5:25 is a great drinking time
It was a lovely change to be able to focus on just one game at the weekend, give it a proper build up and analysis after.
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The zealots wonât like this.
One team winning 12 of the last 13 has nothing to do with that
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Would have been lovely for the Waterford hurlers to have had even the 7 days between their only two home championship games of the season. Instead they get shunted in behind a 6pm Saturday paywall.
Hope you enjoyed the big build up to the Kerry v Clare Sunday Turkey shoot.
Waterford didnât have home games before the split season Dan
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Incorrect. Plenty of famous Waterford Championship days in Walsh Park over the years.
Cork lost their All Ireland crown there in 1967.
Cork lost again in 1974 when their goalkeeper Paddy Barry was sent off.
An 18 year old Ken McGrath made his Championship debut against Tipperary in 1996.
Waterford infamously lost to Kerry in 1993.
The split season zealots are increasingly becoming like their soccer counterparts , the Sky Sports Super Sunday, Soccer began with the EPL in 1992 brigade.
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4 examples in 60 years wow, no Munster championship matches in Waterford since 1996. Now they get 2 in one week, including one on a beautiful May bank holiday evening. I fail to see the issues.
There were Munster senior hurling Championship matches in Walsh Park in the 00âs and the 10âs. You are very poorly informed on basic facts.
Spilt season is an exercise in box ticking and fixture fulfilment. Cramming 5 rounds of Munster Championship matches into 6 weekends is just madness. There should be minimum of 2 if not 3 weeks between Championship matches.
Teams scheduled to play two matches within 6 days and all bar a handful will be done with inter-county hurling for the year when we hit mid-May and the best time of the year to be hurling.
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@ChairmanDan has put that one to bed fairly handily.
âGood man the Danâ.
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Poor as the attendances in Munster are, the attendances for Kerry v Cork and Kerry v Clare in both 2024 and 2025 still all comfortably exceeded the attendance of 8,092 for Kerryâs home round robin game last year against the previous yearâs All-Ireland semi-finalists Monaghan.
Itâs strange that the narrative around these poor attendances is âdo away with the provincesâ, when the provincial element clearly has a superior selling point to its alternative, ie. itâs the only thing that is holding up attendances at a poorish as opposed to terrible level.
The elephant in the room of the timing of these matches acting as a downward driver on attendances is never mentioned by the Pravda like client media however.
As much as youâre right, and as much as Waterford is very much a Munster county, Walsh Park doesnât strike me as a Munster ground. Nearly reminds me of Nowlan Park with the openside stand weirdly enough. Maybe itâll take me a few years to get used to the place as a Munster ground, with the new format.
surely another 5k will sell between now and Sunday? I might go meself even if dont go to Kerry
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Still only early in the week. If the weather is any way decent thereâll be 65k at it.
They need to abolish provincial finals, nobody cares.
