Always thought it was a nice tradition the minor Final as the curtain raiser to the senior final. The young lads getting to play before a full house in Croke Park on the biggest day in the hurling calendar. Probably upwards on two thirds of minors never get the opportunity to play in Croke Park again.
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Seems they’ve really fucked up with tickets
An absolute shambles.
There was some fella from Nowlan Park on Tipp FM this morning to clarify the situation but it looks like its going to be utter carnage.
Any All Ireland underage final between Tipperary and Offaly should naturally be played in Portlaoise. The U21 final in 1989 was a roaring success after all 
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Limerick used to bring ten thousand at least to those U21 games in the early 00s, the Munster finals v Cork in 00 and v Tipp the following years and the All Ireland 3 in a row final in 02.
It’s great to see
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Taking the corner of O’Connell St and William St as Limerick City Downtown, St. Michael’s would be the parish, not represented by any current club. Old Christians would be marginally the closest as the crow flies.
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Looked that game up and watched brief highlights of it. Des Cahill was on commentary. Seemed like a cracker with a good crowd.
John Troy in goal for Offaly. Offaly seemed to have more Hall of Famers but Tipp led throughout. Interesting to see Liam Sheedy at corner-back.
Would that have been Abbey Sarsfields and out towards Corbally?
Why is this in the split season thread?
Where else would it be?
Why should it not be here?
The All Ireland Hurling Championship thread would be more appropriate.
Counties not having press nights is not the fault of the split season.
If there is less time between matches, teams are less likely to accommodate requests from media for any access.
If teams do that, the matches are likely to get less coverage because there is less material to work with.
The less time there is between matches, the more likely it is there will be a smaller crowd than there otherwise would have been.
The smaller the crowd or the expected crowd, the less the media buzz around the matches is likely to be.
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This is just nonsense though. The break is basically the same as it always was.
Kilkenny and Limerick have had 4 weeks. Clare and Galway have had 2, the usual length of time between quarter finals and semi finals for one of those games in the past.
When are these really hyped up All Ireland semi finals of the past? Most years its basically one foregone conclusion and one potentially great game but there’s rarely much hype in advance.
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There was some crack on the turnstiles that night…
I can’t remember many post-1996 All-Ireland hurling semi-finals that had less buzz about them than these two?
2010 for one. Everybody knew Tipp and Kilkenny would win
I think there’s even less buzz about these two semis and that’s with the outcome of one of them considered to be seriously in doubt.
I’ll give you 2007 Kilkenny v Wexford and possibly 2009 Tipperary v Limerick.
I think it’s very rare there’s hype for hurling semi finals. Limerick when they were shite or Wexford maybe. Its a niche sport, getting to a semi final isn’t anything special.
We’ll see how much hype there is for the football next week with Dublin vs Kerry and a novel pairing on the other side.
Them media cunts are always complaining. The reason no players will talk to them is they take even the slightest utterance and blow it up as headline. “Clare never feared Kilkenny” or whatever.
What would they get out of those press nights only easy copy. “John Kiely says they have everyone fit” blaa blaa blaa
They should run adds on the radio etc to try and get people to go to the matches. But the idea that reading an article with TJ Reid saying absolutely nothing for 1000 words will somehow generate “hype”. FFS
No current player or manager is going to open their beak.