Lookit. I listened to an awful lot of shit during the week about how this wasnt a 3/1 game. Well if you backed Galway at 3/1 you lost your money. End of story. So it was a 3/1 game.
The amount of horseshit written about KK since their absolute demise in the Leinster final is comical. The media hanging onto a hero with usual lazy soundbitesâŚ
KK owe nothing to hurling they have been great champ but they are no longer a great team. A decent but far from great Galway side played badly for the majority of yesterdays game and KK still could not dispose of them. Only 2 of our forwards scored from play FFS.
Cody is clearly rattled and his behaviour yesterday was shocking. Loughnane in his prime would have been sent to the stand for such antics.
But the charade goes on⌠More drivel for the next few weeks.
Whatever.
Kilkenny with a number of miss firing, old, weary warriors totally dominated the young, fresh Galway team in the second half.
Cunningham can talk them up all he wants, and clearly heâs a good manager but 9/4 is hardly great value or anything.
When a Kilkenny fellow stands over a penalty and actively considers the possibility of missing well you know the evil empire is finished.
Whatever is right you fookin goon.
Thanks bandage. You might go for the rte gig? Would make more sense than the biffo.
That also explains to me why m fennelly and smith were not in the game.
good point by fenners on Tipp 2010. It can be considered a tainted ai now just like 89.
Remarkable inability this year of punters from competing counties (excluding Kilkenny) to objectively call the game.
tipptops was more objective that this crowd.
The empire will only be finished when Cody has been driven deep into the ground with a stake through his heart. That is if he has a heart. All available evidence suggests he does not.
Itâs been finished since 2004 then you gormless fool.
Please expand on this Appendage
Galway posters on here, with the notable exceptions of Clarkeycat and Chewy Louie, are complete idiots.
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Galway posters on here, with the notable exceptions of Clarkeycat and Chewy Louie, are complete idiots.[/quote]
Cheers mate. I wanted to see highlights of the game to see if there was anything I didnât pick up on live before giving my assessment on here. Unfortunately the Sunday game wasnât up on RTE Player this morning so ye all may wait.
I was one of those that lost money. Galway were a 7/4 - 2/1 shot max. Id make them a 6/4 - 7/4 chance for the replay.
anyone know what price they were in running at half time? there only seemed one winner at the interval really.
Much the same as 73.
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I was one of those that lost money. Galway were a 7/4 - 2/1 shot max. Id make them a 6/4 - 7/4 chance for the replay.
anyone know what price they were in running at half time? there only seemed one winner at the interval really.[/quote]
8/11 at half time
Huh?
thought they might have been shorter than that.
To put it in your words Mac would you say, the Galway hurlers are like bridle horses?
Really struggle to get over the line when in a great position. Bit like that Harchibald horse all those years ago
Theyâre massively improved alright. There seems to be a few different elements to it. What really upsets Kilkenny is the ability to deny them clean catches. In the first half yesterday they almost always managed to break the ball by just attacking it early in its flight and breaking it down from a higher point than the Kilkenny lads can catch it.
Why thatâs really effective though is the burst of pace Coen, Collins, Moore, and Donohue have around the breaks. Kilkenny just arenât as sharp in this department as they once were, and a product of the deep half-forward line is the lack of cavalry around to arrive on the scene and help them out.
It has to be something they target the next day. The Galway backs donât let them win clean ball in the air but they donât win it themselves either, and any defence that is letting the ball go to ground and into space is giving you a serious opening. Itâs hard to know if the legs are still there for Kilkenny to take advantage of it though.
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thought they might have been shorter than that.
To put it in your words Mac would you say, the Galway hurlers are like bridle horses?
Really struggle to get over the line when in a great position. Bit like that Harchibald horse all those years ago[/quote]
I think that was the case previously but not anymore. They have an ability to make Kilkenny doubt themselves which no other team seems able to do. For KK miss easy frees, take points from penalties, and to see Cody as rattled as he was at the end was something Iâd never seen before.
On the odds, they werenât shorter as KK had just rattled off 3 points in a row between 30 and 35 mins or thereabouts. Looked like they had Galways measure eventually. Similar to the 2010 final where KK went in favâs at half time despite being behind, without shefflin and being beaten all over the park.