent carry themselves, even on this board. You get the sense with their baying mob mentality they are never far away from one of them chucking a can of Druids in your direction Iâm surprised erswhile forumites like @balbec and @Bod95 associate themselves with these yahoos if Iâm being honest with you
Easy know itâs a slow Sunday with no sport on.
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A lad who filled the togs at a marathon was never going to hack the cauldron of a Munster hurling championship match.
Shouldnât have put his âsonâ through that experience.
Needs to take him back to Preston or Tottenham Hotspur, depending on whichever club heâs supporting this week.
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Go back to sleep
Youâll get a certain element like that following most county teams. Itâs essentially the crowd youâd see in and around a courthouse in any provincial town up and down the country when the District Court is sitting and dealing with public order offences and petty crime.
Limerick do seem to have a particularly large cohort of that yobbish element going to their matches of late.
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Iâd miss most of the match pissing
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It is a tough city kid, this really is what makes us what we are and most Limerick lads from the city would not change it. The fact is the atmosphere that Saturday evening was brilliant due to the huge Limerick fanbase in the terrace. If you are going to get upset by a few young lads donât go to games. Is the young lad a fan of Stephen Bennet roaring into lads faces or Aussie grabbing people by the face guard as opposed to a few boos.
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Uncle Tom ainât happy, even after his chats with Clare folk⌠from the Cork ExaminerâŚ
Former Wexford star Tom Dempsey has slammed what he considers the âcomplete lack of respectâ RTĂ pundits showed to his native county on Saturday.
Dempsey took exception to the amount of attention given to Clare during the live television coverage of the All-Ireland senior hurling quarter-final in Thurles.
âHave to say I am gutted after yesterday,â the 1996 All-Ireland winner posted on Facebook. âSo close and well done to all the lads for great effort. Well done to Clare and good luck to them.
âHowever, raced home to watch game on telly and was left speechless by the analysis which focused completely on Clare all the way through. No credit whatsoever to our lads but just how poorly the Banner played up to the last ten minutes.
âA complete lack of respect for Wexford hurling and when looking for a man of the match no Wexford player even mentioned. Why donât the losers ever get this award.â
Dempsey criticised the commentary about Cian Nolanâs late foul on Lee Chin, which resulted in neither a penalty nor a black card for the Clare defender.
âLee Chin had turned the player and was pulled down with no Clare player between him and the goal so penalty and black full stop. For three analysts to say that two Clare defenders were on their way back is completely irrelevant. The rule states that if no defender between player and goal when fouled itâs a penalty.
âFocus on marginal square balls was really the main reference to Wexford during the analysis which doesnât give the credit to our lads that we deserve.
âItâs not sour grapes because I wish Clare the very best and had lovely chats with some of their supporters yesterday. Yesterday, we deserved more time, space and respect from our national station and we did not get this from the analysts.
âFinally Good luck to Brian Lohan who was one man that gave Wexford credit. Brian is a legend and very dignified in victory or defeat. Up Wexford.â
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RTE now biased in favour of Clare 
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Itâs been quite the evolution for the Limerick crew around here since they were looking for directions to Dublin and Croke Park in their wide eyed innocence for the 2018 semi final against Cork. The more fair weather element of the Limerick support werenât even arsed travelling up to that one. Better things to be doing like going on the piss the day after a wedding and the like.
As Iâve said before the Limerick lads could really learn a lot from @Locke and the Kilkenny lads around here about how to carry themselves with humility, good grace and decorum.
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Boooooooooooo
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The headbutt gif would have been more appropriate surely
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A fairly sour match report from Denis Walsh on Galway v Cork in the Sunday Times today. The Carkness in him coming out. Heâs seething over Cork losing.
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Tom loves the Kilkenny lads, so he does.
Is this available for us plebs locked outside their paywall?
I donât have an online subscription to it
myself. Leave it with me, Iâll see if I can sort you out.
No worries. Donât go out of your way.
The panic continued until the seventh minute of stoppage time, Cork still frantically trying to undo the harm they had visited on themselves in the first half; Galway clinging to a trace of superiority that was neither convincing nor conclusive. Both of them will swear that they are not as bad as they looked; Galway will have another day in court.
It was an odd match, disfigured by Corkâs cock-eyed shooting in the first half and Galwayâs inability to snap out of the torpor that had ruined them in the Leinster final. When they both straightened up in the second half the game came alive for a while, and the outcome was in the balance for most of the final quarter.
