The Tipperary GAA Discussion Thread

I'm thinking he knows who they are at this stage. But he'll need cover and cover that has had games. At this stage we have two games. Could lose the last two games and not go further.

O'Mara at full back two games running, could be the end of the Breen project.

Good win, but plenty to be done. We struggled badly against a sweeper and persisted with long ball. Red card totally changed tactics from Waterford and Tipp mopped up in the finish.

league maybe but it found a championship pace at times tonight , as you say waterford were going for it , and they imploded i would worry about them the ill discipline in my opinion is coming from the sideline

the finishing for the 4 goals excellent , however 15 v 15 when tipp were ran at they looked vulnerable especially in the first half ,, waterford had two or 3 goal chances and didnt take them

the commentators on tipp fm maintain Callanan's injury was a dead leg

God I thought 15 on 15 Tipp were the better team, actually when Waterford were forced to go long in their puck outs Tipp well had the measure of them. Tipp started the second half extremely lethargically, very reactive rather than pro-active. Had absolutely no clue how to manage a sweeper.

Breen will never be a full back, really don't know what's going on there.

Bonnar had a good effect overall, I thought in the first half you could really see him and Jake forming a partnership. You'd imagine he'd be a good foil for Forde as well. Morris takes the high risk option when trying to win ball, he's always flicking it in a way that if it works out he's away into space. I wonder is that why he looks poorer the further from goal he goes, into more crowded spaces. I couldn't understand under Sheedy why he kept sending Jake chasing out into midfield, it really isn't his game.

Mark Kehoe still looks like he has a lot to do to stake down a place. Would he be better out the field???

Happy enough with that. Thought we dominated the first half without having to break a sweat really, had a good 3-4 decent goal chances other than the one we got.

Second half, Waterford came out all guns blazing and we seemed to have made a big tactical switch to go long inside at every opportunity. It was so different to what we were doing in the first half that it simply has to have been to try it out, as mentioned above. Which is great, do that stuff in the league.

It wasn't working too well though, and Waterford were able to get a lot of scores as we dropped ball onto their full back line to come away with and build attacks. Think they upped their intensity a lot here, probably took us by surprised how hard they were going at it in the 2nd half.

Always felt that if we wanted to win the game we would, we settled down, got the 2nd goal and I was extremely confident that we would win with 15v15. Lot of scraps in the 2nd half, Davy obviously told them to get more physical which led to a lot of off the ball stuff - and after the red card we took over and won pulling up. Easily could have scored 8-9 goals.

The league means very little, as proved last year for Cork/Waterford/Limerick, but I'm quite happy about how it is going for us. We look massively improved from the shambles of last year. No reason why we can't come out of Munster, just as good a chance as anyone bar Limerick.

I disagree that tipp could not deal with the sweeper system or the red card charged the game

Start of second half tipp pushed their players into very defensive positions and played long ball up to a two man forward line - cahill was doing this on purpose to see how it go

Start of second half the waterford players started hitting very hard and dirty and tipp players decided to reply in kind and won pulling up.

Tipp looking way better than last year

Very sad what he done especially with Limerick and tipp is sensational

But he was a great character and not short of the controversy stakes

Himself and Colm Collins were always good friends but that friendship was put to the sword back in 2018

It was a roasting hot day in the Clare centre of excellence Clare had been battered by Kerry in Munster and we're looking for a confidence booster before a game against Offaly in the qualifiers

We played tipp in what was supposed to be 3 20 minute period with the last 20 resevered for squad players

In the 3rd period Clare emerged with the extended 15 while John sent out Michael quinlivan and his best 15 available

They hammered us in the process , a huge row developed between Collins and kerins but kerins wasn't backing down even though it was a challenge game it was still important to the man

Collins and kerins remind friends after dispte the break down in law and order that night , for example we have played Offaly 3 times this year in challenge games

John would have been heavily ear marked as Colm Collins replacement

Probably his season over, Seamie has always needed lots of action to be in top shape. Pity as I think it was probably his last year, he's been unlucky. Injuries really starting to bite.

I would have rested Tynan. Would have liked to see Pauric Campion and Cian O'Dwyer start.

i know nothing about Heffernan at wing back , mark has all the makers of a midfielder and a 3rd midfielder at that hes a good grafter and dirty ball winner more so then a score getter

i have huge time for the mcgrath family from loughmore, so delighted to see him back , an RTE podcast done the rounds this week of how to silence the cusack pk crowd like galway did last week , no one was paying any attention to what he done to us in 2019

great lad with a fantastic attitude

I feel that Cork in Cork is like Tipp in Thurles, everyone is used to playing there, the home advantage is less pronounced. Absolutely no-one wants to go to Waterford or Ennis!!!!!

Cork in Cork is winnable, unfortunately for Cork everyone fancies that they could beat them!! If you look in the Waterford thread the Deise brethern feel Cork in their second game will be crucial for qualifying.

Ultimately win your two home games and you will get out of Munster.

The clare game is huge. Win and we could beat one of Cork or waterford to have a good chance to getting out of munster, lose and we have to beat Cork and waterford. very difficult

No 17 Pauric Campion replaces no 7 John Campion.

the lads ruining the asylum at the moment are much better then daveys father or joe cooney a dodgy local politician they were notorious for this caper i am actually surprised with the current board and how they are handling the minors game