Them tipp pricks beat a weak KK team last setemper cc @caulifloweredneanderthal
According to clare posters there is no such thing as a soft all Ireland (cc 2013)
and tats a fact
So whatâs your point then?
Has any county given up a home qualifier draw in the history of the qualifiers?
I notice Westmeath didnât offer to travel to Thurles for any potential football qualifier in return.
Weâve given home advantage to Westmeath multiple times in recent seasons at various levels. We did it, I believe, in the 2006 Leinster championship and we did it in U21s. Tipp could play Westmeath 1000 times and theyâd never beat ye.
Tipp could have taken the simple opportunity to promote the game in a growing area but instead theyâd rather be parochially myopic about it. Hurling people in Westmeath would be delighted to have the All Ireland champions come to town. Kids get to see how the big guns play etc⌠NahâŚ
How many people do you need to attend to break even for a match in Semple stadium? I expect the Tipp county board made a financial loss as well missing an open goal in a PR sense.
Wall to wall dumb.
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Youâve given two examples where Kilkenny did it neither in a knock out qualifier match.
Tipp county board werenât being parochially myopic when the panel spent the weekend in Antrim promoting the game back in January.
They are playing another knock-out match next Saturday and the only interests the county board should be serving in this case are those of their senior hurling team.
So, in short again, fuck off with yourself.
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Screaming mullalys whoâll be ringing joe Duffy giving out about it when it doesnât have any direct effect on their own county
Just because Kilkenny did it for a Leinster QF 11 years ago. 
An absolute disgrace that Tipperary fulfilled a fixture as per the draw.
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So just to be clear, what you are saying is Tipp wouldnât play Westmeath in Westmeath because the oppressive level of travel (60 miles) to Westmeath would be damaging to Tipp in any possible future fixtures 7 full days later and they were also concerned that giving up home advantage could give Westmeath an insurmountable edge.
But itâs not selfish at all because Tipp went on the piss in Antrim for a couple of nights in January. And that should certainly give Antrim the impetus they need to progress quickly in 2017.
Itâs a patheticly hollow argument. That Cork match did some number on ye. All the insecurities have flooded back. Heavy is the Tipp head that wears the crown.
Kilkenny played in Westmeath in U21 last year in a knock out game and got knocked out! But so what? The game as a whole matters more. Westmeath hurling got a huge lift from it. We played them in Westmeath again this year in U21. We havenât played them in senior since we gave them home advantage last time. Had we drawn them Iâd be surprised if we didnât play in Westmeath.
Ye would never have lost. And ye would have done some good for an up and coming county. But Tipp just donât get it because theyâre too insular.
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Draw and venue prediction:
Dublin v Waterford (Portlaoise)
Tipperary v Kilkenny (A day of speculation before coin toss is agreed and Nowlan Park gets it)
Again, give me one example of a county willingly cedeing home advantage in a knock out qualifier since the qualifiers began, one?
Include football as well.
The Connaught football teams cede home advantage to New York every year in the first round.
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Why so defensive ?
Is it because you know that Kilkenny with Mick Fennelly are the rightful All Ireland hurling champions.
Thatâs what everyone else believes
The north dub who supports tipp wouldnât realise that.
Knock-out qualifiers mate.
When is the next draw?
Alright me aul cocker, any sign of Eoin Reddan around the place?
8.30 in the morning.
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