Keohe from kilsheelan gone too.
My sources say Lee Chin and Rory O Connor are doubts for tomorrow.
Very astute observation. Holycross slightly more south than Thurles.
Cummins, Curran and Kelly kept the southern end of the county represented for the bones of 20 years.
The old saying went that the team should be picked from the environs of Killough hill (now a quarry) outside Thurles.
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Kiely tweaking slightly every day. Changes on the 26 also. A good sign on a winning team.
Clare’esque formatting
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Before that on previous winning teams the bonners ,fox and leahy were main form south…never knew there was so many from around nenagh now…
Is Deegan out for KK?
How does Jake Morris get on that team ahead of Bubbles? A poor mans Lar Corbett
Bubbles isn’t fit yet. He didn’t play a minute of club championship with Kilenaule
The 89/91 teams were stacked with players south of Thurles. The Bonnars, Fox, English, Leahy, Big Declan, Joe Hayes, John Kennedy. They represented the strength of the club game at the time. It was a freak, that side of the county would be seen poor bad hurlers or football country.
The current team would be a return to the traditional norms from 30s onwards. Very much based around the urban centres of North Tipperary namely Thurles, Nenagh, Templemore, Borrisleagh and Roscrea. Most clubs on tomorrow’s teamsheet border those places. The big anomaly with the teams of the past is the absence of a Toomevara player.
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Self isolating.
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I don’t really rate Morris but he is a very good finisher. He’ll get chances from those around him like his goal the last day.
Never knew clonoulty was south tipp…remember watching them winning county championship in late 80,s …had the same colours as Kerry
Would you rate Trigger ahead of Morris?
That Galway team is 
Very impressive looking
David Dunne to do a man marking job on Tony Kelly apparently
Clonoulty would be in the west divison and the traditionally the strongest club there. The fact that they are the closest west club to.Thurles and that a lot of lads would go to school there might be a contributory factor. They won a county final in 89 and again in 97 with a lot of aged members of the 89 team. They won it again in 2018.
They are good sorts out there and consistently produce good teams and players.
Declan Ryan, Joe Hayes and John Kennedy ( who now has 3 sons starting on the senior footballers) were the main men 30 years ago.
John O Keefe is their best player of the modern era but got torn a new one by Shefflin in the first half of the 2011 final. They have produced two cult heroes/enigmas in the last 25 years in Tipp namely Michael Bonny Kennedy in the late 90s and his nephew John O Neill from 2010 onwards. Both were outrageously gifted underage players who got senior championship runs at a young age but drinking beer and chasing tail enticed them more and they never fulfilled their hurling potential.
John Devane was another good yoke for them. Couldn’t break into the Tipp backs and was unfairly tried in the forwards. He managed them to the county in 18 just after stopping playing and is now over the Tipp 20s.
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No fancy graphics, money’s gone into the pitch. Same team as last week with Darragh Fitz in the bench.
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Anthony Nash (Kanturk)
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Damien Cahalane (St Finbarrs)
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Colm Spillane (Castlelyons)
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Sean O’ Donoghue (Inniscarra)
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Tim O’ Mahony (Newtownshandrum)
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Robert Downey (Glen Rovers)
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Mark Coleman (Blarney)
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Bill Cooper (Youghal)
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Luke Meade (Newcestown)
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Seamus Harnedy (St Itas)
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Shane Kingston (Douglas)
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Robbie O’ Flynn (Erins Own)
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Jack O’ Connor (Sarsfields)
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Declan Dalton (Fr O’ Neills)
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Patrick Horgan (Glen Rovers)
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Patrick Collins (Ballinhassig)
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Stephen McDonnell (Glen Rovers)
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Niall O’ Leary (Castlelyons
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Sean O’ Leary – Hayes (Midleton)
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Christopher Joyce (Na Piarsaigh)
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Billy Hennessy (St Finbarrs)
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Darragh Fitzgibbon (Charleville)
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Conor Lehane (Midleton)
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Aidan Walsh (Kanturk)
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Daire Connery (Na Pairsaigh)
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Conor Cahalane (St Finbarrs)
Hadn’t seen A.N. Other in a while. 
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