Hurling 2022

[clonadmad]

Great win for Galway. Shef seems to be making a difference.
Loads of decent hurlers in the county.


Limerick got away with behaviour in the past but Hegarty didn't on Sunday.

Eddie Brennan has Donal Óg down to a tee when summing up his thoughts on Hegartys sending off on Sunday.

No complaints when the rock was throwing Tipp lads against the posts or the likes back in the day...

Limerick are indeed edgy enough in the tackle but so were Kilkenny in their pomp, lets not forget that. If you want to beat Limerick in the summer time you need to be prepared to face it head on and give as good as you get and if you don't you'll get eaten alive like Cork in the AI final.

Yes, maybe with Guillane getting away with a straight red vrs Tipp that referees are looking out for it and no harm in that, but Hegarty responded to getting a thump from a Galway man after he had been fouled (edit, the ball was deemed over the line but the game was stopped when the Galway man barged into him) and if we're to learn anything from the 5 reds dished out in the Tyrone, Armagh game for lads contributing to a melee then lets be consistent.

That same rule exists in both codes.

Eddie Brennan is in no position to lecture anyone,given what he did right before throw in,in the 2007 all ireland final

As cowardly an act as you'd see on any pitch anywhere

[johnnycool]

Great win for Galway. Shef seems to be making a difference.
Loads of decent hurlers in the county.


Limerick got away with behaviour in the past but Hegarty didn't on Sunday.

Eddie Brennan has Donal Óg down to a tee when summing up his thoughts on Hegartys sending off on Sunday.

No complaints when the rock was throwing Tipp lads against the posts or the likes back in the day...

Limerick are indeed edgy enough in the tackle but so were Kilkenny in their pomp, lets not forget that. If you want to beat Limerick in the summer time you need to be prepared to face it head on and give as good as you get and if you don't you'll get eaten alive like Cork in the AI final.

Yes, maybe with Guillane getting away with a straight red vrs Tipp that referees are looking out for it and no harm in that, but Hegarty responded to getting a thump from a Galway man after he had been fouled (edit, the ball was deemed over the line but the game was stopped when the Galway man barged into him) and if we're to learn anything from the 5 reds dished out in the Tyrone, Armagh game for lads contributing to a melee then lets be consistent.

That same rule exists in both codes.

Eddie Brennan is in no position to lecture anyone,given what he did right before throw in,in the 2007 all ireland final

As cowardly an act as you'd see on any pitch anywhere

Eddie never professes to be whiter than white though.
What he did was wrong but showed quite quickly that Limerick were undercooked going into that game. Seamus Hickey was a green horn at this level so was a easy touch for Eddie, but first chance some of the more seasoned Limerick defenders should have let Eddie know they were there as a team. None did, Limerick got wiped off the park.


Donal Óg blathers on as if purer than the driven snow. Sean Og, Gardiner, Curran, the rock, Niall McCarthy and co weren't a bit shy with the ash either when it came to it.

[Milltown Row2]

I remember the Rock gave McFaul a lesson at Casement one day, Brian gave him a bit of a swipe, nothing major, next ball that was cleared Brian was floored, not even a word was mentioned

[Milltown Row2]

Big win for Dublin tonight

[johnnycool]

Big win for Dublin tonight

Limerick and Cork got a bit feisty, no love lost here. Two red cards were merited even if Flanagans was a tad softer, he'd no need to leave the arm in like that, can have no complaints.

Cork put everything over the bar, were motoring well whereas Limerick were spluttering, missing passes, taking the wrong options with poor shooting, especially in the first half.

Kiely will be able to stir the troops from their slumber for real now and they've a bit of work to do before the Munster Championship kicks off and get themselves right again.

Wexford rolling on nicely themselves and finding that they have forwards who can play if given the support they've been lacking under the Davy era.

[seafoid]

It's all shadowboxing. Crazy to think there will be just 3 matches left at the start of July 

[johnnycool]

It's all shadowboxing. Crazy to think there will be just 3 matches left at the start of July

Loads of club games for you to feast on Seafoid.

The condensed Intercounty season is a blessing for the rank and file GAA member, probably the players too, journalists lest so.

[clonadmad]

It's all shadowboxing. Crazy to think there will be just 3 matches left at the start of July

No time for shadow boxing this year with the championship starting 2/3 weeks after the league final

There will be loads of hurling games starting end of July to accommodate 95% of hurlers in the county

[mouview]

It's all shadowboxing. Crazy to think there will be just 3 matches left at the start of July

Loads of club games for you to feast on Seafoid.

The condensed Intercounty season is a blessing for the rank and file GAA member, probably the players too, journalists lest so.

