Tipperary GAA 2025

[flattythehurdler]

@Batigol

think hurling could be looking at a serious issue regarding how lopsided the championships are. Munster is streets ahead at present

It’s Munster keeping it this way though. Open draw would be much better.

[flattythehurdler]

@peddlerscross

Tipp lads sticking their chests out is one of the finest sights in sport.

And Tipp ladies

[peddlerscross]

I think it goes back to the outset of '87 when Babs and Lowry sat down and agreed, ‘we’re not good at the moment, but we’re going to look good anyway’. The blazers, tracksuits and shiny new boots came from that and the tradition of Tipp teams looking good has maintained ever since.

[Fat_Pox]

He was their best player this year. @downyourthroats should confirm

[flattythehurdler]

@StoneCold

A dog with a mallet up it’s hole would look fine against Laois

He’d probably start without a mallet up his hole mind.

[YellowBib]

He was so good he didn’t start the semi final

[Bandage]

@flattythehurdler

And Tipp ladies

When I was a chap, Wexford were in the midst of a Leinster title drought. If they beat Kilkenny then Offaly would turn them over & vice versa but 1996 changed all that & we had the opportunity to face the best of the rest in Croke Park. This gave us the passport to sample sights outside our usual Leinster wheelhouse. Galway & Limerick were defeated in that memorable year but I don’t recall anything about their fair maidens, presumably a horrific combination of crusty & rural yokels. But the Leinster repeat in 1997 brought us to a semi-final against Tipperary. My goodness…these women were goddesses with their tight white trousers, naturally tanned complexions & general sassiness. An intoxicating mix of Mawdsley, Gemma Hayes & Roz Purcell types, even the way they unwrapped the tinfoil from sandwiches in O’Connell Schools car park was absolutely tantalising. I’ve always loved Tipperary & their women since that match, even though they timbered Wexford off the field that day.

[StoneCold]

Were tight white trousers “in vogue” in 1997?

[Bandage]

Seemingly in County Tipperary, yes.

[Fagan_ODowd]

Are Donncha Fahey and Seamus Kennedy the only two All Ireland senior winners from Clonmel?

[carryharry]

Theo?

[caulifloweredneanderthal]

Marlfield wouldn’t be seen as a town club though?

[johnnysachs]

Era it would

[caulifloweredneanderthal]

my local geography down there wouldn’t be the sharpest

[myboyblue]

[Whackersstud11]

We played an Inishlounaght lately in a seven aside tournament as a rebranded Marlifield team. Do they play in the championship at all?

[endakenny]

@Whackersstud11

We played an Inishlounaght lately in a seven aside tournament as a rebranded Marlifield team. Do they play in the championship at all?

Don’t think they enter the South junior B in the last few years.

[peddlerscross]

They have entered the world of ‘Social Hurling’ I think.

[johnnysachs]

Marlfield were in Junior B last year. When you lose enough games you drop to junior C then. A secondary conpetition. A mix of skinny lanky lads and small butty lads. Fellas with nobbly knees and fellas with no knees. Fathers and sons. A united nations of cast offs from other clubs. My auld lad organising field committee for a game they were playing last year and he’d never encountered the smell of Winter Green that met him when they trundled out of the dressing room. Every other fella had a knee strap.

[Mullach_Ide]

@johnnysachs

Marlfield were in Junior B last year. When you lose enough games you drop to junior C then. A secondary conpetition. A mix of skinny lanky lads and small butty lads. Fellas with nobbly knees and fellas with no knees. Fathers and sons. A united nations of cast offs from other clubs. My auld lad organising field committee for a game they were playing last year and he’d never encountered the smell of Winter Green that met him when they trundled out of the dressing room. Every other fella had a knee strap.

They won a few games last year to be fair to them.