Official 2012 All Ireland Hurling Championship Thread

Limerick :guns:

Lovely.

What was the other fixture?

Hurling Qualifiers Draws Announced
Preliminary Round:
Limerick V Laois
Wexford V Westmeath.

Round 1
Limerick/Laois V Antrim
Wexford/ Westmeath V Carlow

Think its June 30th?

Limerick and Westmeath will be fancied to come through that section, you would think.

Westmeath will be hard bet.

Ah lovely, two confidence building games. Antrim will be well up for it but we never seem to struggle too much against them. Hopefully Hickey will be back for the game against the semi-final playoff winners.

So after Antrim where does that leave us? one game away from an AI QF? who would the possible oppisition be?

4 fucking 12 conceded against westmeath christ th egort backline is better then that

Westmeath sent Brendan Murtagh into the edge of the square in the second half and he ran riot. Kevin Hynes isnt a full back.

We’ll be found out at the back early enough this year. We have the forwards to clock big scores and we’ll need them because we’ll ship plenty at the back.

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Murtagh is a fine fine hurler.

Opposition will be one of the winners of the provincial play-offs. Eg Dublin, Offaly, Waterford and Cork( the losing provincial semi-finalists) . So limerick could play Cork and Westmeath could play Dublin.

Christ the qualifier system is some kind of retarded joke. Ditto for the provincial system at this stage as well. Just scrap them ffs.

What age is he by this stage? Wrong side of 30?

Westmeath must have two of the best Minors in the country as well.

What a joke of a system. Wexford are now in a more beneficial place than Offaly, even though they beat us. Ridiculous.

[quote=“Kinvara, post: 682766”]
Feck with your negativity. We are undefeated since June2012 :pint: HUP!

Is Cannings shoulder injury worse than earlier reported? He didnt started yesterday.

He was carrying it badly leaving the fray v Clare. Definitly not a trivial twinge

What’s with all the whinging about the ‘system’?

Well Laois beat Carlow yet are in the preliminary round :strokechin: :shakefist:

That’s the only thing I can see wrong with it. You’d think that Antrim and Carlow should be in the preliminary round instead of Westmeath and Laois.

There’s no real advantage to the like of Wexford or Limerick though for losing in the provincial quarter-finals rather than the semi-finals. They might be more likely to get a win or two because they’re playing somewhat weaker teams, but they’re no more or less likely to make the All-Ireland quarter-finals, which is the aim after all.