Hurling 2025

[marty34]

Big win for Tipp.  Cahill will be happy.  They have a good few warriors in there for winter hurling.

Galway had a good few light lads who were bullied by Tipp.

[johnnycool]

Big win for Tipp.  Cahill will be happy.  They have a good few warriors in there for winter hurling.

Galway had a good few light lads who were bullied by Tipp.

Tipp like Kilkenny have kept a strong spine to their team to help blood these young lads and Ormonde and McCarthy do look handy enough for 19/20 yo's..
Galway looked poor and disjointed, O'Donoghue has his work cut out for him here as it looks like he's needing a new defensive spine to his team, not sure Fintan Burke has the pace, but the game was played on a bog of a pitch so really hard to tell. Liam Collins will benefit from a drying out of the sod later in the year, but at the moment it looks like both they and Wexford are favourites for the drop down into 1B.

Clare gave a lot of their panel a run out yesterday and were probably unlucky to get beat by 2 by KK who's a lot more of their starting 15 on display, Lohan won't be overly disappointed in that result.
Lyng is trying to get KK defenders to play out and for the most part they did that and then hit diagonal balls into Cody and Mossy Keoghan, Cody was the difference in the winning and losing of that game yesterday, he'll need more support later in the year, Donnelly and Mullen will add that. Still not convinced by Drennan and Billy Ryan though.
Paddy Deegan had 12 on his back yesterday. They need to find his position and stick to it at this stage, but much of that will depend on David Blanchfield making a go of the centre back spot which he did well in, but was uncomfortable with Reidy and Rory Hayes running at him at different times yesterday.

By the sounds of it Dublin are trying to bring a physicality to their hurling, a recent friendly v Tipp was supposed to have been littered with melees and rough housing, they'll need to maintain that when the bigger teams are there, but I suppose they're favourites along with Waterford to come up from 1B.

[Milltown Row2]

Thought Billy Ryan was poor enough yesterday, Kilkenny played well enough, not brilliant, but managed to find the scores to stay ahead and managed to see the game out

Galway were very poor, yes after the game the night before and all the weather they had it was a miracle the game went ahead, but it was the same for both and Tipp have defo been training a lot longer 'preseason' I'd say as their physicality was distinctly different to the hosts.

Wexford will struggle unless they have their main players back and that doesn't seem to be happening any time soon 

[ClubScene13]

No Cork v Limerick on tv this weekend? Don't see it mentioned anywhere - a shame they are expecting 30,000 in Cork for it. Maybe GAA Go announce it later in the week.

[Saffrongael]

No Cork v Limerick on tv this weekend? Don't see it mentioned anywhere - a shame they are expecting 30,000 in Cork for it. Maybe GAA Go announce it later in the week.

No, RTE said today they requested to show the fixture but could not reach an accommodation with the two counties. About an earlier time I assume

[Milltown Row2]

No Cork v Limerick on tv this weekend? Don't see it mentioned anywhere - a shame they are expecting 30,000 in Cork for it. Maybe GAA Go announce it later in the week.

No, RTE said today they requested to show the fixture but could not reach an accommodation with the two counties. About an earlier time I assume

But no doubt there will be 'The new rules' line up game, I seen on TG4 that they even had a ref explaining the rules..

[5times5times]

Hurling folk crying once again... Their league is as useless and pointless as their round robin...

Isnt the blame on TG4 for showing the big ball instead?

[marty34]

No. Cork GAA don't want fans to miss out watching the rugby game. Hence they not going to change the time of game to clash.

[5times5times]

No. Cork GAA don't want fans to miss out watching the rugby game. Hence they not going to change the time of game to clash.

Do Cork CB really believe that they care more about the egg ball in D4, than repaying their stadium debts?

Why not just come out and tell the truth.

Hurling league is pointless, with same teams playing every single year.

Yaps

[Milltown Row2]

No. Cork GAA don't want fans to miss out watching the rugby game. Hence they not going to change the time of game to clash.

Do Cork CB really believe that they care more about the egg ball in D4, than repaying their stadium debts?

Why not just come out and tell the truth.

Hurling league is pointless, with same teams playing every single year.

Yaps

No. Cork GAA don't want fans to miss out watching the rugby game. Hence they not going to change the time of game to clash.

Do Cork CB really believe that they care more about the egg ball in D4, than repaying their stadium debts?

Why not just come out and tell the truth.

Hurling league is pointless, with same teams playing every single year.

Yaps

I wouldn't say football had a lot of variety over the years, trying to split Dublin lol

[Armagh18]

Hurling folk crying once again... Their league is as useless and pointless as their round robin...

Isnt the blame on TG4 for showing the big ball instead?

Football isn't much better, but sure the league is good craic for blooding young lads.

[didlyi]

No. Cork GAA don't want fans to miss out watching the rugby game. Hence they not going to change the time of game to clash.

Do Cork CB really believe that they care more about the egg ball in D4, than repaying their stadium debts?

Why not just come out and tell the truth.

Hurling league is pointless, with same teams playing every single year.

Yaps

Number of League winners in last 10 Years
Hurling =5
Football=4

[Dagda Moore]

Hurling folk crying once again... Their league is as useless and pointless as their round robin...

Isnt the blame on TG4 for showing the big ball instead?

A 'football snob'!? Weird. Never thought they existed! Hahaha!

[johnnycool]

No. Cork GAA don't want fans to miss out watching the rugby game. Hence they not going to change the time of game to clash.

Do Cork CB really believe that they care more about the egg ball in D4, than repaying their stadium debts?

Why not just come out and tell the truth.

Hurling league is pointless, with same teams playing every single year.

Yaps

If you are implying that going head to head with the Rugby in Dublin would impact on the gate adversely then I think that's obvious, why would Cork shot themselves in the foot?

As for the league, it's now back to a Div1a and Div1b so there's now a bit of jeopardy in terms of relegation and promotion which may in fact help with the competitiveness of it which had been lacking the least few years although also having the league final not so close to the start of the championship should also help in that regard.
You sometimes got the feeling that if a team was to play championship two weeks later they were holding back on the strength of the team on the field.

Not every game can be live on TV, it never was so why expect it now?

[johnnycool]

Limerick naming a very strong team for the trip to Cork, they must mean to put manners on Cork for the championship defeats last year.

Would be well worth the watch.