Hurling 2026

[mouview]

Waterford excellent odds at 4/1. Due to come out of Muster

Will you start backing Cork, so that they lose? 


Waterford are the unluckiest shower going, but they are a few players short of a good enough team to come out of Munster sadly.

Clare, yet again relying on Quilligan to pull off a great save in the dying minutes to repel the Waterford fightback.

They're defence as it currently stands will get ripped a new one by the reset of the teams in Munster unless they can shore it up somehow.

Tipp are a good bit short as expected, Maher looks a good bit of the levels he was last year and was probably fortunate Cork didn't play a whole pile of ball directly in there.
Tipp's touch is way off as well, and Cork being Cork will go to town on you if you're off it.

The final score flattered Tipp.

So much for Kilkenny 'bludgeoning Galway into submission'!!!!

Waterford are unlucky in particular with injuries. Had they a full squad to call on yesterday, they would probably have squeaked over the line. Home advantage will stand to them next weekend but Liam Cahill will undoubtedly freshen up the Tipp team a bit; I'd expect Tynan, O'Farrell, maybe McCarthy and O'Reilly all to start. Hard to see what Clare can do to shore up the defence, they just don't have the quality in the central positions. A couple of their newer forwards, Rynne, Stritch, look quite promising but they have to sacrifice Tony Kelly a bit by playing him in midfield. Limerick when they visit won't be nearly as accommodating as the Deise.

[Lamps]

It confirmed what we knew already. Tipperary are the worst team to win the All Ireland since colour television.
That's not much comfort for Cork right now though.

[johnnycool]

Waterford excellent odds at 4/1. Due to come out of Muster

Will you start backing Cork, so that they lose? 


Waterford are the unluckiest shower going, but they are a few players short of a good enough team to come out of Munster sadly.

Clare, yet again relying on Quilligan to pull off a great save in the dying minutes to repel the Waterford fightback.

They're defence as it currently stands will get ripped a new one by the reset of the teams in Munster unless they can shore it up somehow.

Tipp are a good bit short as expected, Maher looks a good bit of the levels he was last year and was probably fortunate Cork didn't play a whole pile of ball directly in there.
Tipp's touch is way off as well, and Cork being Cork will go to town on you if you're off it.

The final score flattered Tipp.

So much for Kilkenny 'bludgeoning Galway into submission'!!!!

Waterford are unlucky in particular with injuries. Had they a full squad to call on yesterday, they would probably have squeaked over the line. Home advantage will stand to them next weekend but Liam Cahill will undoubtedly freshen up the Tipp team a bit; I'd expect Tynan, O'Farrell, maybe McCarthy and O'Reilly all to start. Hard to see what Clare can do to shore up the defence, they just don't have the quality in the central positions. A couple of their newer forwards, Rynne, Stritch, look quite promising but they have to sacrifice Tony Kelly a bit by playing him in midfield. Limerick when they visit won't be nearly as accommodating as the Deise.

yeah, got that one so wrong. Kilkenny were so far off the pace they couldn't impose any physicality onto Galway even if John Donnelly tried his best and rightly got the red card.

Playing Kelly in midfield is something Clare did do a few years back but was too easy to bottle him up in there by putting a Mikey Butler type player on him, plus defensively he was sweeping up lose ball.
What they need is an enforcer who can win the rucks, take the hits and drive out with the ball, 3 or 4 years younger John Conlon type player.

[johnnycool]

Durty hoor

Darragh Fitzgibbon needs a respective 3 game ban for this.

Putting his hurl in the face of a fan after the game...

[Fogarty]

Wicklow had a good bounce back in the Christy Ring over Derry.
I think we'll record wins over Meath and Roscommon but Kerry are going to walk it with Donegal getting to the final.

[seafoid]

Waterford excellent odds at 4/1. Due to come out of Muster

Will you start backing Cork, so that they lose? 


Waterford are the unluckiest shower going, but they are a few players short of a good enough team to come out of Munster sadly.

Clare, yet again relying on Quilligan to pull off a great save in the dying minutes to repel the Waterford fightback.

They're defence as it currently stands will get ripped a new one by the reset of the teams in Munster unless they can shore it up somehow.

Tipp are a good bit short as expected, Maher looks a good bit of the levels he was last year and was probably fortunate Cork didn't play a whole pile of ball directly in there.
Tipp's touch is way off as well, and Cork being Cork will go to town on you if you're off it.

The final score flattered Tipp.

Tipp will have the touch in June

[Deerstalker]

Tipps shooting efficiency (76%)kept them in it when they did get a shot off. Only 5 wides to Corks 15

[mouview]

It confirmed what we knew already. Tipperary are the worst team to win the All Ireland since colour television.
That's not much comfort for Cork right now though.

No worse than Clare the preceding year. Lucky enough to win the final itself, (ref missed jersey pull on Cork forward in last play), didn't come out of Munster following season.

[johnnycool]

It confirmed what we knew already. Tipperary are the worst team to win the All Ireland since colour television.
That's not much comfort for Cork right now though.

No worse than Clare the preceding year. Lucky enough to win the final itself, (ref missed jersey pull on Cork forward in last play), didn't come out of Munster following season.

Too many celebratory club dinners and juvenile presentations have taken their edge of the players.

The old saying used to be you were a hero in a lot of counties with 1 AI medal whereas in Kilkenny there's more AI's down the back of some players couches.

[johnnycool]

Waterford excellent odds at 4/1. Due to come out of Muster

Will you start backing Cork, so that they lose? 


Waterford are the unluckiest shower going, but they are a few players short of a good enough team to come out of Munster sadly.

