The Tipperary GAA Discussion Thread

You'll see this more and more as the season goes on. Team's will announce the team when it suits them. And just give HQ a list of 26 on the Thursday. You don't have to give your confirmed team / subs with 4 changes to the officials until 40 minutes before throw in.

Nobody has gone to this extreme before at intercounty that team graphic looked like a bingo card😅 Loughnane killed the old fashioned AN Other while I think the only real squad number with Waterford was Maurice Shanahan wearing 21 as it had some significance for him given his personal issues.

You're last line there - I've seen teams named today that are all over the shop, but sure they named a 1-15 so everyone is happy. BS!

Anyway, love the team TBH. I think Cahill has named a team to take on Clare physically between the 2 45's. Tipperary by 5+.... Here we go!

That's a strong Tipp Team. Probably as strong as we can field, John McGrath is the worry, have him back to his best and it's a massive bonus. Funny Centre forward could suit him, his lack of pace won't be as exposed.

Last years league he played there against Limerick in the first round and was great. Also if he plays at 11 will be an interesting change to have a centre forward who's not running all over the place to discommode the centre back.

A good win in Ennis. Strong showings from Ryan and O Mara in the backs

very good performance in terms of work rate and defending , kept us scoreless for 17 minutes in the 2nd half when we had a strong wind , no complaints about the result but would be verry annoyed with the nature of the goals we conceded

some championship ratio for sean ryan also , 5 minutes of championship played two shots on goal 1-1 scored

ì will say one thing , the standard an especially the intensity and pace of the game was excellent for all the errors made , its a great starting point for tipperary , especially the young lads like heffernan , brian mcgrath gearoid o connor worked really hard in the impressive tipp definsive system which seemed to start on the oppisition 45 , notched over a lovely point from range too , i was bullish about ye today , i still am but as you say , cork had a better league maybe they will ask more questions

the first paragraph sums up modern day intercounty championship hurling , but the main stat if iwas backs coach in tipp tonight is , clare only scored 1 point in 17 minuts of hurling in the 2nd half with a strong wind at their backs , shot several wides due to heavy pressure in the middle 3rd on the shooter

It's not just tipp supporters. We have the same problem in Kilkenny.

We managed that game well in parts. Is it the total management package? F**k no. It's very much a work in progress. But Jesús, it's way better than last year.

Forde led the line brilliantly - took on a lot of attention. Put in a real composed shift. The peno pressure was big and in a weekend of missed penos - he delivered big time.

Clare were a bit too preoccupied with Forde. Focused a bit too much on him. It left a lot of space for Jake. Also, Clare played the man too much in the full back line. Instead of getting out in front of their men and getting to the ball - they were too busy trying to annoy and rough up - always behind the man as a result. Paid the price for it.

Clare got a purple patch - a few patches - especially before half time, but Tipp held the head and always tacked on a few points after Clare goals. Did Clare ever lead?

Before, if a team got a run of goals, Tipp would have wilted and died. But we reset the backs at half time and it worked a treat. Tipp went away from home, to Ennis, and delivered a win.

Tipp looked together as a bunch and worked hard to make Clare make mistakes. There's good spirit there.

Clare might feel they left a lot behind today. Wides and chances. But they were forced into hail mary shots from the sideline a lot. McCarthy had a great game but by god he hit some crazy wides and tried to do too much. He wasn't the only one.

As a few posters have pointed out, the bench did very well.

Seanie Ryan was one of the lads that was blamed for the Kerry defeat last year and left off the panel. Bonnar will be wondering what was he thinking today.

Counties must confirm a 26-player match-day panel by Friday morning to Croke Park, who then release it to the public that afternoon.

"We didn’t take any pleasure in having to name the squad in the way we did," said Cahill.

"We couldn’t train on Thursday due to circumstances outside of our control. As a management team we try to roll out a schedule a month in advance for players, because these guys are working full-time and in high-pressurised jobs.

"We were unable to name a team before Friday night because of little injuries and things we needed to come right. We did request the team be released around 6pm on Friday but that request wasn’t granted.

"I hadn’t an opportunity to speak to players. There were a number of players who were going to be disappointed if they saw the team named in the media before I could have that difficult conversation with them."

Cahill added: "It was very disappointing to see criticism of the county board and ourselves. This was outside of our control. Having said that, we still stuck to the 15 we released on Friday evening. The 15 we named took to the field. I can’t be sure that happened at every game around the country this weekend."

Still a bit to go at senior level.

By a huge distance, not only are there far more senior games now, but there was no U21 grade then either, colossus of a man. 19 years on the Senior team encompassing the counties greatest ever period.

If that’s a free we may all forget about hurling

Why you putting this up surely nobody's giving out about this?

I think it was a free because Ronan played the man without the ball. Shoulder looked perfect.

In the modern game there's very little straight contact like above, lot's of it is the player in possession twisting and turning and two or three opponents pulling the free hand etc. Also so many players taking on the man and actively trying to buy frees, e.g. clamping onto the arm in around them and throwing themselves down.

Agree about the contact and a free piece. Reff'ing is extremely hard, Mark Kehoe took a lot of steps leading to our last goal, was almost certainly being fouled at the same time.