The Tipperary GAA Discussion Thread

KClon11

Poor Brian McGrath can’t seem to catch a break with injuries

evolvingtipperary101

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120652846#Comment_120652846

Do you play Craig Morgan against Offaly?

newhouse87

that limerick posters postings were absolutely scummy, bita craic when he first appeared but postings just turned nasty. Presume he is banned from this thread.

realdanbreen

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120653377#Comment_120653377

With potentially 3 games to go to get to an all Ireland final I'd be playing the strongest 15/20 available. Not a time to be giving players game time IMO.

KClon11

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120653377#Comment_120653377

He’s a very good player but don’t think it’s the right time to be putting him in after not playing for so long. Suppose he has to get back playing at some stage though

KClon11

Derrick Lynch on replying to tweets “fully agreeing” that Cork deserved to go through and Tipp didn’t 😂 In what world does a team that lost 2/4 games “deserve” to go through ahead of a team that lost 1/4 games

Mantis Toboggan

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120655217#Comment_120655217

In fairness both us and Cork only won one game. Cork have been unlucky though, beat Waterford handy, 1 draw and lost the other 2 by a point. Table doesn't lie though as they say. Structure isn't right though Cork now no game now for 9 months, not even summer and they're gone.

KClon11

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120655234#Comment_120655234

Ya structures not right at all, horrible for any team to go out at this time of year. Still wouldn’t say they deserved to go through ahead of us though

evolvingtipperary101

With the players were missing at the moment it leaves us without serious threat and pace up front - threat in particular. Because the threat that Forde, Morris, and Ger Browne bring, makes a team honest - will keep them deep to a certain extent. They can't afford to bomb up the field too much. Ger Browne is not mentioned a lot as missing but he is a loss. Browne scored a lot from play last year in a team well bet all over the field. Big loss to us as a threat from deep. Just a dimension we don't have at the moment.

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Having players like Morgan and Barrett, when available, gives us real pace at the back too. That really helps to transition to attack in a moment. Barry Heff does give us pace coming out from the back too.

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120652846#Comment_120652846

Really bad blow to the back of the head he took.

evolvingtipperary101

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120655217#Comment_120655217

He just loves to hate Tipp. Who doesn't! Only eight counties bordering us.

Anyway, tis about Offaly next. They'll know us inside out. Johnny Kelly, Martin Maher, and Brendan Maher and half of Borrisoleigh on the Offaly backroom team.

Asdfgh2020

Is Ger Browne the guy from last year with the full leg ‘tat’ that played in most games……did he feature at all this season yet….? Also thought was a nice image yesterday seeing beavens mixing/mingling and conversing with the waterford players as they left the pitch…..I’m not in the ‘ABT’ (anyone but Tipp) camp by the way……more of an ABC…and that’s the C place with the high pitched singing irritating accent, not the stone walls and ceilí, trad music and dance strong hold…🤣

Bobby_Bolivia

I 100 percent play Craig Morgan against Offaly if he is fit by the way. Get minutes into him. I'd rather take the risk against Offaly and play him, than play it safe, because having the likes of Morgan as an option is what is going to have us still hanging around in July. Him coming off the bench at 50 minutes (or even earlier) against a Galway or Kilkenny could be huge for us.

Get Niall O'Meara 30 minutes too. These guys are going to be huge for us if we can get minutes into them ahead of an AI QF or AI Semi, should we be lucky enough to make it to either.

Bobby_Bolivia

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120652278#Comment_120652278

That was the first time we played with just the one week break in between games also. 2 weeks between the Clare and Cork game, and again between the Cork and Limerick game. Cahill might have said that exhaustion wasn't a problem for Limerick with the week break but he obviously knows they are well battle hardened at this point. We had a one week break after the game we put more into than any other game. I can't remember the last time we worked so hard in a game. They were mentally and physically flat.

We are a mostly young team who have huge catch up to do on the best conditioned team in the history of the game. Cahill has made up some ground on last years appalling fitness levels but theres only so much that can be done in 6 months, when that Limerick side have had years to get to those levels of fitness.

I imagine with the experience of last year, Clare will be a lot better off mentally and physically, win or lose against Limerick, come the AI QF or SF.

Bobby_Bolivia

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120655484#Comment_120655484

Ger Browne is out for the season. He does have the leg tattoos alright.

With our lengthy injury list anybody is a loss. Morgan, Heffernan, Browne, Cadell, Ciaran Connolly and Niall O'Meara would all have gotten loads of minutes. Looks like Morgan and O'Meara will be in contention for minutes against Offaly which is great news. We need as many back as we can get and get minutes into them.

When you look at those names and throw Forde, Morris, Barrett, Gearoid O'Connor and Brian McGrath onto the injury list - it can't be coped with. These 3 weeks will be a godsend.

