The championship record is still 5-4 in Tippâs favour in that period and in the one knockout game played Tipp must have won by 20 points.
During that same period, whenever Tipp werenât too busy drinking, fighting or going off with eachotherâs girlfriends, they always had Kilkennyâs number quite comfortably, injuries or not.
They had Kilkennyâs number after the red card too and went further clear until the referee intervened and awarded Kilkenny the softest penalty in All Ireland Final history.
Remember Kilkenny should have played with 14 for most of that game too after the assault on Seamus Callanan in the opening minutes. But look, such is life.
Like I said Tippâs off field discipline cost them numerous All Irelandâs. It ran from mid September 2010 to June 2014 peaking in 2012 with the Monday Club.
Even though they only got their act together in June 2014 after 3 and a half years partying, they still very nearly pulled it off that September.
In the other years when they were fully tuned in, they beat Kilkenny rather comfortably in 2010, 2016 and 2019 .
2010: they won, in a farce. Kilkenny then proceeded to beat Tipperary four championship ties in a row, 2011-14. So 2010 was certainly a farce, then and after.
2016: they won well, with Michael Fennelly out and Kieran Joyce wandering around midfield after a man who could not score.