Opinion: Tj Reid

[EstebanSexface]

@peddlerscross

Don’t worry, I wouldn’t expect @thelimericks to understand anyway.

we aren’t as versed in soft talk and bullshit as yerselves

[EstebanSexface]

it’s actually embarrassing. Cork levels of neediness

[Aertel220]

@Fran

KK v Limerick was the game of 2019

Tipp v Wexford took on extra significance the following day though with Limerick eliminated. Both teams knew they’d have the beatings of Kilkenny in the final.

[peddlerscross]

KK and Limerick were both useless in 2019.

[glasagusban]

@peddlerscross

Tipperary v Kilkenny was the game in the 2013 Championship.

I’m not going to bother with the rest of them but we can’t let this slide, this game was an irrelevance. A classic qualifier, of little interest outside of the counties competing.

[endakenny]

You just don’t get it.

[Cheasty]

@peddlerscross

We are not talking about the best game, we are talking about the game.

There’s a difference, and those who know, know.

Don’t worry, I wouldn’t expect @thelimericks to understand anyway.

The game I would presume is the equivalent of the queen stage of the Tour de France. ie. the game that is most influential in the course of the year, the game that cast the biggest shadow over the course of the championship.

In 2013 I would say that game was Cork v Kilkenny. Arguably the Dublin v Kilkenny replay because it was a pretty strong straw in the wind that Kilkenny were not at the races.

Clare v Limerick also has a decent claim for 2013 because it became obvious that day that Clare were the best team in Ireland that year. And they were the best team.

Yesterday it was said Tipp put in five performances to win the All-Ireland in 2016, which they did. But so did Clare.

Clare were comfortably better than Wexford - they had to win that game twice, but they did.
They were comfortably better than Galway and comfortably better than Limerick.
Then they were comfortably better than Cork twice, even if they nearly had one of those games stolen from under their noses.

Clare were the best team in 2013 and Kilkenny v Tipperary that year is a footnote.

1987: Galway v Tipperary
1988: Galway v Tipperary
1989: Tipperary v Galway
1990: Cork v Tipperary
1991: Tipperary v Cork (replay)
1992: Kilkenny v Cork
1993: Wexford v Kilkenny (draw)
1994: Offaly v Kilkenny
1995: Clare v Limerick
1996: Wexford v Offaly
1997: Clare v Tipp 2
1998: Clare v Offaly 2
1999: Cork v Kilkenny
2000: Cork v Offaly
2001: Galway v Kilkenny
2002: Kilkenny v Tipperary
2003: Kilkenny v Tipperary
2004: Cork v Kilkenny
2005: Cork v Clare
2006: Cork v Waterford
2007: Waterford v Limerick 2
2008: Tipperary v Waterford
2009: Kilkenny v Tipperary
2010: Tipperary v Galway
2011: Kilkenny v Tipperary
2012: Kilkenny v Galway draw
2013: Cork v Kilkenny
2014: Kilkenny v Tipperary draw
2015: Galway v Tipperary
2016: Kilkenny v Waterford replay
2017: Galway v Tipp
2018: Galway v Clare replay
2019: Limerick v Kilkenny
2020: Limerick v Galway
2021: Limerick v Tipperary
2022: Limerick v Clare
2023: Kilkenny v Clare

[EstebanSexface]

Such shite.

Anyway. TJ Reid is a savage hurler and even with his age I’m concerned he’ll put in a match winning performance Sunday.

He is incomparable

[iron_mike]

@peddlerscross

For completenes, Galway v Kilkenny (Draw) was the game in 2012 while in 2018 it was Cork v Limerick (when Cork were coasting to victory and the official gave Limerick about six sympathy frees in a row to make it respectable but it ended up being a sick joke going badly wrong)

By all accounts “the game of 2023” is the challenge match between Tipp and wexford below in Carrick a few months back

[Biff_Egan]

The Tipp v Clare Munster Final 2023 was a damp squid though. You’d barely know it was on. Bloody split season

[Batigol]

He’s an animal

[glasagusban]

That’s definitive.