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.
āHall of Famersā!
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¦
A 9-6 split would be about fair and Iāve had to shoehorn Gillane in there.
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.
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
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.
#17 more is allā¦.
Absolutely sickened about last night. A huge crowd, they said it was the biggest they ever had in Ballybrown. But we fucked it away.
I thought we were good in the first half, totally shut down the Mungret attack, held them scoreless from play. But whether there was a hint of complacency that the job was done, I donāt know, but the second half was like the bad old days when we used to rely on one player to do it all on his own. It used to be Barry, yesterday it was Kyle, who was absolutely phenomenal.
But Mungret were just way sharper than us second-half, way better structure-wise. Now, the goal was an absolute abomination to concede and losing 2 of our full-back line didnāt help. Weāre already down 2 players who play there, and we donāt have a whole pile of defensive depth and pulling people back probably didnāt help our shape up the field. But there are no real excuses tbh, Mungret were missing their two best players as well as a handful of others, and had all the momentum second half. Games change on little things but you have to react to adversity better than we did.
Very very disappointing, we have a busy weekend/week ahead.
FFS Iām not sure why i bother. 
An astericks in 2010 and 2019 i mean for God sake. We could easily be talking about 2009 when a penalty was given which was criminal or 2014 when technology intervened and ruled out a legitimate point in the dying moments. The world and its mother know that was over the bar.
The biggest asterisks on an All Ireland in my lifetime were those played in July and December or even the one played in front of a few photographers and the players next of kin in 2021.
Hard luck mate. I was hoping youād wipe the smile off @ciarancareyshurlingarmyās smarmy face.
The current Limerick subs would bate the bollix off that Tipperary team.
Browne, always the show manā¦
You had the wrong sweeper. A number of your forwards made no impression.
How many frees did you waste?