You don't look forward to the club games like county matches though. One of the great attractions of the long summer stretching out in front of you was the pleasure of marking out the weekends your county would (hopefully) be playing in. A bonus if it was bookended with an AI appearance in September. Only a small number of diehards go the the club matches, at least in the opening c'ship rounds. The system was changed for no real reason other than for it's sake and pandering to the clubs.

[johnnycool]

It's all shadowboxing. Crazy to think there will be just 3 matches left at the start of July

Loads of club games for you to feast on Seafoid.

The condensed Intercounty season is a blessing for the rank and file GAA member, probably the players too, journalists lest so.

You don't look forward to the club games like county matches though. One of the great attractions of the long summer stretching out in front of you was the pleasure of marking out the weekends your county would (hopefully) be playing in. A bonus if it was bookended with an AI appearance in September. Only a small number of diehards go the the club matches, at least in the opening c'ship rounds. The system was changed for no real reason other than for it's sake and pandering to the clubs.

Get more involved in the club game then!

it has always been a huge drain on the players and county boards having three or so weeks between knockout games, all the while the players are out every night or near enough training like monks.

The training/match ratio is much better now for an amateur player to hit a proper life/play balance.

The club players are getting games on dry sods for once.

[seafoid]

It's all shadowboxing. Crazy to think there will be just 3 matches left at the start of July

Loads of club games for you to feast on Seafoid.

The condensed Intercounty season is a blessing for the rank and file GAA member, probably the players too, journalists lest so.

With all due respect to Killimordaly vs Ardrahan it is never going to be an interesting as Galway vs Tipp.
We won our first modern era senior club title in 87 but it would have been very much in the shade of the Liam Mccarthy cup and beating KK in the final.

[mouview]

It's all shadowboxing. Crazy to think there will be just 3 matches left at the start of July

Loads of club games for you to feast on Seafoid.

The condensed Intercounty season is a blessing for the rank and file GAA member, probably the players too, journalists lest so.

You don't look forward to the club games like county matches though. One of the great attractions of the long summer stretching out in front of you was the pleasure of marking out the weekends your county would (hopefully) be playing in. A bonus if it was bookended with an AI appearance in September. Only a small number of diehards go the the club matches, at least in the opening c'ship rounds. The system was changed for no real reason other than for it's sake and pandering to the clubs.

Get more involved in the club game then!

it has always been a huge drain on the players and county boards having three or so weeks between knockout games, all the while the players are out every night or near enough training like monks.

The training/match ratio is much better now for an amateur player to hit a proper life/play balance.

The club players are getting games on dry sods for once.

I'm as stalwart a club member as there is. Club players have always played c'ship games on dry sods. The new system actually mitigates against it more as the c'ship stretches longer into the autumn and heavier pitches. Galway hurling final was in first week of December last.  Playing the opening rounds of the AI senior championships on April pitches will still won't be fully dried out will make a mockery of the competition.

[johnnycool]

The round robins in Munster and Leinster have given up more top notch hurling games than we've ever had in the history of the GAA, condensing those down to 6 weeks isn't so bad, so you get to see Galway play at least 4 games, heck, you even get home games now 

And now with Leinster finals, playoffs, quarterfinals, then finals we've more top level games than ever.

Back in the day you could have won a Munster title after two games and an AI after 3 FFS depending on the draw.

[seafoid]

The round robins in Munster and Leinster have given up more top notch hurling games than we've ever had in the history of the GAA, condensing those down to 6 weeks isn't so bad, so you get to see Galway play at least 4 games, heck, you even get home games now 

And now with Leinster finals, playoffs, quarterfinals, then finals we've more top level games than ever.

Back in the day you could have won a Munster title after two games and an AI after 3 FFS depending on the draw.

Timing is  everything.
I think the GAA is making a mistake leaving August and September to the competition
Hurling people on beaches in August will be talking about what ?

[clonadmad]

It's all shadowboxing. Crazy to think there will be just 3 matches left at the start of July

Loads of club games for you to feast on Seafoid.

The condensed Intercounty season is a blessing for the rank and file GAA member, probably the players too, journalists lest so.

You don't look forward to the club games like county matches though. One of the great attractions of the long summer stretching out in front of you was the pleasure of marking out the weekends your county would (hopefully) be playing in. A bonus if it was bookended with an AI appearance in September. Only a small number of diehards go the the club matches, at least in the opening c'ship rounds. The system was changed for no real reason other than for it's sake and pandering to the clubs.

Can't be pandering to the clubs who provide the county players in the first place and want a set calendar in good weather for 95% of the players

Some bandwagoners on here