All Ireland Senior Hurling Championship 2023 ( Munster And Leinster Championships,Liam McCarthy Cup)

Think Cork could win it this year. Said the last two years, Cork v Limerick is going to become a huge battle in coming years. Limerick are the number one team, but Cork are the coming team. Limerick big and physical, Cork quick and skillful

Not as clued up as some on Cork hurling, but some of their players I seen in underage games were phenomenal the last couple of years.

Hurling generally goes in cycles between the big 3 and Cork have been down a long time. Surely a cycle of Cork dominance is on the horizon in coming years?

Which can be only be good for the game. As good as Limerick and Kilkenny were, they played some turgid, physical and dogmatic hurling at times. Be good to see Corks more skillful and technical game win out. Cork is where the most natural hurlers come from imo

Losing the league semi finals was the best thing for both Cork and Tipp. Every man woman and child from Tipperary needs to be at the game in Thurles against Limerick. No more talk of transition, building a team etc, it's time to get stuck in !

Munster prediction -

Munster Champions - Limerick

Losing Munster finalists - Tipperary

3rd Place - Clare

Leinster Prediction -

Leinster Champions - Kilkenny

Losing Leinster finalists - Galway

3rd Place - Wexford

This ‘blowing smoke up cork’s wholes’ stuff has to be a wind up…….very little to back it up…..plenty of average hurlers on the team and this ‘cork produces the most skilful hurlers’ talk is even more laughable/bollocks……….🤣🤣

Limerick are truly a great team, they are well placed to win again this year. They will do the five in a row at least and maybe even 6.

I think limerick clare and cork get out of munster, Cats Galway and Wexford out of leinster.

Limerick and cats in the final. Kilkenny will put up a good showing like the great hurling County they are but Limerick are untouchable at moment.

That's how I would predict it in terms of teams coming out of Munster and Leinster although I think it will be a Cork Limerick final with Limerick to get over the line again.

The Joe McDonagh Cup is also part of the All-Ireland championship.

Waterford have to finish above two of their rivals. It is not beyond Waterford.

The current league format would actually suit the championship. Only teams in the All-Ireland 12 should be allowed compete in knockout provincial championships. Provincial winners and runners-up could be seeded 1 and 2. Everyone else seeded on league ranking. 2 groups of 6. Group winners into All-Ireland semi-finals. 2nd and 3rd into quarter-finals. 6th placed teams into relegation final.

I don't think provincial councils will be in a rush to dispense with the provincial round robins though. They are getting good crowds. The only way they would possibly allow the All-Ireland group stage instead is if a so-called big team was unexpectedly relegated. Unlikely to happen anytime soon however.

What's your point? The OP has covered that and explained exactly where it comes in. Feel free to offer pearls of wisdom on the upcoming Joe McDonagh championship if you would like to.

It's quite evidently true. Since KKs dominance, which was built on physicality and being dogmatic, most teams have gone down that road, to an even greater extent.

Watching Cork, this clearly isn't the case. Don't see how anyone could argue that, they're the only team playing a technical game, built on skill, speed and vision, that didn't go down the road the rest did.

Since their re-emergence as a genuinely competitive team, they've struggled to get the better of the physical teams, which is obvious, but we will get to the point where they will learn and grow in their own game from playing these teams, adapt where they need to, and finally get the better of them.

Going forward, we've Cork playing one style, the rest a variation of a completely contrasting style. When Cork get it right and put it all together, we could see a few hammerings for the others.

Skill, speed and technical skill, when executed properly, will always trump negative styles. In patches Cork have blitzed the rest in phases, even Limerick, it's a case of consistency now, with a bit of added quality which is coming through for them.

My post wasn't a wind up at all, can't understand how a neutral wouldn't want Cork to succeed, when what the others produce is clearly less aesthetically pleasing.

And you have to commend Cork for sticking to their guns, and sticking to their own game, when they could of gone down the road the others did. It's commendable they don't want to just win, but to do it playing the right way

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Tis a far cry from the blood and bandages days.

I'd go Limerick, Clare, Tipp. Clare based on trusting that they're capable of rediscovering their form from last years munster championship....they were outstanding in that and topped the group.

If Kerry win the McDonagh, the 6th team in Leinster will still be relegated. The provincial championships will have 11 teams. If Munster has 6, Leinster has 5. If Leinster has 6, Munster has 5. The 6th placed team in the 6 team championship will always be relegated following the congress vote a few weeks back.

If Kerry win the McDonagh, they will be automatically promoted to Munster. Munster will then have 6 teams for a year. Leinster will have 5 and no relegation. The 6th placed Munster team is then relegated. Leinster returns to 6 teams.

On current form it will be Laois, Offaly and Kildare battling for the final spots. The McDonagh has been a very exciting competition in recent years.

The McDonagh final will be a curtain raiser to the U20 final at the end of May. The McDonagh finalists will have 3 weeks to prepare for an All-Ireland preliminary quarter-final this year.

Lads it's Miller. Ask anyone on the various soccer threads about his wild history and tradition based predictions.

He thinks Benfica or Milan are better than Man City because of some sort hereditary winningness running through the clubs.

I assume that's for football only.

Munster hurling were same as those Connacht prices if I remember correctly. Is there an increase expected ?

I never actually knew different provinces had different prices.

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Lump it on Tipp @16-1 for the all Ireland. The cheek of them putting us at those odds, we'll **** ram it down their throats this year, hon the Premier!

They have us as complete outsiders along with clare. By Jesus we'll make them earn it this year,f**k em all c'mon Tipp!

And we don't need no luke warm supporters this year, we want them at the match roaring on the team, hon tipp!

I'd fancy Tipp.

Cusack Park is a hard place to get a result as us Limerick supporters well know but coming off a solid league campaign I think Cahill will have Tipp prepped well.