Allianz Hurling League 2017 - Round of 4

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O’Loughlin Gaels clubhouse isn’t too bad, pitch isn’t too far from the town centre either.

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Both semi-finals will be interesting. Wexford’s win over Kilkenny was very impressive, even if Kilkenny weren’t what they once were. Tipp a step up again, obviously, and do seem to want to win the league this year but unlikely to be at Championship pace while Wexford seem to be flying. I think Tipp are the better team, but expect a good contest.

And Limerick-Galway is a strange one in that they’ve just played, Galway by far the better team in the second half that day, dominated physically. Be interesting to see if Limerick have learned from their mistakes, hard to imagine they’ll be as poor in the second half again. How interested are Galway? Great comeback against Waterford but how they found themselves in that position in the first place would be a worry.

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Relax. A fully fit Wexford team beat a half fit KK team on the decline. Tipp will beat us easily enough. They’re miles a better a team than we are.

I’d take a respectable 7 or 8 point win to temper championship expectations. Our lads will plateau soon enough this season given their bodies won’t be able to cope with all the training they’re doing

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See ye in summer and @ChocolateMice as I saId league means fuck all look who’s in the semis C C @caulifloweredneanderthal

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You had your Clare jersey on for 2 months last year when Clare won it…

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Lies. But it was big teams

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Tipp know that they have it won cc @caulifloweredneanderthal

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We don’t wear jerseys in April

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I have pictures…

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Donagh Maher apparently tore hamstring. Bubbles and Niall O’Meara doubtful.

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Doesn’t matter. It all depends how much Tipp want it. The next two games will be nothing more than glorified challenge matches for ye

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Bubbles might need an op i’m hearing -

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They might extend the surgeons knife to the vocal chords too hopefully

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One thing in Wexford’s favour is that physicality and workrate tends to slow Tipp’s scoring rate significantly, as evidenced by several games with Galway, and Kilkenny in the league this year. Wexford look to be in better physical condition than anyone else right now so maybe they can knock Tipp off their stride. Worth remembering that Clare beat Tipp with 2-13 at the knockout stages last year.

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Ye are not playing tipp this year

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Fixed that there for ya joe😎

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Thanks forgot about the Munster final

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Tipp do seem to be ahead of where they were at this stage last year. Winning an All-Ireland obviously does wonders for your confidence, but they seem to be motoring along nicely, very sure in what they have to do. Whereas last year they were only working towards that.

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Tipp won’t lose a game in 2017

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They do. And whether the internal competition is for real or not, it certainly looks to be driving performance levels at the moment.