Tipp team V Kilkenny
Cummins
OāBrien, Fanning, Curan
Dunne, OāMahony, Fitz
McGrath, Brendan Maher
Noel McGrath, Callanan, Woodlock
Scrope, OāBrien, P. Kelly
Forwards look a bit light, canāt see them winning much hard ball
Puke will Clare beat Cork this weekend? Iām thinking they should and the 4/5 odds offered by Ladbrokes should be gobbled up.
[quote=āThe Pukeā]Tipp team V Kilkenny
Cummins
OāBrien, Fanning, Curan
Dunne, OāMahony, Fitz
McGrath, Brendan Maher
Noel McGrath, Callanan, Woodlock
Scrope, OāBrien, P. Kelly
Forwards look a bit light, canāt see them winning much hard ball[/quote]
Noel McGrath? Would this be his Senior debut? Theyāve been raving about this kid since he was 14 or 15 years old.
Very hard to know, they should as this is Corks first outing while Clare have 10+ plus games played at this stage so they should be a lot sharper, although Clare have been poor so far and Mac couldnāt give a fuck about the league by the look of it and Cork will be well up for it as they have a point to proveā¦Reckon we will win it alright but wouldnāt be putting a small fortune on itā¦
Played and scored a couple of points against Clare in the League and also played against Clare in the Waterford crystal
Whats the story with Clare Puke?
Itās gas when people conveniently convince themselves that their own county donāt care about the league when theyāve had some defeats. Iām talking about you, Puke. 
Itās the same at home with a lot of talk about David OāLeary ensuring weāll be fit and strong enough for the latter stages of the championship just because weāve taken 4 beatings in the football. Apparently, weāre not sharp enough now because weāre aiming to be at our peak for August and September. Sure thing, weāre destined to go all the way to the All Ireland football final - as we tend to do regularly. :rolleyes:
Clare are going nowhere runt, sure you know that. Just like Wexford and Laois. :rolleyes:
In what way?
Mac is doing the same thing that he did in the mid/late 90sā¦Pretty much fuck the league and try and have the lads right for the championshipā¦
[quote=āThe Pukeā]In what way?
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Just in general. I never really understood the place.
[quote=āBandageā]Itās gas when people conveniently convince themselves that their own county donāt care about the league when theyāve had some defeats. Iām talking about you, Puke.
Itās the same at home with a lot of talk about David OāLeary ensuring weāll be fit and strong enough for the latter stages of the championship just because weāve taken 4 beatings in the football. Apparently, weāre not sharp enough now because weāre aiming to be at our peak for August and September. Sure thing, weāre destined to go all the way to the All Ireland football final - as we tend to do regularly. :rolleyes:[/quote]
David OāLeary was all the rage last year Bandage and now heās a fool. Yeāre a fickle lot!
No, Iām fickle. :rolleyes:
He crossed me and he also did some things last year that I had misgivings about, but it would have been pretty trite to complain about them at the time.
[quote=āBandageā]Itās gas when people conveniently convince themselves that their own county donāt care about the league when theyāve had some defeats. Iām talking about you, Puke. :rolleyes:
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In fairness Mike Mac has a track record for training teams hard during the league to have them right for the champiosnhip bandage, he did it last year, he did it with Offaly and he did it when he was trainer of the Clare team
Remind me what he achieved with Offaly please. Wasnāt he in charge when we beat them 0-9 to 0-8 in that cracker in Nowlan Park?
He got them to a Leinster final when they were shockingly poor, that was about itā¦
Yep, but they didnāt even beat us, never mind Kilkenny, to get there.
And?..Think they also beat limerick and gave tipp a decent game of it in 2003 when he was over themā¦
And? They beat nobody of note under him. You mentioned his time with Offaly as if it was evidence of exceptional coaching.
They beat Limerick under him bandageā¦If you think back that was a shockingly poor offaly team with the vast majority of the great hurlers from the 1990ās having retired, gettig them to a leinster final and an all ireland quarter final in his two years there wasnāt too bad of an achivement all the same consideringā¦
He also trained Galway to get to an All ireland final
I donāt know about macās attitude towards the league to be honest. What I do know is that they underwent a dramatic improvement in form once the league ended last year and by the time championship came around they were a completely different proposition. Under Daly, the league form was very good but despite the good performances in late summer the munster championship was always a disaster. The big question over this team is whether or not last years wins over waterford and limerick actually meant anything and I donāt think weāll get our answer before the munster semi-final.