Hard luck pal, great performance, died with yer boots on.
To the victors the spoils
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Itās swings and roundabouts mate. The reason Galway folk still talk about 1989 is less the ref and much more the Keady ban. The fact he was singled out was outrageous, given the number of county players doing the same in the 80s and given a Tipp player also played āillegallyā in the same game in New York. Denton was a cunt to us that day but the cooking of our goose and chance at a 3 in a row was all GAAās doing.
The level of cranks here is off the scale. Cunts living on ādeeds of past gloriesā and then refeering from the keyboard. Barry Kelly was fine - let it flow in fairness and whatever calls he missed balanced themselves out.
Galway were the better team, hungrier, more dominant aerially and possessed of better clinical forwards.
Joe Canning showed himself up there with Shefflin or any of them - the man for the big day.
The result is in the morning papers, thereās fuck all anyone can change now. The Tipp folk took it sportingly - devoid of rancour or bitternesss - the mark of Champions. What more do you wantā¦
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In fairness the only one moaning is the bitter one after the Leinster final defeat.
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Itās 28 years ago for fuck sake (ffs). Which Tipp player played under an assumed name in that match?
Iād completely agree with this[quote=āhorriblecunt, post:1642, topic:24512, full:trueā]
no offense to @Fagan_ODowd and @RayDonovan but this neutral would rather see cork v galway , from a hurling perspective
has greater potential for a spectacle like today
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The one who was banned for the final?
If Waterford grew a pair and played like either team today they would have a decent shot. In all honestly I think Galway would blow Cork out of it.
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Newsflash chef NO Tipperary player was banned for the 1989 All Ireland Senior Hurling Final.
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I hope you won the bet mate.
So why did Tipp drop one of their best players for the final? Because the GAA had no choice but to ban him, so Tipp did the decent thing. He was either going to be banned or dropped.
Yes,but he had to change his hurley to his puc out hurley, which had mysteriously got lost in the melee of sticks in the back of the goal, which is bigger at croke Park than a normal ground like semple.
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And that, in a nutshell, is it.
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What a bitter loserā¦ so what if the Sunday Game highlighted it, heās gone and taken it to the next level to make sure the heat stays onā¦ Heās a fucking weasel after that. A real low lifeā¦@flattythehurdler, heās on Twitter if you want a go but youād be wasting your time.
Would you stop egging the poor Tipp lads on ffs, you bad bastard.
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Zeebs knows
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What you, and most fans/hurlers in the ditch, do not understand is the best coached teams tackle in a way to fool refs or manipulate certain refs. Thats part of prep in most serious teams.
For what its worth guys, i have it on very good authority Barry Kelly did not pass his fitness tests this summer, and they just brushed it aside.
This is reasonabky common and Brian Gavin is thought not to have passed one in a good while.
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