Messages

As far as im aware tipperary are training on tuesdays and fridays, im also pretty sure you can watch but i dont know the venues as this can change depending on whether the pitch is free etc. I could probably find out if you would like??

very good hurler who was the heart of the clare hurling team for the last couple of years. Its really the end of an era for clare hurling at this stage and hopefully they will get some new hurling talent into the county team soon as all of the 95 team and squad is pretty much finished at this stage

The standard of munster club hurling surely has to be asked today. hopefully while throwing that thought out- I'll get some reasoned debate rather than the bullshit I have to listen to on some of the nOrthern threads. I know De La Salle had a bad day- but they weren't a very good team anyway in all honesty bar a couple of players.

Munster club hurling has been below par for the last number of years, munster teams have won 3 out of the last 20 club all irelands, in that time 9 all irelands were won by galway, 4 by kilkenny and 4 by offaly. And looking at the teams coming out of munster at the moment, it will be a while before there is another winner from there.

On the all ireland county championship munster teams have won 7 of the last 20, with the rest going to leinster teams. So there seems to have been an overall decline in munster hurling in the modern era, with leinster hurling being more prominent overall.

There was a lot of talk about how bad leinster hurling had become last year and galway have since been introduced into the province. But with Dublin becoming more competitive, Offaly were resurgent last year and wexford will always be fairly competitive, was there really a need to put a galway team into the mix.

For Example people speak about how competitive munster hurling is. How come only three teams out of the province have won an all ireland in the last 20 years?? The exact amount as leinster.

It was strange to see Wexford outmuscle a team (considering we have had such a small team over the last few years), your backs really need to stand up and not get dominated. Banville won't have it as easy next time

Yeah, Wexford have looked like they drafted in the 7 dwarves to their panel in recent years.
Banville is the type of player who looks a nightmare to mark. He makes himself so big under the dropping ball that a back would even struggle to get their stick near the ball, never mind their hand.
That's why David Kenny is so vital to Offaly. In the 2007 league relegation play off, Offaly conceded 6 goals to Limerick, mostly from high bombs not being dealth with. Kenny played full back the next year and the platform for Offaly beating Limerick last year was Kenny cleaning up everything that landed near the square and Offaly having a clean sheet.

Hopefully Wexford have shown Offaly their hand too early 

In the 2007 relegation play off Offaly conceded 6 goals to limerick, Paul Cleary was at fault for 5 of them and the loss was his fault nearly completely. Oakley is a better full back but playing stephen wynne at corner back is ridiculous, he will not cut it in the championship and how brendan omeara isnt getting on at corner or full back is a mystery to me.

Kenny is a brilliant player and has filled an important position in the offaly team. But im still dissapointed with the way offaly can be so up and down, years ago offaly never gave up and always fought right to the end, this particular team seems to become demoralised very easily and doesnt seem to have any spirit. Hopefully this can change this year