He looks like he ates plenty of them himself
Gearoid O’Connor surely had to start ahead of Callanan though? He’s been good all year and Callanan hasn’t really shown much.
I think Johnny Ryan is better than Connolly too (I know Connolly is one of the younger players too). Wouldn’t be sure about McCormack’s deployment deeper, they are probably short one natural wing-back (especially when Kennedy is pushed up).
None of Tipp’s older lads really played that well in the game. Their best players were younger fellas.
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Sorry i forgot Cooney. He was very good.
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Johnny Ryan is way better than Connolly.
I know Noel McGrath was poor yesterday but you keep him on the pitch regardless. Ridiculous having him sitting in the stand for the end-game. Callanan should have been used as an impact sub. Bubbles should have been there too as an impact sub. Niall O’Meara who was on the bench but not introduced was infuriating.
Dan McCormack wing back and Kennedy wing forward is just stupid.
When Cahill teams are flat they are very, very flat. Its happening a lot now too.
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Rodahans centra across the road before you go in is the answer. Couldn’t be fighting through half time crowd to then give your money away.
I saw Joe Canning in his column & a few others say pre game Tipp’s year would be a relative success even if they lost yesterday. I dunno, that was a terribly tame way to exit a championship and to a rival county too. Would the manner of that defeat potentially linger & do long term damage? We really need to secure Big Darragh Egan for another year at this week’s county board meeting before he’s linked with Tipp.
Tipp will be happy enough to be back competing but they have a reliance on some key men in their spine still who are pushing on I feel.
That said the likes of Paddy McCormack would improve them if he continues to develop. The bounce this year might not endure into next year if they cant build on to what they have.
The players are not there, only for Foudy they would have gone out of the championship with two points. Cahill is absolutely clueless, whacktics but he did not have the players to implement the plan.
It wasn’t a good year. In fact it fizzled out pretty badly.
Cahill will get another go but he really needs to reflect and reassess how he operates. Like Conor Bowe wasn’t deemed worthy of making the 26 last week and played a Club game last Sunday morning yet he was the first man thrown in to save the day last night. He was brought on and taken off twice this year. I get the feeling a lot of lads don’t know where they stand. The use/non use of Johnny Ryan after the Cork game was puzzling. Barrett wasnt ready for yesterday.
Its the worst Tipp team in my lifetime but you’d still expect way more than the total non-performance yesterday. In truth it should have been a 10 point defeat against a Galway team who themselves were terrible.
The two years he did well with Waterford were Covid years when he wouldn’t have had half as much interaction with players as normal. Theres something in that I think.
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Waterford had 4 or 5 near prime, elite players as well. I think Tipp should move on to someone who will play more to their traditional style.
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Wasn’t Cahill a windy corner forward back in the day? I’m not sure I’d respect this hard edge look he’s going for as a manager if I was playing for him. Like James Horan when he was with Mayo, who was a windy wing forward. If I was under 30, I’d also refuse to play for any manager who’s involved with FFG so I think Wexford need a new football manager too.
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Yes Waterford actually like running whereas its alien to Tipp.
The way thar game went last night should have suited Tipp with the whacktics but anyway. They were so bad.
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Some highly perceptive points there.
I have been told by astute Tipperary people that LC is considered the county’s shrewdest judge of a hurler since Theo English. But how shrewd is LC on hurling?
There is also a fine line between commendable mental stamina and wilful stubbornness – an observation that could also be made of Brian Cody and Brian Lohan.
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The prime golden generation of Tipperary were unlucky to run up against this Limerick team post 2018
Liam Sheedy would have stayed on if he thought they had a chance of turning the tide.
Cahill needs to find 3 or 4 players and perhaps change style
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Needs to find 7 or 8 for the next two seasons. Look at the age profile.
Was it half a dozen starters who will be 30 or more next year?
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Lohan definitely seems to be ignoring his management team.
Two from limerick and one from tipp.
He does not want to hear from them now.
I dont know how shrewd he is.
Maybe it had to be done but i think he weakened the panel when he got rid of Flynn x2, Connors, Byrne etc and replaced them with Joe Fogarty, Jack Ryan, Sean Ryan and Campion x2. Bubbles should also have been in the frame.
Its a real pity if that was to be Noel McGrath and Callanan’s last day out for Tipp.
Would not know anything about that facet but BL, while I greatly admire him, has made some fairly obvious dubious selection decisions.
Clare have the requisite 20 or so hurlers needed to win an All Ireland. If they are all fit, it is hard to fancy Kilkenny to beat them.
The glitch might be that the Clare backs’ stickwork and touch – as in the round robin first half against Waterford – can sometimes be brutal.
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Well, Byrnes had to go.
Serious though, who else is there to add? I spend a lot of time in tipp and don’t get much of an answer when I ask that question.
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