All Ireland Hurling Final 2024 - The Tony Kelly Final

I think Clare have been sucked into a false sense of security with their games v Limerick.

Limerick have lost a lot of that pace and Clare never meet them in croke park either.

Cork beating Limerick in croke park is far more significant than anything Clare achieved.

I donā€™t think see Clare having the backs to deal hayes, Connolly and Barrett. I also donā€™t see them keeping tabs on daragh fitzgibbon either.

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Cork are getting ahead of themselves

Agreed ā€¦the time to be organising this is 6 o clock once final whistle is blown

Why 6pm.
Is it going to extra time?

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Win or lose theyā€™ll get a homecoming. PUC being proposed is to do with work being done on Patrickā€™s Street I think.

The ticket situation is very bad in Cork.

A bird I went on a few dates with (I called it off) is after texting me to keep her in mind if I hear of any tickets going :sweat_smile:

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I have friends coming over from the States next week. One has no interest in hurling, his partner an American tells me itā€™s her dream in life to go to the All Ireland hurling final. I very nicely told her to pick a more realistic dream.

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67 posts. Itā€™s dead. Did someone take an omertĆ  ? itā€™s the only way.

Similar type players in lots of ways, but Fitzgibbon is currently in much better form than Tony Kelly.

At least you donā€™t have to avoid WhatsApp for the day.

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They are and fellas are opportunisticā€¦a club mate of yours had a poster for the drom Bradford monster draw onto a WhatsApp group Iā€™m in with him within an hour of the final whistle Sunday ā€¦Iā€™d say he sold a good few tickets too :smiley:

Far cry from a few of the tipp kilkenny finals were they nearly didnā€™t sell out

Agreed, but Kelly is clearly injured and it has been much worse/more niggling than he or Clare were letting on. Two more weeks is likely to show further improvement.
Hard to look past cork though.

Iā€™m already shit sick of the cunts

Heā€™s been worse at niggling alright.

I wonder about that. Theyā€™ll do very well to get to the heights of the semi again.

Clare havenā€™t peaked all year really.

Advantage Clare.

Aside: Lukasz Kirszenstein (Clare S&C) is lining up for his 3rd AI final with 3 seperate teams.

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Informative rating.

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Think the impact of the bench will be massive if itā€™s close with 20 minutes to go.
Taylor and galvin made a huge difference in turning the momentum Clares way last Saturday. Galvin is very hard to stop with good low ball and clare gave up the crazy long distance shooting, even when the pressure was on in the second half.
Cork didnā€™t get much out of Kingston or o Flynn. Of course Kingston is capable of serious damage when heā€™s on his game.

They didnā€™t really do this on Saturday though. They had 10 shots from play in the first half and all were pretty much on. 5 went over, Rodgers had a goal effort saved and Reidy and Ryan hit wides inside the 40 while David Mc and Cleary both hit wides on the 65 when they were unmarked.

Both sides really struggled to get shots off into the canal end.

Johnny Murphy confirmed as ref

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