A much worse Limerick team sent Tipp home with tae in their mugs in 2013 and 2014 
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Tbf, they did beat most of the same players in 18 in the first round. Theyād great skill and longevity but wound up very inconsistent.
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Jesus Richie Mc would rock up with a winter gut and send Callinan packing. Pawdee couldnāt handle David Breen. Imagine prime Hayes or Hegarty bounding past him.
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Those games had about as much relevance as when Tipp sent this current crop from Limerick home with tea in their mugs in 2019.
The swashbuckling Tipperary of that era needed the really big stage to perform.
The fact that as pensioners they were still able to win an All Ireland Final by about 20 points while Limerick were at their peak tells you all you need to know about how good they were.
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Hold on now. Are we saying a round robin dead rubber game has the same relevance as a Munster championship knockout game under the old format in the āhalcyon daysā. By God!
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Club championship Fixtures for Saturday 30th July
Bon Secours Hospital Limerick
Senior Hurling Championship Group 1 Round 1
Na Piarsaigh v Doon in Childers Road, at 7:00p.m.
Kilmallock v Patrickswell in Newcastle West at 7:00p.m.
Senior Hurling Championship Group 2 Round 1
Ballybrown v Blackrock in Ballyagran at 7:00p.m.
Garryspillane v South Liberties in Doon at 7:00p.m.
Lyons of Limerick.
Premier Intermediate Hurling Championship Round 1
Effin v Bruff in Kilmallock at 5:00p.m.
Dromin Athlacca v Knockainey in Knocklong at 7:00p.m.
Newcastle West v Glenroe in Feenagh at 7:00p.m.
Nick Grene Sportsgrounds Maintenance
Intermediate Hurling Championship Group 2 Round 1
Knockaderry v Pallasgreen in Mungret at 7:00p.m.
Fitzgeralds Woodlands House Hotel & Spa
Junior A Hurling Championship Group 1 Round 1
Ballybricken Bohermore v Dromcollogher Broadford in Kilbreedy at 5:00p.m.
St. Patrickās v Killeedy in Ballingarry at 7:00p.m.
Monagea v Ahane in Croagh at 7:00p.m.
Fitzgeralds Woodlands House Hotel & Spa Junior A Hurling Championship Group 3 Round 1
Feenagh Kilmeedy v Mungret St. Paulās at 7:00p.m.
Fitzgeralds Woodlands House Hotel & Spa Junior A Hurling Championship Group 4 Round 1
Tournafulla v Rathkeale in Quaid Park, Castlemahon, at 7:00p.m.
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A pile of mouth watering ties there. The big 4 facing off in senior, but Garryspillane-Liberties, NCW-Glenroe, Effin-Bruff, BB-DB are all enticing in their own right. Effin will have a right cut off Prem Intermediate this year, the likes of POD and FOC spending time training with the seniors wIll do them the world of good
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The halcyon days involved knockout qualifier games on Saturday nights. The Munster Championship lost its appeal after 2006.
It was much better craic losing in Munster from 2008 onwards. Like 2010, 2013, 2014 were much better craic following Tipp than monotously torturing opposition in Munster in 2011, 2012, 2015 and 2016.
The Tipp lads are getting slapped up and down the internet this morning.
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āHall of Famersā!
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Sure lookit these are tough times for them what with their tubby wristy lads getting jilted and forgotten for cyborgs now or something like that
If you had to make a combined 15 for this limerick team and the best 15 they can muster up from 2009-2016, how many would get in? Brendan Maher, Callanan? Thatās it
Ah that would be too cruel.
But, but, wrists or somethingā¦
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- Brendan Cummins
- Sean Finn
- Ronan Maher
- Barry Nash
- Diarmuid Byrnes
- Declan Hannon
- Padraic Maher
- Brendan Maher
- Noel McGrath
- John OāDwyer
- Cian Lynch
- Aaron Gillane
- Eoin Kelly
- Seamus Callanan
- Lar Corbett
A 9-6 split would be about fair and Iāve had to shoehorn Gillane in there.
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Theyād play it anyway you like
They have reinvented the game
The simple facts are Tipp 09-16 are the joint fourth best team of the millennium (only ever a puck of the ball between them and MODās Galway). No shame in being in the middle of the pack in a competitive era.
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Iād try to get Hegarty and Hayes in myself but itās not at all crazy,
Hegarty for Bubbles is very easy
Lynch to 9 and Hayes at 11
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The question has to be asked if these so-called Hall of Famers actually underachievedā¦?
2010 - Grand Canyon sized asterisk beside that one after overcoming an injury ravaged Kilkenny. Shefflin could barely hobble on for the throw-in ffs.
2016 - fair enough.
2019 - an even bigger asterisk than 2010 after the sending off, never mind avoiding Limerick in Croke Park.
They had some fine players, Brendan Maher and Eoin Kelly etc, but they never, ever dominated hurling the way the truly great teams did (and continue to do).
Your Corks of the 70ās, your Kilkennys of 2006-2009, your Limericks of the current era etc.
Youād be laughed out of it if you put a bunch of 1-in-a-row teams beside any of that lot.
The fact is that until Liam Cahill or any other Tipp manager win a 3-in-a-row like the rest of the big 4, they are just a nice team who won the odd All-Ireland here and there, usually with a helping hand from opposition injuries, red cards etc.
Anyone can win an AI but to really solidify that greatness you have to do it again and again. Thatās where Tipperary have come up short for nigh on 60 years.
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