Clare, yet again relying on Quilligan to pull off a great save in the dying minutes to repel the Waterford fightback.

They're defence as it currently stands will get ripped a new one by the reset of the teams in Munster unless they can shore it up somehow.

Tipp are a good bit short as expected, Maher looks a good bit of the levels he was last year and was probably fortunate Cork didn't play a whole pile of ball directly in there.
Tipp's touch is way off as well, and Cork being Cork will go to town on you if you're off it.

The final score flattered Tipp.

So much for Kilkenny 'bludgeoning Galway into submission'!!!!

Waterford are unlucky in particular with injuries. Had they a full squad to call on yesterday, they would probably have squeaked over the line. Home advantage will stand to them next weekend but Liam Cahill will undoubtedly freshen up the Tipp team a bit; I'd expect Tynan, O'Farrell, maybe McCarthy and O'Reilly all to start. Hard to see what Clare can do to shore up the defence, they just don't have the quality in the central positions. A couple of their newer forwards, Rynne, Stritch, look quite promising but they have to sacrifice Tony Kelly a bit by playing him in midfield. Limerick when they visit won't be nearly as accommodating as the Deise.

May I ask, what would you consider a good year for Galway hurling?

A Leinster Title and AI appearance for me would be a serious achievement for this group, but you just never know.

[Genocide Organ]

May I ask, what would you consider a good year for Galway hurling?

A Leinster Title and AI appearance for me would be a serious achievement for this group, but you just never know.

Leinster hurling is like Tier 2 now. Be some craic if KK don't get out of it - but the rest are so bad, they're bound to.

[moonster]

Waterford excellent odds at 4/1. Due to come out of Muster

Will you start backing Cork, so that they lose? 


Waterford are the unluckiest shower going, but they are a few players short of a good enough team to come out of Munster sadly.

Clare, yet again relying on Quilligan to pull off a great save in the dying minutes to repel the Waterford fightback.

They're defence as it currently stands will get ripped a new one by the reset of the teams in Munster unless they can shore it up somehow.

Tipp are a good bit short as expected, Maher looks a good bit of the levels he was last year and was probably fortunate Cork didn't play a whole pile of ball directly in there.
Tipp's touch is way off as well, and Cork being Cork will go to town on you if you're off it.

The final score flattered Tipp.

Waterford for the wooden spoon now. Clare no better than them. All about Cork and Limerick and Tipp coming in the backdoor

[marty34]

Big week-end of hurling with the opening of the Leinster and Munster Championships. With 6 teams in Leinster, it works out and even 3 V 3 in comparsion to a team sitting out in Munster.

I thought, wrongly, that KK would have brought the anger of a county to Salthill on Saturday afternoon. How wrong I was! They were as bad as they were there in the recent league game...and that was brutal.

9pts from play. 1-16 in total is not good. Would hardly win a half of hurling nowadays. Their build up play was very ponderous. Always wanted to take that extra pass and got no further forward. Major stat was only Cody got 2pts or more from play - no other player did. Compare this to other counties and individual lads hitting 3, 4 and 5pts from play.

Outwith Scruff Murphy, their bench is very weak and inexperienced also. Nobody coming on to change a game. Where does Lyng, Brennan, Rice and Corcoran go from here. Wexford, Dublin and Offaly will all fancy taking a cut off them.


Galway were very businesslike. Rory Burke got the goals at the right time. I don't think Deegan is a corner back and he was turned handy enough. Galway's young lads stood up well. It was more about them coming of age. They stood up well when Mannion and Whelan etc. were relatively quiet. Impressed with T. Killeen. Kept it simple. Galway need to keep focussed but strong favourites for Leinster title now on their recent performances.

Cracker game between Offaly and Dublin in Tullamore. Story of the week is Mitchell back playing hurling. Offaly will be gutted they didn't hold out for the win. Good score from D Burke to get the draw at the end. But that draw and 1 point will boost Offaly no end.  They're away to Kildare in the last game and if they have a couple more points in the bag by then, they'll be in the hunt for a spot in the top 3 in Leinster.


Sometimes a game just takes a life of it's own and this is true in this case. Plenty of goals, scores and excitement. Dublin happy to get the point. But they'll be confident of taking points off Wexford, Kilkenny and Kildare. So loads to play for yet. Dublin can point to the fact that they clawed back and got the draw game with seconds left. Evidence of character and skill combined - with the clock counting down.

Kildare stayed in the game V Wexford but Chin is still the man. He'll rack up the points. I still think, although Offaly have a point on the board already, that Kildare's main game is V Offaly. That game is Kildare's All-Ireland Final.  I think Wexford away next week-end is a huge game. If Wexford win that, KK will be on 0 pts after 2 games. Will it happen?

After Round 2, the tablw will take shape. An interesting week-end ahead.     

[EoinW]

Impressive 2nd half from Cork.  They usually dominate with a goal blitz and make it look so easy that when the goals don't come they never seem to have a Plan B.  Sunday they resembled Limerick.  I agree the final score flattered Tipp.

I wouldn't go so far as to say Tipperary are the worst AI champs since colour tv(who said we all have colour tv yet?).  Tipp beat KK(just ask Clare how hard that is to do in a SF) then won going away against an "unbeatable" Cork.  That's pretty impressive. The luck came from Limerick falling on its face.  Tipp took full advantage for a deserved AI.

As for the suggestion questioning Clare deserving an AI, it really shouldn't merit a response.  Clare won the league and AI!

Wasn't Conlon missing for the 2022 SF when KK destroyed Clare?  Kelly gets the hype and O'Donnell is the most exciting player in the game but I'd always had the impression that Conlon is the most important player.

[seafoid]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=owjMYhS25og