Hurling RIP

riddles · 04-06-2023 4:33pm #1

Just watching the u20 hurling final. It can used as a case study as to why hurling is dead. Cork took the field to engage in cynical hits and repeated fouling and were aided and abetted by a totally incompetent ref

anyone prepping a team watching that will say - lads it’s back to the gym and anyone under six foot need not apply.

it’s sad to see really used to be a great game. Skill was the loser.

evolvingtipperary101 · 04-06-2023 4:49pm

"anyone prepping a team watching that will say - lads it’s back to the gym and anyone under six foot need not apply.

it’s sad to see really used to be a great game. Skill was the loser."

Riddles, you're riddled with bullshit.

Larbre34 · 04-06-2023 4:57pm

Never heard such shyte.

The SHC threw up three or four instant classics over the previous two weekends, with magnificent skill on display.

Kilkenny's David Blanchfield is over 6'4 and a diminutive Wexford midfield enacted a plan to keep him very quiet.

This is no more than another thread to mask abuse of officials, as you have done by name.

tibruit · 04-06-2023 5:09pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120676983#Comment_120676983

Two fellas working to keep one fella quiet. Hmmm.....

munsterdevil · 04-06-2023 5:17pm

You're possibly the only one in the country who thinks hurling is dead.

Weirdest thread I’ve seen here in a while.

riddles · 04-06-2023 5:20pm

Nope pretty consistent feeling among genuine hurling fans. Very hard to watch - cynicism is engrained in the game to the point refs are immune to it.

quote from a Cork poster on the other thread “We need to be more cynical and physical at senior level like we were today.” Enough said.

I believe both teams went off at half time with a yellow each.

Quitelife · 04-06-2023 6:49pm

Tickets like gold dust for next weekends Munster hurling final - 11,000 terrace tickets sold out in 23 minutes during the week , there was 29,380 at the two underage hurling finals in thurles today !

hurlings got problems all right lol