[quote=“The All Seeing Eye, post: 704693”]
yeah- i am, dont particularly like stick hurling but love fault finding in these games[/quote]
Cant wait to read your analysis mate 
Fairly predictable stuff from Dáthí ‘I love to shoot from the hip’ Regan :guns: . The point re the Cork '86 game has been done to death. He has a raging horn for Kilkenny-Tipp finals and is obviously seriously put out that Galway had the cheek to go and upset the apple-cart. Some of the language he uses in that piece shows that he full expects Galway to be well beaten on Sunday…“annihilate”, “no hope”, “pales into comparison”, “hammered”, Kilkenny “Juggernaut”.
Fuck off Regan, you fucking big fat, straight talking, Kilkenny-Tipp loving, too much drink consuming, self important Biffo Cunt.
cunningham was withdrawn from 15 to be the 3rd MF v KK that day
very wet day in thurles, i was at it
Tickets seem handy enough to get alright. Seems to be a few more floating about for it than usual.
H’on Galway! 
There seems to be plenty tickets everywhere.
Doubt it will be a full house… 75,000 or so by the looks of it.
Factors… The majority of people are expecting KK will win this easy, Tickets are 80 euro a pop, and KK people have been here so often I doubt they’ll travel in huge numbers.
[quote=“Kinvara, post: 704706”]
We’ll be the same numbers we always are for big matches. 15-20k or so.
All the Kilkenny people who’d go as a novelty have been weeded out long ago.
80 dabs is too much
It is to be honest. 60 euro would be plenty for the Davin end too. In fact they should have far more price bands based on the quality of the ticket.
That is my biggest issue. The guy stuck 3 rows from the front of the davin is paying the same price as the man in a perfect seat on the 65.
Totally agree with this. It’s been an issue for years, and not just in Croker. IRFU pull the same stunt in Lansdowne. Every stand ticket does not have the same value. They should price according to the actual value of the view and that would also presumably free up tickets in great locations that people who want to pay the extra bit can.
So is Cody going to start Buckley? Will Richie Hogan get his starting place back?
I expect Buckley to lose out and Cody to use Hogan in a deeper role, possibly to shadow Damien Hayes.
All this assumes that TJ Reid is fully fit, which I assume he is.
From what I hear, Richie Hogan will come back in the forward line and TJ will go out into midfield.
Tommy will track Damien Hayes,Damien should head for the corner flag and stay there hoping the other lad follows
Richie Hogan is a fine hurler but would not have the pace or the engine to play a deeper role and shadow Hayes. Would be completely lost. The lad is an out and out finisher
There is going to be some amount of players clogging the area between the two 45 yards lines with all this tracking talk.
The intensity of the battle under the dropping puckouts will be worth the 80 euro admission alone.
yes, i fear you are correct. the only successful strategy over the last 10 year with KK was space creation and movement, Cork and Tipp both managed it. When you go physical and tight…you’re fighting the Lion on its own terms
lansdowne/
[quote=“Kinvara, post: 704706”]
TASE appears to be keeping his powder dry on this one after being completely and utterly humiliated on his Dublin thread last week.