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

Mantis Toboggan · 23-04-2023 9:14pm

Poor teigh De Burca is cursed

breezy1985 · 23-04-2023 9:15pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120512965#Comment_120512965

Ya very sad to hear he is out for the season.

castletownman · 23-04-2023 9:33pm

Shane Dowling in the studio so we won't be getting any impartial view of the nastier incidents today so

Motivator · 23-04-2023 9:49pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120512935#Comment_120512935

Oh give it over for Christ’s sake. He didn’t punch him, he pushed him with an open palm and with an extended arm. At worst it could be deemed to be a “bitch slap” into the chest. It was embarrassing and that’s all it was. No need for a ban or anything, he’ll get one for interfering with a player but it was embarrassing more than outrageous. Absolutely stupid thing to do, what he was trying to achieve I’ve no idea.

As for you, untangle your knickers, the fake outrage is a bit over the top.

lawrencesummers · 23-04-2023 10:01pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120513090#Comment_120513090

Yea lets all be ok with mentors hitting players. That reasonable alright.

sneaking out of the benches to land a cheap shot and then hide again in the benches.

With people of his ilk in the backroom team its no wonder waterford never win F all.

Ragwort and Stones · 23-04-2023 10:06pm

Sunday Game a joke when counties playing analysysed by County person.

Shane Dowling uses the oul fat mentor to totally deflect from Hegarty, Flanagan etc. Ursula not strong enough to call it out. Not just with Dowling but analysis is all too parochial.

GoldFour4 · 23-04-2023 10:06pm

Shane Dowling can get in the bin as an analyst. RTÉ host should be pressing him for a comment on the two shoulders to the head.

No excusing the Waterford official but it is a distant third in terms of severity of the three incidents they just showed on the Sunday game. (Flanagan + Hegarty shoulders and then the Waterford official showing Hegarty)

castletownman · 23-04-2023 10:12pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120513161#Comment_120513161

His breakdown of Waterford's play was very good to be fair (the newer lads are more switched on with the modern tactics), but yeah his deflection of his county's antics was embarrassing. I did call it as soon as I saw he was on duty though.

I see sheep · 23-04-2023 10:13pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120513161#Comment_120513161

Part of Munster hurling i think said? Idiot.

TheRiverman · 23-04-2023 10:15pm

Shane Dowling a disgrace on the Sunday Game tonight analyising the Hegarty incident and let away with it.

Glenomra · 23-04-2023 10:16pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120513161#Comment_120513161

No comparison. A mentor running in and striking a player is a far more serious offence than any player strike.

MisterAnarchy · 23-04-2023 10:17pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120513196#Comment_120513196

He is a diabolical pundit, a yes man.

This new Sunday Game highlights programme is dire.

Dire pundits, Shane Dowling and Ursula Jacob tonight.

GoldFour4 · 23-04-2023 10:19pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120513201#Comment_120513201

He shoved him with one hand. It’s bad but it is in no way in the same world as a shoulder to the head at force.

Mantis Toboggan · 23-04-2023 10:22pm

Weird how Tony Kelly almost never plays well against Tipp.

washman3 · 23-04-2023 10:25pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120512948#Comment_120512948

Never remember him been hit by an official. Do you? Unless it happened in a club game in Wexford i haven't seen it.

A mentor hitting a participating player on the sideline is, to me, on par with the racist abuse directed at Lee Chin, which i have also condemned as disgusting in my posts in recent weeks. No place for either.

keeponhurling · 23-04-2023 10:25pm

for Balance, the pundits should either all be neutral , or have one each from the counties playing.

obviously Dowling is a proud limerick man , but that he’s way too close to the players to be impartial

Limerick were again lucky and on another day Flanagan and Nash could also have been sent off. I know O’Dnoghue, Hayes have recently gotten retrospective bans….but they still start the next day with 15. Going down to 13 or 12 today (after Hegarty’s red) would surely have changed the match.

naughtyboy · 23-04-2023 10:33pm

I am appalled by hegarty, first he cleans out the waterford player in a cowardly fashion and than does some dreadful play acting when lightly tapped by the waterford chap.

