Fair point. Carry on.
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As BeyoncĂ© one observed: âI donât think youâre ready for this jellyâ
I, like your good self, love a comma, adore a long winded sentence, enjoy a pointless clichĂ© and simply worship high brow âWest Britâ English.
You shouldnât wear sandals in Winter.
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Lunatics.
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Get back into your closet you faggot.
âIâll leave you to tidy up the woulds and shoulds, wills and shalls, thats and whichs etc.â#
How kind.
I will leave you to tidy up yourself.
Thatâs awful banter.
Up your game.
Let him be. Heâs a beaten docket. Another scalp for the TTP. I love an Internet victory. Iâve saved TFK here, ye bastards should be grateful.
Eaten bread is soon forgotten.
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There wonât be a text received from a lad in Galway who knows the ins and outs of the Galway panel for weeksâŠ
How is the view from Saint Molingâs cave these days?
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Fair play @Malarkey - No texts, and you even slip in the audit trail 
Why does the atmosphere feel so subdued? There has been little of the bite expected when anticipating these encounters, little of the sovereign bitterness. Pete Finnerty, sterling Galway wing back of the 1980s, once stated that hurling is a wonderful game except that Tipperary play it.
Flat lead up because these counties are out of their comfort zone? You would think so. Galway are nervous as slight favourites (especially since they occupy a warmer status in public consciousness). Tipperary are uncertain as slight underdogs.
Both experiences cut against established grain. Galway does being favourite like this coastal county does sunshine, irregularly but with a piercing beauty on good days. Galway hurling people like feeling on the back foot, due to associating best days with this step.
Tipperary does being uncertain like this inland county does overcast, unsettled by the absence of what is regarded as a right. Tipperary hurling people like feeling on the front foot, due to a marked capacity, over the last five decades, for amnesia. A powerful day around Cashel feels less like a privilege than a powerful day around Kinvara.
This weekendâs first point of interest, are these dynamics acknowledged? Neither contestant quite knows what to expect of itself. The most durable of clichĂ©s doubles in force: A good start might be way more than halfway there.
This sliver of advantage lies with Tipperary, in light of Galwayâs five-week layoff since the dismissal of Wexford in the Leinster final. The team who appeared a mere fortnight ago, as per Tippâs deserved but unconvincing win over Clare, typically settles to a rhythm quicker. I reckon Galway will thrive if they allow Tipperary no more than one goal in the first half.
How different does Mayâs Munster quarter-final pan out if Tipperary convert their early goal chances? Those opportunities were spurned and Cork grew into contention. To an extent, this Tipp season has centred on reclaiming the confidence drained by passing up said chances.
You could sense, once John McGrath slotted their second goal in the qualifier tie with Dublin, the whole team relax. For the previous 21 minutes, Tipp had been an underwhelming force, same as in their showing against Westmeath.
What is the case for Galway? For starters, Colm Callanan is a much better goalkeeper than Darren Gleeson and Darragh Mooney. Both their backs and forwards are physically equipped to trouble Tipperary in a manner other teams are not. Equally, their midfield pairing of David Burke and Johnny Coen looks stronger than what Michael Breen and Brendan Maher offered so far.
Again, Galway possess the âcutâ factor to an extent not seen this summer in any other side. Cork have been excellent but are more âslitâ than âcutâ.
Those other teams are not using aerial ball to anything like Galwayâs extent. A fortnight ago, Clareâs two first-half goals featured a common factor: James Barryâs poorness under a high delivery. For the second one, his body position was all wrong, ensuring any breaking ball would fall infield rather than to the safer precincts of the wing.
Yet Clareâs use of high deliveries was sporadic and not simply because all their positives on the day were haphazard, so slipshod was much of their hurling. No, defensive teams (which Clare largely remain) try such deliveries infrequently in games because their pattern of play in training eschews this gambit.
Galway are different. Galway will check out the Tipperary backsâ fetching ability for 70 minutes and more. Does this factor not deliver two or more goals? Manager Michael Ryan is caught between the unproven (Donagh Maher and TomĂĄs Hamill) and the declining (James Barry and Michael Cahill). Again, look at the manner in which Clare sub Peter Duggan discommoded SĂ©amus Kennedy in the fetching stakes.
Ryan is also caught with his own personal Charlie Carter moment, following Cathal Barrettâs removal from the panel. If he retains the All-Ireland without Barrett, Ryan will have absolute control of Tipperary hurling for several years. If he does not retain, every sort of a galoot will request his head, which would be ridiculous, since Ryan has proved himself, whatever Sundayâs result, a man not just of sound judgment but of sound principles.
Still, that dynamic is there and we do not know how it will spool in his playersâ psyche. Some lads love an excuse. The absence of Cathal Barrett would be an excuse.
Downsides for Galway? Centre-back GearĂłid McInerney is powerful but no stylist. Tipperary could put Noel McGrath to hurl on the drift from centre forward, which might lure McInerney into uncomfortable areas of the field.
This rejig would send Patrick âBonnerâ Maher to wing forward, where there could be a physical mismatch with Aidan Harte. For same reason of physique, Galway are likely to want PĂĄdraic Mannion as Dan McCormackâs marker.
Make no mistake, the stakes are higher than your average All-Ireland semi-final. The bookmakers hold that the winner will be champion.
By 2007âs lights, Galway are three to four points ahead of 2016âs showing. By the same measure, Tipperary are three to four points off 2016âs showing. This relay implies Galway victory by five points.
They are plenty good enough and should deliver. But around this group flies remembrance of chokes past.
Last September, Tipperary faced their âif not now, when?â moment. A sort of fury, the voltage of summoned hurt, sent them through the test. They hurled brilliantly when the price of brilliance was absolute belief and commitment.
That victory was meant to herald not just a pinnacle but a vista, a run of successive titles to rival their fiercest rivalsâ 21st-century achievement. This season, since NHL final defeat, Tipperary have stumbled around at the summit. But the prospect of that vista is still there.
This month, Galway face the same moment, the same audit. Sport holds no more daunting experience.
This Sunday, Galway should find sufficient fury, with sunshine general in the county next week.
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Thatâs not a bad article. No long winded, empty passages. No sign of vague and pointless cliches/sayings (Iâll grant him the powerful day one) and he actually makes a few worthwhile observations. Itâs a huge improvement on previous attempts. Stick with me @Malarkey and youâll be grand 
Heâs definitely getting paid by the word anyway.
Comma, Comma, Comma, Comma, Camelia.
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Are you asking me did @Malarkey reach out to me and were PMs exchanged? - I think you know the answer to that yourself, mate.
Constructive criticism from TTP like yourself have made him up his game. You should give yourself a congratulatory pat on the back. .
you wont find a better analysis based newspaper article on the tipp/galway game than what @Malarkey has produced here. its top class.
he also produced it while at the same time battering the living shit out of about 6 or 8 halfwits on here who had fuck all to do in the same timeframe.
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