[QUOTE=“glasagusban, post: 1012046, member: 1533”]Tipp will need Lar and McGrath to actually do stuff to win this match. Kk will negate many of Tipp’s strong areas.
Tipp won’t get uncontested puck outs to the middle third.
Tipp won’t dominate midfield, they’ll probably come off second best.
Mick Fennelly will run over P Maher and prevent him dominating around half back.
Callinan will have little enough impact from play off JJ.
Add in that kk have a strong bench and Tipp don’t.
Verdict: kk win.[/QUOTE]
I’d like to dislike that post and agree with it at the same time.
Nally Stand tickets on general sale on tickets.ie, this game will not sell out.
Unlikely to hit 80 k, it cant just be lack of neutral interest if the competing county boards are returning tickets.
[QUOTE=“Special Olympiakos, post: 1012012, member: 366”]We expecting any surprises in the Cats team?
Richie Power will surely the nod ahead of Kelly. He could do something really radical and pick Walter Walsh again too. Larkin has been a great servant but offers nothing these days imo.
Half back line doesn’t convince me at all but unless Tommy has been flying it in training I can’t see how he can change it? Brian Hogan had a good semi final but I’m not convinced his form is back.
I am hoping on hope too it will read no 1 Murphy and not Herity.[/QUOTE]
Herity out, Murphy in-will be announced tonight.
If Galway had beaten Limerick in the minor semi, you could have knocked another 3 or 4k off the attendance.
There’s a number of factors, I would think. Kilkenny and Offaly are the only counties with populations of less than 100,000 to win All Ireland’s in the last 50 years. When Kilkenny are in the final, there’s just less demand on tickets based on the population of the county. When they’ve been in 14 of the last 17 finals, it all becomes a bit tedious for the neutral and probably even some Kilkenny people as well.
Price a factor, as has been said, 80 for a rubbish ticket in Davin Stand - you’d be better off at home.
Ages of 20-30 traditionally large going to matches demographic. There’s hardly anyone of those ages left in the country as they’ve all emigrated to Australia & Canada.
Its not unprecedented. There was just over 53,000 at the 1979 All Ireland Final at a time when the capacity of Croke Park was around the 65,000 mark.
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Rumour mill runnin now but P Walsh may have been chopped too !
They’ll be lucky to get 75000 at this I’d say. Tickets all over the place. Not sure why Tipp people wouldn’t go, it’s not like we’re winning them every year
Always the same once you get to Thursday before the All Ireland, tickets turn up everywhere.
Herity, P Walsh and Kelly dropped.
Murphy, Big Wally and Richard Power in.
Tickets returned from competing counties were on sale on GAA.ie tonight.
The 08 semi was it? Richie Power got the winner v limerick
As I guessed he went with Wally, Murphy and Power. Predictable enough really
<80k, possibly 78k
Going to hill with young fella, other two in 327
Which of you freaks are being interviewed here on this Friday GAA thingy… It still hurts watching glimpses of the semi final.
FFS, is there anyway we could get both of them beat
I have 2 tickets that aren’t exactly to my liking. 329 Lr.Hogan - Row E…Too low down for my taste. Fuck it, they’ll have to do. 
I listened to that preview that was on off the ball the other night from Kilkenny. Joe Canning and Seamus Hickey were good while Michael Kavanagh seems to be a complete simpleton
