Club Championships

OldMrBrennan83

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seligehgit

Four wides from placed balls for David Treacy.

BoroMan32

Treacy's missed frees are killing Cuala.

O'Callaghan trying to showboat by flicking the ball over a defender's head when they were 5 points up was a bit uncalled for also.

Great game of hurling for a neutral.

seligehgit

Some costly wides for Cuala

dastardly00

Really enjoying this!

seligehgit

Adrian Breen MOTM by a country mile.

OldMrBrennan83

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Fann Linn

Didn't seem to be 4 mins of stoppages.

zetecescort

seligehgit wrote: »

Four wides from placed balls for David Treacy.

One of the very few who do it right as per the rulebook, most others balance the ball on the hurley as they lift it

seligehgit

Con O Callaghan has excelled today.

BoroMan32

Fitness telling late on here, a few of the Na Piarsaigh defenders are flagging badly.

LuckyGent88

What a contest that was between two superb sides.

deiseindublin

Fab game of hurling, scoreline showed how fair a result the replay was last week.

seligehgit

Deserved win for Cuala,fantastic contest.

BoroMan32

Wonderful game, credit to both sides.

Na P left it behind them the last day with Dowling's missed free.

OldMrBrennan83

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Fann Linn

Delighted for Con. Now get your ass back to the Dublin footballers asap.

seligehgit

I think Sean Moran was given laoch na himeartha by Pat Fleury.

The Cuala backs in particular the half back line were immense under the high ball.

OldMrBrennan83

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Kerrydude1981

Can we just get rid of inter county hurling and just let the top club sides at it

Slattsy

What a game. Na Piarsiagh should have won the first game but Cuala certainly deserved winners today.

Powerhouse

zetecescort wrote: »

One of the very few who do it right as per the rulebook, most others balance the ball on the hurley as they lift it

Have you any link to this rule? I wasn’t aware the rules were so specific.

Powerhouse

Patww79 wrote: »

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Nice classy phrase anyway to use about a team that had they been beaten would have been losing their first knockout game in a few years. Neither team today would deserve a comment like that.

OldMrBrennan83

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Bonniedog

Great games. You would have to feel for Na Piarsiagh. Thought they had it when they drew level.

Cuala players have put in some hours over last few years and will be back out in Dublin SHC in a few weeks. Between club and badly needed break I would not be counting on seeing too many of them in Dublin jersey this year, and 6/7 of them - even minus the footallers! - would walk onto the team.

Powerhouse

Patww79 wrote: »

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I commented on the phrase - never mentioned my sensibilities. You are attributing to me emotions I never expressed in your rush to say something, anything, in reply. You needn’t have bothered. My comment was made and still stands. But your weekends must be interesting if you’ve heard the figure of speech “shat the bed” thousands of times. Everyone has their own context I suppose.

commonsense.

seligehgit wrote:

Con O Callaghan has excelled today.

He excelled in the last 15 minutes. But up to that he was well bottled up by Mike Casey (both days). Casey was a massive massive loss to Na P and arguably his injury cost them the title.

That and Dowlings missed free the last day to put them 4 up.

OldMrBrennan83

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zetecescort

Powerhouse wrote: »

Have you any link to this rule? I wasn’t aware the rules were so specific.

just did a bit of searching there, looks like I'm mistaken. rules only mention lift and strike, no mention of whether you can balance the ball on the hurley.

Tracey puts himself at a disadvantage imo though by not settling himself by balancing the ball before striking. have seen him have to chase the ball after lifting it too far away from himself and rush the strike

feargale

Bonniedog wrote: »

Great games. You would have to feel for Na Piarsiagh. Thought they had it when they drew level.

Cuala players have put in some hours over last few years and will be back out in Dublin SHC in a few weeks. Between club and badly needed break I would not be counting on seeing too many of them in Dublin jersey this year, and 6/7 of them - even minus the footallers! - would walk onto the team.

Dublin could have two top class football teams and still have a surplus. What an awful pity that hurling takes such a backseat in the capital because with a minimum of extra commitment Dublin could be very serious contenders for Liam McCarthy, for the double in fact. While one club doesn't make a county team, is it too much to hope that Cuala's continued success might prompt players and administrators to refocus?

Bonniedog

feargale wrote: »

Dublin could have two top class football teams and still have a surplus. What an awful pity that hurling takes such a backseat in the capital because with a minimum of extra commitment Dublin could be very serious contenders for Liam McCarthy, for the double in fact. While one club doesn't make a county team, is it too much to hope that Cuala's continued success might prompt players and administrators to refocus?

Best hope is that Cuala's success will radically raise standard. Only team to beat them in championship this year were Ballyboden, and next to Piarsiagh Kilmacud gave them toughest game in knockout, so there is hope.

Galway, Kilkenny, Cork traditionally, and even Tipp despite its totally weird structure! are competitive almost all of the time because they have great SHCs. If Dublin can raise standard on back of Cuala that will bear fruit.

Next step is under 21 AI

Powerhouse

Patww79 wrote: »

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You are digging too furiously. I didn’t say I never heard it before.

Powerhouse

zetecescort wrote: »

just did a bit of searching there, looks like I'm mistaken. rules only mention lift and strike, no mention of whether you can balance the ball on the hurley.

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That is the case. Truth be told I can recall this being thrown at different players whose success at frees didn’t suit people over the last 30 years but the rules have never instructed on the matter.

lim4ev

Na piarsaigh have nobody else to blame bar their line pulling Dempsey out of the half forward line was criminal in my view leaving the cuala hb line to clean up and they'd prob still have won only for m casey going off. Fair play to both sides for thrilling contests congrats to cuala I can only imagine how Shane Dowling must be feeling considering the near no pressure free in missed in injury time last week all Ireland's are not easily won .

feargale

Powerhouse wrote: »

You are digging too furiously. I didn’t say I never heard it before.

Guys what on earth is this petty bickering for? I can never understand why so much of it goes on in GAA threads. It's only a bloody game FFS.

Powerhouse

feargale wrote: »

Guys what on earth is this petty bickering for? I can never understand why so much of it goes on in GAA threads. It's only a bloody game FFS.

I couldn’t agree more with you general sentiment. I hate the people turn all defensive and macho on the internet but that’s that way of the world.

But what’s it for, in this case? I just took issue with a stupid needless cliched comment that Cuala had “shat the bed” which in the circumstances of a really competitive game I thought was a low disrespectful choice of words. It is a killer to play a draw, extra-time and then another hugely competive replay and have someone on-line who probably wouldn’t survive thirty seconds in that environment dismiss your efforts as “shat the bed”. That’s just contemptuous of the whole thing.

I realise sport attracts the “game on”, “only one winner”, “they bottled it”, type of analysis as it’s not the most intellectual of pastimes but I think as commentary it’s boring and unfortunate.

OldMrBrennan83

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danganabu

feargale wrote: »

Guys what on earth is this petty bickering for? I can never understand why so much of it goes on in GAA threads. It's only a bloody game FFS.

You will find that a large proportion of them has one poster in particualr in common, start a row in a cemetary that lad, but more Power to him

OldMrBrennan83

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citykat

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There was a time that would have earned the ref a spell in the boot.

OldMrBrennan83

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