The Tipperary GAA Discussion Thread

Analyses the game.

Goes into training on Tuesday. Works on shape non stop until the next game.

Dare I ask what the thinking behind that team is?

Why are you dropping Morris?

That's not how you've listed it, do you mean Bryan O'Mara?

You have listed 'O'Meara' at 13. And no Quirke. And you have Willie O'Connors on the wing. And Cadell centre back.

You’re only looking at the glass half empty, this was a massive improvement from other efforts V limerick. We hurled them off the field for thirty minutes. We’re as good and maybe better than any of the other teams left bar limerick and maybe someone else might do a number on them in the semi with younger legs . As for putting in youngsters at this stage , just ask mike Ryan about it . Cathal Barrett must Be scratching his head as to what gets a lad sent off these days !

No , we can’t be happy with the result but I’d be happy with some progress made versus limerick, other years we didn’t have any periods of dominance. I don’t have as much faith in the subs as others have here

Interesting why John Mc didn’t get thrown in , if it was a one point game with plenty of ball going in , I think he’d have been first on . Maybe the guys that got bought on are the players he’s going to try next day .

Nobody has mentioned the short puck outs . They contributed as much to the defeat as anything , if hegarty had taken his goal chance farm a short puck out, we’d have conceded 2-5 from interceptions. Short puck outs should head to the sideline, not down the middle where the limerick want you to go

TJ Ryan on Tipp's first half - 'tactically, as near perfect as you can get'. But no innovation say the lads on this page. A couple of people butt hurt because Tipp got beaten so they go on a rampage. Mother a god.

Yes, a complete collapse in the second half - thought they had it won and played like it - and got blown away. Tipp's been here before and their own have dismissed them before. I wouldn't be one of those though.

But don't say there was no innovation or something different yesterday. Mother a god - embarrassing.

Second half was mismanaged - subs too late - keeper will learn - but it's up to the backs to help him and everyone underperformed in the backs. After all Tipp's innovation and creativity - they handed two soft goals on a plate to Limerick. A man runs in from his own wing back position...

Too much space everywhere - lost shape completely. Dan Mc wasted on a marking job. Dan should be doing his own thing and not tied to shaping his game to someone else. Too good of a reader of the play for that - too important a winner of possession for that. Tipp have found a system of getting goals and just need to hold shape better, introduce subs sooner, and stop structuring our defensive tactics completely based on other teams (like dan mc or brendan doing marking jobs that should be left to markers like Barrett or Heff) But they should not throw away that new system up front - keep perfecting it - there's more goals in it. And they'll keep coming up with new things. I can't remember the last time Limerick conceded three (and we should have had more). They had spiked the pressure on Limerick and they were cracking with it - two possible reds from indiscipline went unpunished - they won't keep getting away with it. That indiscipline is a response to pressure.

Posters think Tipp will lie down now. They were hungry for that game. To be honest, I didn't they would be as hungry. Often Tipp trashed teams in a munster final and went on to get knocked out in a semi. Tipp's form under Sheedy is always aimed at peaking for the all-ireland series. If people think that Tipp won't be twice as hungry to rectify what happened last Sunday now, they're out of their minds. They'll be like rapid dogs the next time they face Limerick. They're being dragged through the mud by their own, completely dismissed by people claiming to be supporters of the team. No two ways about it, people/posters/analysts are trying to drive the coffin nails into this Tipp team and its management. I believe they have a response in them.

Posters talking about dropping Bubbles? He has scored as much from play in two games as any top forward and more than most of them. Complete over reaction and a perfect example of the type of reaction to the game.

I thought P Maher defended as well as anybody could considering the pressure the fullback line was under , Bubbles had seven shots at the posts in the first half and scored 1-2

I’m not sure if it was the 2018 season, but M Ryan took the knife to the Tipp team for our first championship game V limerick after a disastrous league final game . Most of the debutants that day never played that year again and we finished up playing a great game V Clare with all the usual suspects in their usual positions. Jake hit the post at the end !