Ultimately, though, Galwayâs game management was better. They hit a succession of long-range points that kept Cork at armâs length, and congested the running lanes that Cork had accessed at ease in the first half. Cork opened the second half with a goal, but they didnât conjure another threatening shot for the rest of the game. Long before the end they had resigned from their earlier obsession with goals; Galway might claim that they forced Cork to change their minds.
Galway will take some confidence from their second-half performance, but what they produced will be worthless against Limerick in a fortnight. The kind of power and dynamism that characterised Galway under Michael OâDonoghue has eroded over the past couple of years, and they no longer have the capacity to dominate opponents in the tackle or in the air.
Galwayâs puck-outs improved in the second half, and their overall economy was better than it had been in the Leinster final, but they were gifted one goal and capitalised on loose defending for the other. They canât count on those kind of indulgences against the champions.
Cork will know that they blew the game in the first half, when they spray-painted the Town End with wides â ten in all. Cork ran at Galway from every point on the compass in the opening 20 minutes, hell bent on exposing the lack of pace in Galwayâs middle third and defence. The problem for Cork was they did so little with the spaces they sourced.
Eanna Murphy in the Galway goal made three saves in the opening 22 minutes that ultimately shaped the match. Alan Connolly drove a ball straight at him, Robbie OâFlynn launched his attempt from too far out, and Darragh Fitzgibbon should have given him no chance with a shot he fired into the ground too early. Murphy, though, was equal to all of them, and two of those saves were terrific.
Even though Galway were in a commanding position on the scoreboard for most of the first half, they were living on scraps. A long ball from the excellent Jack Grealish slipped through the catching hand of Patrick Collins in Corkâs goal after just 21 seconds, when the Cork goalkeeper seemed to be distracted by his next move.
When Conor Whelan scored Galwayâs second goal, 18 minutes later, Galway found themselves five points clear, 2-2 to 0-3. Sean OâDonoghue seemed to have the situation covered, but he lost sight of the ball in the air, and even when the ball broke loose he might have mopped it up if he wasnât so intent on making contact with Whelan. Instead, he was overpowered by the Galway forward, who scored with a cute finish at the near post.
Patrick Horgan came on at the break, but in his absence Conor Lehane missed three attempts out of four with dead balls for Cork, and as the first half wore on Corkâs misses became more and more debilitating. Handy points were eschewed in favour of an extra pass, or a notional goal chance, when Cork really needed scores on the board.
Reprieved by Corkâs wastefulness, Galway steadied themselves before half-time and picked off three sweet points in a row. Padraic Mannion, Cathal Mannion and David Burke, decorated members of the old guard, started to exert more influence, and Galway led by five at the break, 2-6 to 0-7.
Cork made a thunderous start to the second half with a blistering goal from Shane Kingston, but Galway replied with three points in succession, and for every surge that Cork made in the second half Galway came up with a productive response.
The problem for Cork was that for all of the pressing they did they failed to draw level. The outstanding Robbie OâFlynn put them just a point behind with 16 minutes left, but once again Galway came up with the next three points, including a towering effort by Joseph Cooney from inside his own half.
For the remainder of the game that pattern continued â Cork pushed; Galway pushed back. Alan Cadogan produced an outstanding three-point cameo off the bench, and Cork landed the past three scores of the game in stoppage time, but Galway still had something in the bank, and it was enough.
Star Man: Eanna Murphy (Galway)
Cork: Collins, OâDonoghue, OâLeary, Cahalane 0-1, Downey (Millerick 50 mins), Joyce, Coleman 0-3, 0-2 frees, 0-1 sideline, Fitzgibbon 0-3, Meade 0-1, OâFlynn 0-3, Harnedy (OâConnell 68 mins), Kingston 1-2, 0-1 free, Lehane 0-1 free (Horgan h-t; 0-4, 0-2 frees, 0-1 65), Connolly (OâConnor 48 mins), OâMahony (Cadogan 58 mins; 0-3)
Galway: Murphy, Grealish (1-0), Daithi Burke, Morrissey, McInerney (Flynn 34 mins; 0-1), P Mannion, F Burke, J Cooney 0-2, David Burke 0-2 (Niland 69 mins), Glennon 0-1 (Coen 45 mins; 0-1), C Cooney 0-4, 0-3 frees, 0-1 65, Monaghan 0-1 (Lee 74 mins), Whelan 1-2, Fahy (Concannon 30 mins; 0-1), C Mannion 0-4
Referee: Paud OâDwyer (Carlow) Attendance: 34,640
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