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If we can press in the forward line like Wexford did, force the galway defence into mistakes, theres no reason why we cant give them a game too.

Obviously Dublin first, cant wait to see if we've a bit about us or did we catch wexford on a very off day

Dublin are a bit wishy, washy too, so Antrim shouldn't be going into the game fearing them one jot.

Headline ... 'It's mad' – Rio Ferdinand predicts Premier League chaos over Man City's 115 charges

Is anything ever not 'mad' in that fellas head, brief respite from illegal I suppose

Maybe one day he'll say madly illegal and his head will explode

Ironic of course the same fella swerved a drug test, both illegal and mad

Man city are getting the all clear by all accounts. The FA are just stalling as to how they can back track out of the whole mess without pissing off loads of fans

They won't get the all clear, but they look to be changing the punishments so that it's no longer a points deduction, but a "super tax" or fines based approach which will suit the likes of City down to the ground.

Time to target the clubs with huge debts leveraged against stadiums and "future" earnings.

Not what I would tend to associate with Tipperary hurling

https://m.independent.ie/sport/gaelic-games/hurling/we-tend-to-love-a-good-failure-in-tipp-that-is-what-disappoints-me-the-most-liam-cahill-hits-back-at-critics/a966970394.html

Taking a swipe at his critics in the county he declared: "We tend to love a good failure in Tipp. That is what disappoints me the most. We tend to love a good failure."

Cahill would be better shutting up and concentrating on his team.

They were out-hurled for the most part by Waterford but they hung on in there and salvaged a draw.

I thought Bonnar Maher was lucky to avoid a red card for his mistimed shoulder/raised elbow which connected with Lyons. He was probably saved by the fact he was only on the field a few minutes before.

Not sure what the ref was doing running across the goals before the penalty was struck, I've never saw anything like that before and really should have been retaken, not that I think it would have changed the end result, but who knows!

Waterford somehow allowed a Tipp man in acres of space twice in injury time to take a puckout unopposed well inside their own half, I find that staggering also at this level, but the Tipp lads have given themselves a fighting chance for third place.

With Israel on display, favourites or not, Ireland should pull out of this shítshow.

And some people think America is a democracy.

It was never a democracy.

It was only a matter of which one from the ruling elites takes control every four years.

The UK is more or less the same at this point.

Rasharkin jumps out at me!

Still happens in Kircubbin on the 12th morning I believe.

The local bands from Portavogie, Cloughy etc would get out of their buses and parade around one of the local estates, almost 90% nationalist and then get back on their busses to the main parade wherever.

There used to be a band "from" Portaferry do the same, but they've dwindled away to next to nothing and I don't think any of them are local to Portaferry at all now. All a bit of a sad spectacle at this point.

The hurling league (possibly more so division one) was no more than friendlies this year.

And that's the way the top teams wanted it.

The previous iteration of the league at the top level was far more cut-throat with proper relegation etc etc and they went and changed it.

Kids are inspired by sporting breakthroughs  on the field. This is well understood in the Glens. If you want something to be important, make it important.

Whilst Antrim have produced a big result in the Leinster championship, the players and those same kids know their best route to an AI Final is with their clubs.

Club hurling is still king in Antrim.

What's people's take on Chelsea and Pochettino? Gets a very easy ride from the press compared to Utd, although if they win tonight they'll only be 3 points behind them.

With that squad though, surely they should be contenders. If they have everyone fit next year, a good manager should be at least competing for CL, and if City regress, a title. If they can't, you'd imagine huge financial implications are coming down the line.

They definitely worked their socks off in that last game against Villa. 

In the second half, yes, they were dung in the first half, but that's the inconsistency of Chelsea and must be frustrating for Poch.

Is there only a 1 week break after three games in Leinster?

I'm not convinced Shefflin is cutting it with Galway.

Cork are really up against it now and will have to beat Limerick or I would say they're out. Waterford need to beat Tipp or they're likely out too and same if Tipp don't beat Waterford. Tipp beating Waterford would help Cork a bi though.

