Galway v Tipperary - All Ireland Senior Hurling Semi-Final 2017

[Mullach_Ide]

@alf_stewart

@Ashman

Yes . I predict John “Bubbles” O Dwyer will spend to day shadowing Paraic Mannion . He will have no interest in scoring . He will come out late for second half .

Fat Bubbles wouldnt have the engine for that craic. better off to conserve energy in the shade under the stand and hope he gets a few loose balls thrown out to him.

Just as well fat paul murphy was marking him for his 1-05 in last year’s All Ireland final bud.

[Joe_Player]

Is bubble d injured cc @carryharry @caulifloweredneanderthal ?

[anon61956325]

He’s not - don’t be listening to these apes playing the poor mouth… Tipp lads, except @Brimmer_Bradley, are going up fully expecting a win.

[caulifloweredneanderthal]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rtd3p2xkgcE

[caulifloweredneanderthal]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YE6k9MUtcNY

A fucking great day. I remember it like it was yesterday.

[caulifloweredneanderthal]

Doubtful Joe. Also injury concerns over Ronan Maher, Bonner Maher, Seamie, and John McGrath
cc @Brimmer_Bradley

[Sidney]

@flattythehurdler

SidneyWe go again1d Watch_The_Break
Watch_The_Break:
I think that risk is overstated. The benefit of the qualifier route is that you have more games to hit your stride, so it’s probable that Tipp will take it up a level from the Clare game. But there’s a chasm between what Galway have shown this year and what Tipp have. Galway will have so much possession that only a meltdown in front of the posts will beat them.
Tipperary hit 27 scores against Cork, 32 against Dublin and 28 against Clare. Those are very similar amounts of scores to what Galway have notched against poorer opposition so far.

Galway had valley periods of 15 minutes each in the first half against both Dublin and Wexford where the opposition were comfortably on top in the play.

You’ll get away with that against Dublin because they’re shit and against Wexford because they don’t score goals.

Tipperary generally do score goals, more than Galway score. If Tipperary were to have a 15 minute period of dominance in the first half and bang in two goals, which they could easily do, Galway might find it a lot more difficult to recover than they did against Dublin and Wexford.

But if Tipperary aren’t more than 1 or 2 points ahead by the 50 minute mark, Galway will probably wear them down physically in the last 20 minutes.

Galway could win by 10 plus because up to now Tipperary haven’t been up for a battle in the same way they were last year, however it would be foolish to make the assumption that that will be the case again, although it might well be.

But the last time Tipperary came through the back door, in 2014, they only kicked into gear at the semi-final stage, having been pretty unimpressive up to that. It was a similar-ish story in 2010.

Watch_The_Break:
If little Colm Galvin could boss Maher and Breen then David Burke will make shit of them.
Colm Galvin and Jamie Barron are probably the two best midfielders in the game and both are small.

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So, to sum up, galway might win, tip might win, and the last bit is wrong.

Learn to use the quote function, please.

You’re just lucky that I spend 25 hours a day on here and saw this.

I feel that this is a much more unpredictable clash than the previous two years as there are genuine doubts over how:
i) Galway will deal with the five week break (Tipperary have had two matches in the four weeks preceding the game)
and ii) whether Tipperary will get to anywhere near the level of 2016.

If i) bears out but ii) doesn’t, Tipperary win.
If ii) bears out and i) doesn’t, Galway win at a canter.
If i) and ii) both bear out or both don’t bear out, it’s a toss up with a perhaps a marginal advantage to Galway.

So I feel the possible result could be anywhere between Galway +15 and Tipperary +5, as opposed to in the other semi-final, in which I would be surprised to see a result of more than 3-4 points either way.

Overall I feel Galway have a better chance of overcoming i) than Tipperary do of overcoming ii) and I feel Galway will win by 6-8 points.

[Bandage]

Hopefully Tipperary will be steeled to deal with Galway’s giants (unlike the league final) and are able to get into that beautiful rhythm of theirs. Hurling truly is the riverdance of sport when they’re popping the ball around up front. Fantastic movement, wonderful vision, deft touch, amazing skills and clinical finishing.

[mikehunt]

@Bandage

Hopefully Tipperary will be steeled to deal with Galway’s giants (unlike the league final) and are able to get into that beautiful rhythm of theirs. Hurling truly is the riverdance of sport when they’re popping the ball around up front. Fantastic movement, wonderful vision, deft touch, amazing skills and clinical finishing.

We’ll fucking bury them if they start that shite.

[anon61956325]

Fuck off you wanker.

[the_man_himself]

Indeed. I fear the gym monkeys will overpower our lads. Galway by 10

[gaillimhmick]

What’s Paudi, a ballerina?

[the_man_himself]

Ye have about 8 lads the size of Paudie

[gaillimhmick]

And all eight can hurl

[the_man_himself]

[gaillimhmick]

Noel Lane Hurling Goal vs Tipperary 1988

More than I can say for Donovan and Hogan here.

[gaillimhmick]

@Brimmer_Bradley

I was busy shopping with my family.

Shit scrapers and overalls?

[Watch_The_Break]

@gaillimhmick

https://youtu.be/R88ibLRTKXE
More than I can say for Donovan and Hogan here.

A puckout and two ground strokes to the net. Michael Duignan must love that.

[iron_mike]

Sweep sweep

[Brimmer_Bradley]

@mikehunt

@Bandage

Hopefully Tipperary will be steeled to deal with Galway’s giants (unlike the league final) and are able to get into that beautiful rhythm of theirs. Hurling truly is the riverdance of sport when they’re popping the ball around up front. Fantastic movement, wonderful vision, deft touch, amazing skills and clinical finishing.

We’ll fucking bury them if they start that shite.

Like joe got buried last year ?
Paudie is still laughing over it