There was no need for it, mate.
The unneccessary draws to Kilkenny and Clare cost them in 2018.
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Please use āclownshoeā instead of āclownā in future
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On the David Burke thing, I can definitely see how the red card was given. Itās one of those where he gives the referee āa decision to makeā. I donāt think he meant to hit him in the head but Iām not sure why he went to nail him either, he just didnāt need to do it, Whitely was going at pace and Burke turned his shoulder in, there was always going to be a heavy collision and if thereās head contact, you run the risk of getting sent off.
I donāt normally watch the Sunday Game but, tbf to Joe, he did make a decent point about the Morris one and the consistency across the board and that is probably the most frustrating thing. Heās probably right in saying that such challenges wonāt be a red for every referee but will for some.
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The Morris one was 100% deliberate also to make the lack of a red even worse
A red card has been coming for a while now to David Burke. Heās been living on the edge ever since he came back from injury
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David Burke can have no complaints. He lined him up and done him.
No hill tickets for the final 
. Leinster council just canāt help themselves.
Hopefully a Dublin crowd will go to the final now.
A very shrewd judge friend of mine stated in January that Dublin had the players to win a Leinster championship. I wasnāt in agreement with him at the time but he brought in up in a WhatsApp group again last night and you couldnāt argue with him.
MD has got them believing in themselves and seems to have stumbled upon a team/system. In fairness he had developed a few players over the past two years into consistent IC players namely Conor Donohoe, Brian Hayes, John Bellew and Sean Currie. Paddy Doyle has also broke through onto the team but he was going to make it regardless. Donohoe and Hayes never played minor or under 20/21. Hayes came through on the back of the Crokes conveyor belt, while Donohoe comes from Erins Isle who are a middling Senior C (intermediate) outfit. He was brought in on some development squad and kicked on from there. Currie was an underage star who struggled with injuries while Bellew would have been seen as just a very solid club player.
There are a good scatter of players that havenāt committed for a myriad of reasons, however I think the win yesterday will convince a few to return next year if asked. The bones of a competitive outfit is now there to kick on. Andy Dunphy being the main one to maybe return. There were five good lads on the 20s capable of kicking on, O Dualaing and the Crokes quartet of O Riain, Lucey, Kenny and Purcell.
I think the open spaces of Croke park will suit them. Whether Mullen is fit and firing will ultimately decide the game for me.
Finally Iāve found the a lot the media tone in the past 24 hours condescending. The theme is that Dublin just have pace and Galway were poor. No real mention of the good hurling Dublin played at all.
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Was told about this kid recently. Not seen much of him but supposed to be super young player.
Heās no kid. 24/25 Iād say. Supposed to be a great fella in Erins Isle driving things on.
Hmmm. Might be some other kid then from erins isle. Around 20 only?
Hopefully they do go toe-to-toe with Kilkenny.
Iām a little bit scarred by the 2021 Leinster final. Had a great win over Galway in the semi-final and then just a complete no show in the final. I appreciate that that was pre-Donohue but it was very disappointing from a neutral point-of-view.
And, last year, admittedly without a few of those players you mentioned, they didnāt look anywhere near the level against Clare.
Would you be confident that they are 10 points a better team than last year? Because if Kilkenny are at it, Iād probably have had the gap at close to that.
There is a lad of 19, Ollie Gaffney there on the senior panel. Started with 10 on his back for the 20s last week. Iām still to be sold on him. Donohoe would have taken their underage team and I think there were 3/4 of them on that Dublin 20s panel.
Thats probably the lad so. Fella was lording praise on him. Same.club as him tho perhaps a bit overly enamoured
They lost something like four starters for that 21 final after a covid outbreak in the 24 hours previous. I think O Donnell also pulled up with his hamstring after 15 mins.
Crummy and a fit Donal Burke are big plusses from the team that lost to Clare last year. There is now a little more panel depth. They would definitely run them closer this year.
A Leinster final loss would see them face Cork. Cork are the team they match up worst against and that could be a hammering alright.
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Iād give Dublin a right chance in the Final.
They are playing with a bit of abandon and Kilkenny are only limping along.
Donohue is very, very smart too.
Is the Joe McDonagh a curtain raiser to it?
Carlow picked up one draw in Leinster against Kilkenny and lost all their other matches by an average of 12 points.
Tipperary picked up one draw in Munster against Waterford and lost all their other matches by an average of 12 points.
Thatās the 3rd time out of 5 that Tipperary have had a winless Munster round robin campaign. The tournament organisers really need to have a look at this ring fencing of Tipperary against relegation.
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The Burkes got away with this behaviour in a few club games & you sensed Burke was trying to do similar to put the wind up the Dublin players.
He can have no complaints.
Still a pity that if that was his last action as a Galway IC hurler that he goes out like that.
Have you seen his leaving cert results?
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