And than dowling comes out with awful shite and is let away it. He has no business on Sunday game as he is too biased. It's embarrassing.

realdanbreen · 23-04-2023 10:34pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120511435#Comment_120511435

The Jack Grealish of hurling!

naughtyboy · 23-04-2023 10:38pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120513287#Comment_120513287

He looks like a young calf being let onto grass for the first time, legs kicking and head rolling. Is he from farming stock himself, has it down to a tee

breezy1985 · 23-04-2023 10:41pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120513201#Comment_120513201

It's not because the mentor wasn't a Limerick one.

The wonderfish · 23-04-2023 10:46pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120513205#Comment_120513205

This. FFS can we just do away with the token female analyst, they add nothing to the analysis of the men’s game. Sunday Game used to be must watch when you had Farrell, Loughnane etc but now it’s just watch the game on catchup and skip the analysis completely

Ragwort and Stones · 23-04-2023 10:51pm

Paul Flynn and Enda McGinley two gents.

Ragwort and Stones · 23-04-2023 10:59pm

GAA analysis of hits to the head at force is so poor.

We have stronger players than ever before, all sports are so proactive on the dangers of hits to the head. But that vacuous space cadet Dowling says it's 'Munster hurling'. How that fella passed an interview to analyse on National TV.. Long way from Eamon Cregan.

naughtyboy · 23-04-2023 11:03pm

I really miss loughnane, yes he was biased but he was also biased against his own clare due to how he finished up

Best of them all

FintanMcluskey · 23-04-2023 11:16pm

No easy for Hegarty at 6"5. He should never have lined up the smaller man for the shoulder.

Motivator · 23-04-2023 11:29pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120513201#Comment_120513201

He actually remained behind the fence, so technically he didn’t go “running in” anywhere. The way people are crying about it you’d swear he went in to the edge of the square with a hammer and took Hegarty out.

Let’s call a spade a spade, what happened was wrong I don’t think anyone will deny it. But the crying about it from Limerick is embarrassing. They’re the best team in the country and this kind of stuff is what they should be laughing at. One thing I will say is Hegarty is an out and out thug. I’d like to see him absolutely nailed, but by a fellow player. Not a push from an OAP.

evolvingtipperary101 · 23-04-2023 11:32pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120513231#Comment_120513231

Brendan Maher 2019 + Cathal Barrett 2023 = No Kelly influence.

TheRiverman · 23-04-2023 11:48pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120513335#Comment_120513335

Shhhh, you'll have Ursula all upset again 😂😂.

Ragwort and Stones · 24-04-2023 12:08am

In fairness to Duignan he has a strong personality.

He called out Wexford for dirty head blows v Dublin 10-12 year ago. Fell out with Larry O'Gorman, Liam Dunne, Storey, his Wexford contemporaries. But he's hardy, didn't bother him.

Creggan called the 1997 All Ireland Tipp v Clare, as average but exciting, not classic hurling. Loughnane had a cut off him at the victory banquet. Loughnane would call it and often pulled up Kilkenny.

Cyril never really offended anyone. Donal O'Grady was good in the 80s and 90s. Tomas Mul stated the obvious.

Some of the younger retired are more interested in what they're wearing and how the look. Ursula's analysis is ok but she's a timid persona. Shefflin ok but showed ex team mate bias in 2019, Richie Hogan incident.

I always had a lot of time for Len Gaynor as a man of integrity.

Ragwort and Stones · 24-04-2023 12:11am

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120513416#Comment_120513416

That's missing the point. He needlessly took him out hard and LATE high. By your logic 6ft 5 men shouldn't shoulder 90% of opposition players.

Walter Walsh is 6ft 5 and I don't recall any similar instances. Kyle Hayes is 6ft 6 and doesn't end up in the situations Hegarty always does.

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

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