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Size of bas?

No details given but surely the bas is the subject to change.

So motion 37 was passed. Central council will implement standards for hurley sizes. A step in the right direction IMO. Interesting to see how they will implement it and what the criteria will be.

Good article.
I have to laugh when certain pundits think VAR would be great for GAA. Our clearly defined 'steps' and 'handpass' rules are not so clear in practice. VAR would make a laugh of every play and the stops in play would be endless. So unless we change the definition of the rule or the rule themselves we havent a hope of ever having VAR in Hurling or Football. Its light years away.

Whatever happened to the chipped, weighed ball the Gaa were to introduce this year. It was to have an exact weight and rim dimensions and I thought it was being introduced at U20 level??
Not wanting to take away from the Great final yesterday but not a single thrown ball was blown by the ref. Will O Donoghue for example throws every pass he makes and hes not alone. If the refs start blowing the whistle again in January for this then its farcical.

Also a reflection that Hurling is a minority sport in 25 Counties and indeed is a micro sport in 10 or 12 of them.

Ye were beaten again this year by a hurling county and not the most populous either. How do you explain that?

Fair play to both teams. A Great final, up there with 2014.

I see there are terrace tickets on sale on ticketmaster for the Hurkey stuff Final

Probably for the Nally Stand?

I wonder will RTÉ atill have their box outside also?

Hill16, upper and lower canal end tickets was also on sale.  Currently on sale is the Nally and restricted view tickets in section 723 the restriction would be the big screen and seagulls flying around. Charging 45 euros for those tickets

Anyone ever remember that happening before? Even for a replay? You always know with kk playing tickets will be easier to get, but to go on general sale? Limerick is a big county going for 3 in a row, and then is the first of those 3 that many supporters would get a chance to attend.

Most recently the 2019,2016 and 2014 replay All Ireland hurling finals went on general sale.

And the common denominator in all those finals as well as this year is KK

Any other hurling counties play each other and you wouldn't have tickets flying around

Very true re KK. I also get the feeling that they are not fully behind this team yet. Maybe that will change later. Given their achievements you could forgive them I suppose.

A few Nally Stand tickets on Ticketmaster today

There was some on general sale in 2019 as well. Hurling doesn't have the same pool of neutrals interested in going and Kilkenny is a small county population wise.

You would want to be a real die hard neutral to spend the money required to see this game. Most neutral hurling fans do not live in Dublin. The main reason for the fall off in ticket sales is cost and other factors maybe no minor match, people on holidays or other events.

Liam Cahill gone from Waterford. Can only imagine taking up the Tipperary job. Derek McGrath or Davy Fitz for the Waterford job possibly.

Davy or Dell. Cant decide which would be worse for Waterford.

What really frustrates me about the modern game is when a players with the ball in hand gets surrounded by 3 or 4 players he has the easy option of handpassing 'throwing' the ball out of the tackle. It ridicules all the hard work of defending. If the defenders manage to stop him they will most likely have to foul him with a spare hand so now we have another layer of issues with the handpass.
Most legitimate one handed handpasses are fancy throws TBH and when there are too many of them it waters down the skill factor in the game. I sincerely hope something is done soon, it has to happen!

If Croke keep at the ref's to be more stringent on the handpass, blow for it if its not definitive, some passes that have been pulled for throws have actually when slowed down and checked at various angles have been a handpass.. so either handpass off the stick or allow the underhand 'throw' I wouldn't be for that though tbh.

Even the mention of allowing throws gets a negative reaction from everyone yet we continue to allow the rules to be broken so they can do exactly that. Only in GAA

What really frustrates me about the modern game is when a players with the ball in hand gets surrounded by 3 or 4 players he has the easy option of handpassing 'throwing' the ball out of the tackle. It ridicules all the hard work of defending. If the defenders manage to stop him they will most likely have to foul him with a spare hand so now we have another layer of issues with the handpass.
Most legitimate one handed handpasses are fancy throws TBH and when there are too many of them it waters down the skill factor in the game. I sincerely hope something is done soon, it has to happen!

You basically need to be a beast to play inter county hurling these days.

Tony Kelly, Shane O'Donnell and Cian Lynch etc. etc.

a) they're are exceptions to that rule though not that many and b) Lynch is built like a tank, look at the arms on Kelly and there's no way O'Donnell is running through boys the way he is unless he is strong as a bull.

They aint no beasts! There is still plenty of room for small players if your good enough. If your good and 6'4 then it helps for sure.

I thought it was a free out as well. Very disappointing for Offaly, they deserved the win.

The sunday game ignored the trip of the Offaly defender coming out with the ball. The ref should have given a free out and glory to Offaly.

And about 50 other fouls in the game including several thrown balls. If we are going to clean up the game then lets have a serious conversation about the rules rather than focusing on fouls in the last minute of big games.

Just fill the bottom tiers including the hill b4 selling any of the upper tiers.
Why have the minor finals been taken off the all Ireland final day card? Dreadful decision

Ask 25000 Offaly supporters would they rather spend over €60 on a ticket for the AI final in Croker and I think you will get you answer.

could semis not have been a double header or would it be to impractical.

The average attendance at Hurling semis must be around 55k so not a chance of that working and double headers are a disaster. There will be more Offaly supporters in Kilkenny today than Kilkenny supporters in Croker yesterday. The novelty element certainly accounts for that in these tough times financialy for supporters.