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

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I’m pacing myself. Just hopping an odd poor quip. It’s early days yet.

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You’d have hoped so.

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You’ve gone soft on vacation

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I’m getting a lot of stuff done before I go. I only have one phone and I don’t want to deal with work stuff for August.
I’ll be blocking a few numbers from 1:00pm on Thursday.

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Build up is extremely low key in Tipperary. Honestly believe the public are very much of the thinking Galway is a bridge too far for this panel.

Hope to fuck we get a performance & can leave CP with some sense of pride & not utter devastation at getting another hiding off the New KK bunch.

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The build up to 2015 on here will not be beaten again. I got seriously mugged off at the time after giving it the big one for about a month beforehand

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Yea 2015 was a dirty campaign on all sides allright.

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Tipp will wipe the floor with Galway.

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What ever else happens buddy, that won’t :wink:

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We’ll see.

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Could you be a bit more specific.

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I think tipp will win aswell. Tipp backs will be much more at home dealing with galway forwards and dont think galway backs are good enough collectively to handle tipp forwards.

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Galway are an early season team. They peaked for the league final and then timed their training to obliterate Kilkenny in the Leinster final but ended up facing a Wexford that had peakedfor the earlier rounds of the league and the Kilkenny game but as we have seenthey ran out of gas big time. Tipp on the other hand have been building up nicely to this. They could take or leave the Cork game, they were building for August and the last time they approached the Championship this way they blew Cork away in the semi. Their full back line is dodgy but Galway don’t have the pace to exploit it. Their half back line is imperious and they have the best set of forwards in Ireland. Tipp by 7 plus.

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With respect, Clare scored 3-18 or something like that against Tipp… If Galway are only at 70% they’ll better that.

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Thanks for the respect, chum.Clare have better full forwards than Galway.

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Stick to the football mate.
If anything Galway are a horrible early season team, two finals won since they joined Leinster? I think it will be close like most championship games between the sides since the Tipp famine ended.
Tipp HB line imperious? Kennedy didn’t look too good against Peter Duggan, and while a fine hurler R. Maher struggles against anyone who runs at him. I’ll give you P. Maher, but he is made look good by teams like Waterford who drive the ball down on top of him. Galway won’t do that. I agree the Tipp forwards are lethal but they won’t get it handy on Sunday.
Flynn and Whelan don’t have pace now?

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Ah shtop will ya.

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Fair reasoning and quiet a plausible scenario. The question is whether or not your biases prevent you from weighing up all the variables involved.

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Tipp wil walk this for FFS, Galway have played no one yet. If Galway win, fair enough but I wouldn’t be rolling up to Croker expecting a cakewalk if I was a crustie.

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Just giving my opinion as a neutral onlooker. Don’t take it to heart. It will have no bearing on the outcome.

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