The softest AI ever won?
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So close to being Paddy Purcell in that picture.
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Sure anyone of Laois, Wexford or Tipp could’ve won it, all down to that 65 not being given.
Discipline cost ye.
Tipp were literally laughing at Laois for 70 odd minutes.
And then they went and did the lap of honour at the end to confirm our suspicions about the poor misfortunes.
Does that mean we should have gotten Liam for 3 months?
A rare indiscretion.
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Cork threw in Mark Ellis in at centre back from the terrace and beat the Greatest Limerick team of all time.
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Lads using children’s hurling matches to try to land a blow on you is desperate stuff.
Great post earlier about 2019 earlier btw. I sure acknowledge we got the refereeing rub of the green that day. Accepting that, there was a stage in the first half when I thought we were going to win it when Shaun Murphy was careering forward into the Tipp half over & over again, with Bubbles O’Dwyer quizzically looking at him & then staring at the bench. There was a stage where Tipp didn’t know what to do & were caught like rabbits in the head lights.
I’ve never watched the game back but we got a reprieve after we started to panic &/or hit the wall physically. Tipp had cut into our lead with a few points & we got a scuttery goal that should have settled us down. But we didn’t manage to RECENTER ourselves. I can still see in my mind’s eye an incident after that goal where I think we could have definitively won it. Conor McDonald won a ball in front of his marker, centrally around 40 yards out & had a panicked shot on the turn that went wide. I can’t recall who it was but we had another player bursting through on an untracked straight run into open green space behind McDonald & his marker. If McDonald had flicked/handpassed the ball into his path then it would have been a clear run in on goal for a 1 v 1.
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@Bandage Can you pin point a moment in time where Wexford became such after thoughts in hurling? Is there a worry locally ye like turn into an Offaly, Laois or a Tipperary?
There’s some amount of rattled lads on the forum today…
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The split season / super eights has finished hurling in most counties.
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All we need is Waterford to beat Clare to have the best Munster round robin in history.
It will drive a few lads around here demented.
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I won’t answer that question right now, but I’m going to attend Dublin-Wexford on Saturday evening. This will be my first Wexford game since the reverse fixture in last year’s round robin & I hope to draw some conclusions after I watch Wexford live. I therefore vow to revert back to you early next week.
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It was actually Mul who done the damage!!!
A fucking Hall of Famer and Mul with more All Irelands, Munster and Leagues in his area pockets than this fraud of a lad.
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That would be good, but seems unlikely given Waterford’s no-show at the weekend.
I think Cork were there to be got at if Waterford had turned up; really disappointing from them again.
They do have some talented players but their setup was way off the last day; no point playing a sweeper if you’re not going to bother marking.
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Idea for new GAA pre-game magazine show
Title: ‘Hip & Whip’, an eclectic mix of GAA chat and discussion
Intro: ‘Tonight, Tonight’ - Smashing Pumpkins, RTE have just licensed this seemingly
Presented, edited and produced by: Woolie with punditry from @peddlerscross & @BruidheanChaorthainn
-Analysis on the state of the game, (eg. up-and-coming players, falling standards, the handpass and The Split Season) as well as match previews
-Archive GAA footage feature each week chosen, edited and narrated by @Cheasty ; this can be game footage, pre-game and around the ground stuff from years gone by, interviews or a mix of all.
-A thought for the day to conclude each episode from Babs or Tom Ryan, Joe Brolly can take it up on football dominated weekends.
-There will be absolutely no footage shown of modern hurling, i.e. post 2018, as no one wants to see that shit, the only exceptions to this will be denoted ‘nice’ hurlers or pure ‘stickmen’ such as Jason Forde or Ozzy.
-‘How do they do it?’ segment where esteemed veterans such as TJ, Hoggie, Noel and Seamie descibe how handy the modern game is
-‘The Roast’ discussing the merits of modern defenders and systems based on how they would fare against a prime Eoin Kelly
-‘Eaten Alive’ chat on how forwards of the day would hang with JJ Delaney in his pomp
-‘Fuck Sake Ref’ Fergal Horgan in-studio to analyse the big calls (no in-game footage)
-‘ShowOurGameGrowourGame’
Ep 1:Una Healy & Brendan Maher meet Milan legends Guillit, Rijkard & Boban in Semple to show them the finer points of hurling
Ep 2:Darren Frehill and Clinton Morrison kick points in Croker
-‘Does it measure up?’, legends from days gone by compare hurleys with Aaron Gillane
-A tactical segment based loosely around the now defunct Sky post-match could be added, this could involve lads with current involvement like @Aristotle or @endakenny as well as prominent GAA writers like @Malarkey , however this would have to involve footage of modern hurling and therefore would be at a strong risk of being vetoed by the editorial team
-‘Hall of Fame’- Modern inductees, TJ, Hoggie, Noel, Seamie, Tony Kelly…then up goes the drawbridge
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Waterford v Clare is likely to played out in front of Rob Ryan and a few journalists in Thurles next week. Its not even televised either so is unlikely to capture anyone’s attention.
Waterford will probably down tools anyway.
So far in Munster, of the 4 games, Waterford v Cork was a total non event, Limerick v Waterford was decent but hardly a classic, while the other two games weren’t televised and failed to capture the wider public’s attention.
The Tipp v Cork game isn’t televised either this weekend which is another total joke. I also dont like the fact that floodlights are needed for these games but that’s what you get I suppose playing it off in a blitz like format in late April/early May.
It never stops raining in Cork but I’ll defer to weather expert @BruidheanChaorthainn to advise on the forecast for this coming weekend.
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Tbf, Mul is an enforcer that showldered Coleman into oblivion and broke hurleys in Croke Park after Casey and Lynch had broken Cark spirits.
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