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[1,658 in Semple. I'd say it's a lonesome spot tonight.]

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1,658 in Semple. I'd say it's a lonesome spot tonight.

Waterford didn`t travel plus the Black and Tan Soccer ball Cup Final on at the same time . Tipp Hurley out today also so all in all I`m happy enough with the support at the Tipp game !

Why didn't Conor Sweeney play for Tipp yesterday and Stephen O Brien only introduced off the bench?

Both injured ! Good to see O`Brien coming on , Sweeney didn`t but was involved in the warm up , hope he is okay for next week .

[No idea]

Final scores:

Tipperary 0-20 Waterford 0-9
Clare 1-23 Limerick 0-14


Semi-finals:

Kerry v Clare in Killarney, Sunday 3 June at 3:30pm
Cork v Tipperary in Thurles, Saturday 26 May at 7pm.

Final on Saturday, 23 June at 7pm

Why is the Cork game not part of a double header?  What am I missing?  Tipp v Cork in both. Both games fixed for Thurles..... am I completely off Base here?

No idea...Munster Council made the change in early April.  If Waterford won, it would have been a double header on 3 June, so it must be Tipp football that didn't want to share the spotlight...assuming participating counties are allowed have an opinion. 


Or did Cork football not want to share?



















Or is it just about the money for the Munster Council?

If Tipp Football had any say in the matter the game wouldn`t be going ahead next weekend ! It is down to the Munster CCC and not Tipp Football who decides when and where games are played , no need to assume anything !

Haven't heard a word about Cork senior footballers In a long time ? Kerry should be watching their backs .

Cork backs are poor the Kerry forwards will score for fun against them if they play them.

If is the word and don`t write off Clare either , they are a dark horse who have performed well in the qualifiers over the last few years . They are due a big performance in Munster !

[I thought the ref was very poor (hope this part isn't picked up on)]

Holy f**k what a finish.

Savage. Madden has no real football since the Clare game and comes on and takes on that shot. Brilliant.
Thouhht Johnston was class when he came on too, point attempt aside.
And McVeety is just unreal, the best player on the field today by a distance.

We weren't great today. But they got the job done.

Madden is that sort of player. He can kick one from 40m of his left when his tail is up as he's bundles of ability. It's all about confidence. Tipp will feel very unlucky they lost but it's same with us maybe last week. Very little between top 3 teams so I'm delighted we just did enough. Only lead once in the game, 39 5 mins into 2nd half. Hard luck Tipp though a really good team that could do damage in Munster. Only advice id give is the management team would want to stop going mad on the sideline as it' just panics the players.

Well done, I'm a bit all over the place, I thought the ref was very poor (hope this part isn't picked up on) but not the losing of it, we kicked it away at the end with the chances we missed and also Cavan done a job on us aswell in a complimentary way towards ye. The match we threw away against roscommon was the one that cost us. Still gets at you the amount you hear today that Cavan shouldn't be losing to a hurling county and have no business in div 1 if "we can't beat the likes of tipp", there's not a whole lot if anything between tipp rossies and Cavan  (most on here would agree to be fair, not having a pop at this place). Bitterly disappointed I think next year will be easier finish 3rd last and survive division 1 than finish top 2 and get promoted. Best of luck to ye next year

The Ref was diabolical ! Enda Flanagan elbowed Fox in the Head in lead up to the second goal , panned out Bill Maher and went in hard on Evan Comerford and no action taken ! The linesman David Coldrick got Casey sent off and not for the first time he has been responsable for screwing Tipp !

Casey deserved to be sent off

I`ve heard different views on it however the 2 frees at the end of the game were bad calls and how do you explain Enda Flanagan getting away with 3 yellow/red card offences ?

Highlights on YouTube and rte player, looks to me like he swung a right arm. I agree and said I thought the ref was bad but that's coming from a very biased stance. I'd focus more on what we can control and this was yet another big game we were leading in the closing stages and couldn't see out the game when we should have.

Just seen it on Youtube , can`t see being any different from many challenges you would see in Football , yellow maybe . What you can see in the video is the Cavan Mentor beside Coldrick who was beside him and in his ear the whole game !

[I thought the ref was very poor (hope this part isn't picked up on)]

Holy f**k what a finish.

Savage. Madden has no real football since the Clare game and comes on and takes on that shot. Brilliant.
Thouhht Johnston was class when he came on too, point attempt aside.
And McVeety is just unreal, the best player on the field today by a distance.

We weren't great today. But they got the job done.

Madden is that sort of player. He can kick one from 40m of his left when his tail is up as he's bundles of ability. It's all about confidence. Tipp will feel very unlucky they lost but it's same with us maybe last week. Very little between top 3 teams so I'm delighted we just did enough. Only lead once in the game, 39 5 mins into 2nd half. Hard luck Tipp though a really good team that could do damage in Munster. Only advice id give is the management team would want to stop going mad on the sideline as it' just panics the players.

Well done, I'm a bit all over the place, I thought the ref was very poor (hope this part isn't picked up on) but not the losing of it, we kicked it away at the end with the chances we missed and also Cavan done a job on us aswell in a complimentary way towards ye. The match we threw away against roscommon was the one that cost us. Still gets at you the amount you hear today that Cavan shouldn't be losing to a hurling county and have no business in div 1 if "we can't beat the likes of tipp", there's not a whole lot if anything between tipp rossies and Cavan  (most on here would agree to be fair, not having a pop at this place). Bitterly disappointed I think next year will be easier finish 3rd last and survive division 1 than finish top 2 and get promoted. Best of luck to ye next year

The Ref was diabolical ! Enda Flanagan elbowed Fox in the Head in lead up to the second goal , panned out Bill Maher and went in hard on Evan Comerford and no action taken ! The linesman David Coldrick got Casey sent off and not for the first time he has been responsable for screwing Tipp !

