Official 2011 All Ireland Hurling Championship Thread

mullane looks like he got sun burned badly in the warmup

Oh jaysus this could be an awful hammering.
Tipp are fucking streets ahead despite the ref giving the blaas every handy free going.

Lar might well win HOTY two years in a row the way he’s going. Has that happened before?

Apparently he beats the hurl off his legs to psyche himself up before the match.
Probably a fetish in there somewhere.

Mullane must think he’s Joe Canning or something :lol:

Another goal for Tipp, Kelly.

ffs Waterford, pathetic shit this

I’d start taking lads off now if I was Declan Ryan.
The belts will start coming now that the game is gone.

Tis a strange auld game, both sides half backline well on top yet Tipp’s half backline are using the ball far far better and pumping long direct ball into the inside line who are on fire. Waterford instead are either playing it into the corners or just frining it aimlessly up the field.

All well and good talking about gameplans and tactics but when the opposition are just a far superior side and are tune in and up for it doesn’t make a different, class will always prevail

Safe to say that Davy will be back with clare next year

It’s Tipp’s to lose now.

Waterford making Laois look good here

:lol: A turkey shoot!!!

To be a fly on the wall of the Deise dressing room…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bXPfqJv2V3o

If the wawderurd county board had any sense, they’d drum this eejit out of the place right now.
They haven’t a fucking clue what to do in any part of the field. They look physically unprepared, their touch is awful, this is rabbit in the headlights stuff.
A shambles, and the buck stops with wee man.

John Mullane regretting that fluke winner he got against Limerick big time I’d say. Tipp and Kilkenny still way ahead of the pack. Galway hurling exisits in it’s own netherworld, capable on their day of beating either of those but probably not both consecutively. Just as capable of getting a hemmering. Limerick and Dublin both with positive profiles on upward curves. Wexford and Offaly both as pointless as ever. Cork and Clare have been poor and look like they gone backwards but nothing to the extent of that first half performance from Waterford.

:lol: :lol: :lol:

Davy Fitz, tactical genius.

Tbh, tis Davy should be getting the bollicking. How many times have we seen Waterford concede from a direct ball into the FF? Same shit, different year. The personnel changes, but the problem remains.
Easily dragged out of position, running into each other to top it all off.

How did Waterford get this far? They must have come up against some awful shit on their side of the draw.

2002 was probably even worse, but at least there were reasons other than the fact that we are shit behind that. You’re right about taking the rebuilding process seriously, hopefully yesterday will shake off any complacency about Cork having some kind of divine right to be at the top table. Unfortunately the focus of the County Board Executive has been more on preserving itself than developing Cork hurling for the last few years.