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

[grapes]

That’s right.

[Joe_Player]

Hon Galway for Liam now

[anon61956325]

I thought you said Tipp would win?

[Ashman]

Is Barry Kelly a communist ?

[caulifloweredneanderthal]

Well done Galway. Won’t begrudge ye an all Ireland.

Our lads did what they could. Just wasn’t to be.
Life goes on. Having a supermacs now. Giving back to the Galway economy

[caulifloweredneanderthal]

@carryharry

Tipp brought on Forde & bar a score from a breaking ball was totally ineffective. Forde’s replacement Niall O’Meara again is a work horse type player who will struggle to get scores.
Steven O’Brien seemed an obvious sub to bring on to at least contest dropping ball but it must be pretty clear to him now he is not rated. He should really consider a move back to the Footballers now.

Galways lack of goals must be a worry heading into the AI final. Think Waterford is the team they will want. Cork if they beat Waterford will bring a running game which may well cause them serious problems.

Great game today, full blooded solid stuff. Hurling is a beautiful spectacle

+1 in all of this. A smashing and dignified play from @carryharry.

[thedancingbaby]

Not just Tipp fans. Celtic ones too.

[glasagusban]

You’re very testy and you’re also wrong. Burke has more hurling than any other full back in the country.

[Gman]

Very good game. Not an all time classic, an awful amount of errors on both sides, maybe affected by conditions, but some sloppy play and horrible wides at times.

In saying that, it was utterly enthralling. Fuck all between the pair of them all the way through. Some serious physicality throughout and both teams will know they were in a right battle. In fairness to Kelly, the hits as hard as that it was always going to be hard to call when to give a free or not without blowing up the whole time. He missed a lot both ways and certainly a clear Galway penalty. But at the same time, I thought Galway got a few more breaks than Tipp, although I was happy enough to see them get those breaks. They had a lot of chances to put away that game coming towards the end, some woeful decisions and attempts at least 3 times in the closing stages. A bit more of a cool head was needed. Call on here that canning was lucky to be still on around the 50th minute, and to be honest, you couldn’t argue with that. Poor frees and ineffective from play. But he earns the trust because of his ability to do what he did at the end. Pressure frees and a super winning point. It was an unreal score.

By fuck Galway better go and win from here.

[grapes]

Hon The Deise!

[flattythehurdler]

That is the best game of anything I’ve ever seen, ever.
I thought the result was fair enough in that there was only a point, if anything, between the teams, and Galway just about shaded it. I hence thought barry kelly had a good and fair enough game, and if Galway had lost, I’d probably think the same.
It was fucking epic.
Delighted for John Hanbury. He had a fine game. I don’t really think there was that poor a performance out there by any player.
Beautiful contest, hard fought and without much cynical hurling, bar Gleeson, but you’d be disappointed if your keeper didn’t do that tbh.
I thought paudie maher was as good as anyone out there. Bar eamon cregan in 1980, it’s hard to remember as good a performance in a losing cause.
Ah lads, we are privileged.

[backinatracksuit]

@carryharry I’m certain you believe what you’re saying and we’d all be the same, but you’re viewing Kelly’s performance through your blue and yellow glasses, if a robot reffed it Galway would have won by more,
But your lads contributed to a great game of hurling today, a stone cold classic, but there can be no doubting that Galway were the better team today

[the_mixer_walsh]

Larry says there’ll be one word on everybody’s lips over the next couple of days and that’s Cathal Barrett

[grapes]

Callinan missing the free or 65 with 5 minutes to go was the end of the game for Tipp. It gave Galway the lift they needed to drive on.

[Ashman]

Very good article on today’s Sunday Times on Cathal Barrett .

[anon61956325]

Did it outline how much of a scumbag he is?

[iron_mike]

@flattythehurdler

That is the best game of anything I’ve ever seen, ever.
I thought the result was fair enough in that there was only a point, if anything, between the teams, and Galway just about shaded it. I hence thought barry kelly had a good and fair enough game, and if Galway had lost, I’d probably think the same.
It was fucking epic.
Delighted for John Hanbury. He had a fine game. I don’t really think there was that poor a performance out there by any player.
Beautiful contest, hard fought and without much cynical hurling, bar Gleeson, but you’d be disappointed if your keeper didn’t do that tbh.
I thought paudie maher was as good as anyone out there. Bar eamon cregan in 1980, it’s hard to remember as good a performance in a losing cause.
Ah lads, we are privileged.

Finish the fucking job.

[Spidey]

Galway conceded 8 frees, Tipp 17

[Ashman]

It wasn’t flattering reading between the lines.

[the_mixer_walsh]

Those Tipp lads are dirty hoors