I think Galway and Dublin should switch managers, O'D looks completely lost with Dublin doesn't seem to know how to progress them. Shefflin doesn't seem to be getting a tune out of Galway and IMO hasn't improved them either.

O'D back to Galway where he at least was passionate about it and knows the players, Shefflin to Dublin to bring that big name bounce and attract more players to the Dublin set up.

Both currently treading water and going no where fast.

Would Henry look to come up to Antrim after Darren steps back?

Cork job beckons for Henry

Darren may get total redemption in Tipp if Cahill doesn't get them out of Munster

The comparison would be Dublin not Derry...

Cork will need to beat limerick now which if limerick have qualified is I suppose a possibility.

Agree re Dublin. What McGuinness did was completely nullify Derry's tactics. Beating Limerick will require something special that is similar.

McGuinness didn't beat Derry by trying to be better at what Derry excel at, he looked at their strengths and used that against them, the high press on the Donegal kick out, their keeper just booted it beyond the press and they'd runners hitting that space beyond the press once the big men flicked the ball into it.

Smart enough, but for Derry to persist in the "process" which had been worked out spoke of a team overcoached.


To beat Limerick you avoid the intensity and congested areas, have the scorers 70 metres from goals working the ball in pods to get the long range shots off and you'll need a very high percentage of scores going over for it to work.
If that doesn't pull out their deep lying half forwards then nothing will.
Then once they come out chasing the game you need to hit the spaces they leave behind

Limerick rode their luck against Clare. The goal that gave them momentum was from a mishit free aside from the square ball shouts and a bit of poor goal keeping, but Clare couldn't respond like they did against Cork.

Clare do have the physique to compete against Limerick, but they've questions to answer about their mental fortitude in Munster finals and AI semi-finals where they've probably been the better teams but lapses in concentration have been their undoing.

Galway didn't show much in Salthill to suggest they've improved this year, but Leinster doesn't heat up for another few weeks.

Tipp, Cork and Waterford need to be smarter if they want to challenge Limerick or the bottom line is they just aren't good enough no matter how you cut it.

The 2 provinces are unbalanced. There is too much competition  in Munster and not enough in Leinster. Antrim beating Wexford is huge but it won't fix the problem.

To an extent.

Before both campaigns kicked off you'd have put good money on a KK v Galway final in Leinster and Limerick and Clare contesting the Munster final.

After two rounds in both I think the bet would still be very safe.

The battle for third is really the only thing on offer in both provinces with Waterford and Antrim throwing a bit of a spanner in the works.

Makes more sense now, definite second yellow a moment of madness unfortunately.

Serious questions to be answered by Tipp now after that performance, no point picking big men to compete physically with Limerick as they have the physicality and the hurling to go with it.

They did go with the physicality and it lasted about 30 minutes before Limerick wore them down.

You need the hurling to keep that going, which is strange as Tipp always pride themselves on their hurling.

Liam Cahill may have to get back to a Tipp identity rather than trying to match Limerick at what they are good at.
Easier said than done though.


Cork are Cork, Clare when they got into their stride opened them up at will, but Clare being Clare also conceded a few soft scores to keep it interesting right to the end.

Cork have a fierce uphill battle to get third spot now and IMO that spot depends on Tipp and Waterford this weekend.
Waterford may well be favourites after yesterday, but surely Tipp will offer a lot more in Semple stadium in what is a knock out fixture for them.

Antrim have put the cat among the pigeons in Leinster, Wexford are in dire straits with Kilkenny and Galway yet to come.
Antrim get a result against the Dubs and they could claim that third spot, but the lollipops aren't a pushover either for these teams fighting for the third spot.

That is a fantastic result. The Dublin game will be very interesting now.

On another note how many goals did Joe McLaughlin score against ballygalget? I saw on cushendall twitter some updates and it just seemed to be Joe McLaughlin goal repeatedly.

Is he still on the county panel?

Yeah he was a non playing sub yesterday

I think at the minute I could score a half dozen goals against our lads, awful altogether.
Div2 here we come.



Good win for Antrim, now playing from more like a full panel and winning a game that really matters.

Dublin won't be taking you lightly for sure now.