Casey deserved to be sent off

I`ve heard different views on it however the 2 frees at the end of the game were bad calls and how do you explain Enda Flanagan getting away with 3 yellow/red card offences ?

[I thought the ref was very poor (hope this part isn't picked up on)]

Holy f**k what a finish.

Savage. Madden has no real football since the Clare game and comes on and takes on that shot. Brilliant.
Thouhht Johnston was class when he came on too, point attempt aside.
And McVeety is just unreal, the best player on the field today by a distance.

We weren't great today. But they got the job done.

Madden is that sort of player. He can kick one from 40m of his left when his tail is up as he's bundles of ability. It's all about confidence. Tipp will feel very unlucky they lost but it's same with us maybe last week. Very little between top 3 teams so I'm delighted we just did enough. Only lead once in the game, 39 5 mins into 2nd half. Hard luck Tipp though a really good team that could do damage in Munster. Only advice id give is the management team would want to stop going mad on the sideline as it' just panics the players.

Well done, I'm a bit all over the place, I thought the ref was very poor (hope this part isn't picked up on) but not the losing of it, we kicked it away at the end with the chances we missed and also Cavan done a job on us aswell in a complimentary way towards ye. The match we threw away against roscommon was the one that cost us. Still gets at you the amount you hear today that Cavan shouldn't be losing to a hurling county and have no business in div 1 if "we can't beat the likes of tipp", there's not a whole lot if anything between tipp rossies and Cavan  (most on here would agree to be fair, not having a pop at this place). Bitterly disappointed I think next year will be easier finish 3rd last and survive division 1 than finish top 2 and get promoted. Best of luck to ye next year

The Ref was diabolical ! Enda Flanagan elbowed Fox in the Head in lead up to the second goal , panned out Bill Maher and went in hard on Evan Comerford and no action taken ! The linesman David Coldrick got Casey sent off and not for the first time he has been responsable for screwing Tipp !

Evan Comerford having a dip form or the 2nd choice Tippearary goalkeeper just given some game time?

His kicking has been poor this year , kicking balls out over the sideline , failing to find Teammates etc !

pitch inspection in newry later

Passed an inspection @ 8:30 , another one @ 12:00 ! Ridiculous situation as I`m about to head to it in an hour`s time , should have made the final call @ 8:30 for the benefit of the Support particularly the away Support ! ! !

There isn't a snowball's chance in hell the match will be on. Even if the pitch is miraculously playable, for the safety of spectators, they will have to call it off.

Hearing that too , looks like it`s on toworrow ?

http://www.gaa.ie/news/allianz-league-fixture-postponements/

Nothing currently on gaa.ie about it, but I'm sure it'll be updated at some point. I'm no weather expert but I'm not sure if all the snow will be cleared by tomorrow afternoon. They'll probably refix it again for tomorrow anyway and reevaluate the situation in 24 hours.

I had planned to travel from Dublin. Not gonna bother. The clowns will prob call it off a 1.55.

True . Supporters Bus has left from Thurles now ! I`m not on it but am driving up .

pitch inspection in newry later

Passed an inspection @ 8:30 , another one @ 12:00 ! Ridiculous situation as I`m about to head to it in an hour`s time , should have made the final call @ 8:30 for the benefit of the Support particularly the away Support ! ! !

There isn't a snowball's chance in hell the match will be on. Even if the pitch is miraculously playable, for the safety of spectators, they will have to call it off.

Hearing that too , could be put back an hour or else played tomorrow ?

pitch inspection in newry later

Passed an inspection @ 8:30 , another one @ 12:00 ! Ridiculous situation as I`m about to head to it in an hour`s time , should have made the final call @ 8:30 for the benefit of the Support particularly the away Support ! ! !

Gwan Tipp Boy !

What a scalp for Tipp

Handy win for Tipp . Great composure in the last 10 minutes even after the Meath goal unlike the Roscommon game . Louth next and a win will see us safe anything after that is a bonus !

Few interesting ties coming up this weekend. I reckon that Tipp will beat Meath, Cork will have too much at home for Cavan, Roscommon will give Louth a decent beating, and hopefully Down will overcome Clare. It's a very tight division, with one slip up even at this stage meaning you could go from the promotion hunting places to fending off relegation. Having said that, I think that if Clare lose then it's curtains for them with Cork and Roscommon coming after.

Really tighten things up at the top if this is the case . Fancy Tipp in Thurles will do the job , Cork and Cavan will be close , You`re right about Clare , reckon they`ll be gone if they lose on Sunday ,!

[Tipp at the moment by the looks of it have a midfield that doesn't seem to working hard enough off the ball and have a very loose marking defence.]

Crazy division, tipp clare was probably the worst standard of a game youll see in the division all year. Theres no point predicting anything, im expecting louth to spring a surpise one weekend coming up, hopefully not on us. Looks like it will be one of them mad final days where teams can still either get promoted or relegated depending on results

Going by the highlights Clare looked the better side and could have scored a few goals. Tipp at the moment by the looks of it have a midfield that doesn't seem to working hard enough off the ball and have a very loose marking defence.

Div 2 very much a group of inconsistent teams.

Considering Tipp have added Pascal Kelleghan as Coach and he likes to set up with a solid Defence that breaks at pace with the ball !