Kilkenny - No
Cork - Yes
Galway - No not really (apart from 60 mins in 2007)
Waterford - Probably
Tipp - No
Antrim - No
I was referring to form as well WTB. Kilkenny have been in better form thats for sure. Tipp were flying at this point last year. Galway look a pale shadow of other years imo, mostly down to not being able to get Joe to fire. Antrim is a bit of a meh.
Come off it now. They destroyed Galway.
What other years do Galway look a pale shadow of? 1987 and 88?
A Galway side that have been a lot better though WTB, I’m not sure I could say they’re better than other years yet.
Just posted it up for some debate, not even sure of it myself, but get the feelings its a bit of meh at the moment in comparison to other years.
Years prior to 2010 and post 2006 Sid. Thought they looked functional at best the two times I’ve seen them this year.
Kev, can I please get you analysis of the All Ireland Senior Hurling Finals of 1976 and 1977 please or were they slightly before your time? I’m informed that we should have won one of them but I’d like a more definitive knowledge of the situation.
It will be a Kilkenny/Tipperary final, I believe. Drawing Galway might actually reawaken Tipp and prove to be a positive for them in the long run.
Fair play to kev, it will be the handiest 2 and a half G’s I shall ever make…
Is there going to be an escrow for this money?
Tipp are certainly sill the main challengers to Kilkenny for me and I can see them beating them in the final. I can see Ollie Canning getting a roasting next Sunday. He’s been there for the taking all season. Tipp should put Corbett on him.
Kev was willing to take me on my word but I have told him that I will forward him the 250 notes…Kev said he will forward me on his bank A/C number later this evening and he shall receive it then
I would like to be sure he has the readies to cover a 5k libality.
I am willing to take him at his word
They mightn’t find it too handy at all if the Galway backs stand up the way they did against Kilkenny. There’s a danger of Tipp being starved of possession as well. They’ve better hurlers than Galway in the middle third but a lot of them have been shown up as windy cunts when the pressure had come on. The expectation, like the Cork game, is that Tipp will hit the same heights as last August but there’s no guarantee of it. They could go to pieces if they start losing the puckout battle.
What’s in their favour is that Galway have little enough in the way of freescoring forwards, and that they’re very reliant on Farragher and Joe Canning. Canning lacks mobility but can expect a lot better supply than he got the last day. Despite not being in great form he still managed 3-11 in the three other games. You wouldn’t know with Farragher. I think Tipp will cough up scoring chances from distance but Farragher looked exhausted after 40mins hard work against Kilkenny. Not a good thing when your main midfielder might not have 70mins of running in him.
Galway do hate Tipp though. That’s bound to count for something.
Galway don’t do hate very well.
They do when it comes to Tipp
2008 was the height of this Kilkenny team’s powers when we had better teams to face.
Waterford and Cork 2008 were both much better than their current versions.
Waterford peaked in 2007.
This Tipp team hopefully peaked last year but I doubt it.
Galway are just too flakey to draw any real form lines.
They blew a good lead against Cork in 2008.
They choked against us last year in Tullamore.
They did much the same against Waterford in the quarter. You just can’t trust them to win any big game.
I fully expect then to roll over against Tipp.
There have been plenty of very limp Galway performances down the years against Tipp. 2003 in Pearse Stadium in particular when they played for about five minutes at very end when the game was lost. 2001 as well when they lost to a poor enough Tipp team. Even in 2005 when Tipp were absolute shite Galway they took their time before deciding they wanted to win.
Like who? Wexford and Offaly? The Cork team that wanted to get rid of their manager?
2008 was the height of Kilkenny.
Doesn’t mean it was the height of everyone else but yeah the Cork and Waterford teams in 2008 were better than now.
But like I said not their peaks.
Cork’s best display was wiping the floor with us in 2004.
Waterford looked like genuine contenders in the 2 games with Cork in 2007 quarter.
And also in the 2004 Munster Final.