Its almost like I should have known that. The lads here post it up from time to time.
Amazing how quickly the game moved around the 2009-2014 period.
Gardiner was effectively done at 29 at Senior I/C in 2012. A lot of those Cork players of that era weren’t really that old, but they looked ancient when the really good Tipp and Kilkenny lads took over.
True.
The most amusing moment in 2000s hurling was when JG was interviewed immediately after 2006 AIF and said words to the effect: ‘Cork and Kilkenny will continue to dominate.’
Teej set him straight 
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Eoin Kelly was being phased out for Tipp after 2011 when he was 29. Tommy Walsh was more or less done for KK at 30.
John Mullane was retired at 31 in 2012. Eoin Kelly Waterford was a year or two younger when he departed in 2012 too.
But they were all hurling Senior at 19 or 20 years of age. Its an older mans game nowadays.
Depends on your style and how the legs hold up. Tommy Walsh was all about getting to the ball. But, yes, those men had long careers because of the early start.
Jaysus Limerick have lads bady rattled here…
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That past it Cork team battered Tipp in 2010. Standard questionable at that time.
A complete freak result.
Tipp beat Cork in 2007, 2008, 2009, 2011, 2012, 2014 and won the AI in 2010.
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Kilkenny and Tipp fans wistfully discussing the glory days and earnestly telling us that their lads were never dirty players back in their day, on the Limerick thread.
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Shur, lookit, i suppose, ju’know…
The past is a foreign country 
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Sure between panel members and backroom there were more people in Croke Park for the 2020 lockdown final than Tipp fans travelled to the Gaelic Grounds for the game against us last year. Very indicative of the current level of interest in their own team. That said from reading this thread there are a few who regularly go to watch us play even when their own county is playing elsewhere.
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They’re more interested in the one in a row hall of famers than their current team. It’s a strange dynamic to say the least.
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Kilkenny in the 2000s were comparatively dirtier than Limerick now.
They were desperate cunts
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That was some whinge.
They got away with a lot of filth for a while and they got used to it. Cody had a massive rant the night after winning an all Ireland after loughnane raised questions about them. They were up in arms when Barry Kelly came along and actually reffed them. Eddie Keher had a hilarious whinge about how wrong it was for referees to be “brandishing” cards to the great Kilkenny players.
Poor auld Hego never split anyone but he picks up a few yellow cards and now he’s public enemy number one.
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And he a fucking teacher, jesus if he ever becomes a Principal
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The big difference between the great Kilkenny team and this current Limerick team is the Kilkenny team were real men.
They could dish it out but they could also take it too. It always stayed in between the lines of the pitch with them. There was a respect from every hurling man for that Kilkenny side.
This current Limerick team are a bunch of thugs. They’ve assaulted their own supporters on nights out. It very hard to have any respect for them.
We’ve had a collection of fannies highlight a few Limerick dirty hits to portray them as an out of control indisciplined team… 5/6 incidents over 6 years.
It’s just another angle to try diminish what they’ve done and that’s fact.
JP, Water breaks, PEDs… And on and on.
When the Limerick players are getting digs and chop downs there’s not a word out of them. As recent as last Saturday there were a few nasty strokes but not a peep from Limerick.
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