Mantis Toboggan

Unless Morgan is flying in training I wouldn’t be starting him, possibly last 15 minutes if we're winning comfortably. Niall O'Meara I'd possibly start, brings a bit of much needed pace to the half forward line. Callanan badly needs more minutes, still not as sharp as he can be.

Should we beat Offaly we'll have another week turnaround to Galway or Kilkenny. Something we struggled with the last day. Would it be wise to keep a couple of players in reserve? Risky but if we cannot beat Offaly missing two or three well then we're going nowhere anyhow.

farmerval

Did yesterday's incredibly flat performance look anything like Waterford last year?

We were within a whisper of going out if the game in Limerick was a draw, yet we did the same things for the 70 minutes. In the second half you could see Ronan trying to push up to negate their sweeper for puck outs but we were very disorganised.

The number of times Waterford worked the ball up the field and got shots off without ever being pressured by Tipp was shocking. Calem Lyons looked like he'd bribed the whole Tipp team in the first half. strangely we played similar tactics against Waterford in the second half of the league game, loads of long ball down the field.

Management are very lucky that Cork couldn't get an equaliser. If we were out of the championship this morning things would have a very different feel.

The back door will suit us well, another high octane game isn't what we need right now, the opportunity, hopefully to beat Offaly especially the three week break and the chance to gain some momentum will be welcome.

evolvingtipperary101

Word is Gearoid and Brian gone for the season.

farmerval

Crikey, so disappointing for both. Gearoid on a breakout year and Brian getting a bit of traction again.

Both big losses. It's been a disappointment that Brian couldn't nail down a place in the team. He always seemed to be made from the right stuff, tremendous heart.

Rosita

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120655217#Comment_120655217

I wonder what part of Tipperary 4 points, Cork 3 points is he struggling with?

realdanbreen

We need to forget about the likes of that muppet Lynch, forget about who's out for the season and get ready for Offaly. Also to approach this as anything other than a high octane knock out championship match would be disastrous. We now know that on our day we can beat anyone so let's go and f*****g do it!

Mantis Toboggan

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120656162#Comment_120656162

I'd be surprised if that's true.

Bobby_Bolivia

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120655217#Comment_120655217

Cork were very, very lucky to get the draw with us, we outplayed them for the majority of the game. Their crowd was colossal for them in the final 10 minutes.

And we got the same lack of fairness from the officials against Limerick as Cork will claim they had v Limerick, we should have won that too.

Honestly I find it pretty hilarious, Cork are building and no shame in them coming 4th after a few close efforts - with plenty even bemoaning the Championship structure because they are gone. Yet us, in the exact same building scenario, are "lucky" to still be here, our injuries and young panel completely ignored by every "pundit" but Joe Canning on TSG, and seemingly it would be no loss to the Championship if we were gone. Fcuk them.

It's the same kind of rubbish that people trotted out in 19 when Limerick should have "won the Championship" despite losing 3 games in it.

KClon11

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120656934#Comment_120656934

Gearoid O’Connor with a suspected broken ankle after supposedly hitting a Tv camera on Sunday

Bobby_Bolivia

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120657119#Comment_120657119

I'll wait for proper conformation. I saw that Premier View tweet but I wouldn't read too much into it until Tipp say something.

At the time it was hard to tell if it was the slight drop off from the grass pitch into the astro surface that caused him to roll it, or if he made heavy contact with the camera.

I know myself that with ankle injuries, you can be full sure it's a break but it's just a bad sprain. He could still be back in 6 weeks with a very small fracture and a sprain, so even if theres actually a break it's not necessarily "season ending".

He would be a big loss. He has been great this year.

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120657033#Comment_120657033

Ya but in fairness ye got absolutely walloped in the Munster final. Even the hurler of the year gong was a bit of a joke that year with Noel McGrath been nominated despite he been dragged ashore in that final

Bobby_Bolivia

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120660079#Comment_120660079

And we were walloped by Cork in Munster when winning the AI in 10. Didn't matter a fcuk.

In 2019, we beat Cork, Clare, Waterford, Limerick, Laois, Wexford and Kilkenny. The only good county we didn't actually beat was Galway. We could barely beat anybody else we had beaten so many teams.

Strangely enough, hurler of the year is decided on the basis of more than one game. Think the clue is in the "year" bit, rather than Hurler of the Munster Final. But you let us know.

Rosita

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120660079#Comment_120660079

Austin Gleeson was substituted in the 2016 Munster Final and actually won Hurler of the Year that year.

evolvingtipperary101

Rotten from Fagan

https://twitter.com/CraicOfTheAsh/status/1663648845018832896?s=20

Mantis Toboggan

Muppet, at least he'll have 9 months to think about it.

Asdfgh2020

Do any of you know if Rhys Shelly has any welsh heritage….?