When you have a Dairy Farm at home, a 2pm throw in, in Thurles is logistically a lot easier than 4pm in Ennis.
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I appreciate that also.
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Life might be a little tougher after Fergal’s retirement
Stephen Bennett shouldn’t have been on the field after the hit he took and the free he missed was the hall marks of a fella suffering a head injury too.
If it was June or July you might get away with it but thanks to the split season the Munster Hurling Championship is clashing with the busiest time of the year for farmers.
Sure he missed an All Ireland Final to go up to Dublin to take photos of Henry Shefflin
That was a painful watch. Complete implosion at the back. Some positives like AMcC but we are in big trouble now.
The GAA have a massive ignorance towards head injuries.
Did someone really say the Tipp team of recent decade was as good as KK and better than Limerick??
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Limerick were determined to inflict an injury on him all day. I wonder is there bad blood there?
I was in a hotel room in Valencia grabbing some kip and nursing a sore throat.
Tipp have won some memorable under 21 finals in Ennis too.
Tipp are the only county to win in Ennis in this format and now they’ve done it twice.
The number thing in the column of “positives” with this format is that Ennis gets games. It’s the perfect venue for such a format. Three of the five venues are too big, one is too small. Ennis, with an 18-20k capacity or whatever it is, is like the third bowl of porridge, it’s just right.
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Was that the day after Liverpool won the 2019 Champions League? That explains why I can’t remember it so. We watched Limerick demolish Waterford in Walsh Park in an Irish bar and then headed off to the victory parade.
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Didn’t he go to college in UL? You’d imagine he’d be pally with the Limerick lads from that. Part of the 2015 Fitzgibbon winning team.
Yes. I got a red eye train back from Madrid after getting about four hours of shut eye in a sweaty hostel. After some more kip I listened to the latter stages of Cavan v Armagh while walking down past Santiago Calatrava’s egg.
A lovely city.
I would not think so. They just hit and hit hard. Mostly in the rules. Today on at least 4 occasions they mistimed them.
When I saw it I could only think of Andy Robertson. Hoping both are ok
Thats an argument for another day but this Limerick team aren’t half what they are made out to be.
If you dont jump straight in to tackle them, (they want you to jump in and engage in contact and then they will either break past you or win a free) instead using quick footwork to shadow/mirror their movements, you make them make the decision and a lot of the time they run out of ideas very quickly. Waterford’s footwork in terms of shadowing is excellent though so maybe not everyone can do that.
It will be argued today was a real off day for Limerick but they fell over the line in at least 3 games last year too.
The problem is too many teams overthink everything when playing them and cost themselves about 7 or 8 points when doing it.
Waterford only have themselves to blame for ducking that away. Limerick were trampish throughout though. The Limerick ‘fans’ are something else.
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No head injuries in the GAA kid whisht
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There are 5 really nasty lads on that Limerick team. Repeat offenders.
One game bans here and there for Round Robin games are not much incentive to behave themselves.