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

This business of shushing people to 'respect the kicker' cannot be let creep into hurling at any cost.

Tier 3,4 and 5 Hurling finals on tomorrow

1pm Monaghan V Lancashire

(Lory Meagher)

3pm Donegal V Wicklow

(Nickey Rackard)

5pm Derry V Meath

(Christy Ring)

Expected attendance only 5,000 for those 6 teams in Croke Park.

You know the thousands of supporters booing? Come on...

The kids point was in relation to the Munster League down in Cork.

Never said it was a world-wide thing. It's not a limerick thing either. Munster rugby is not a Limerick thing. But it is a Limerick thing to think it is. There's a couple of men on the La Rochelle coaching ticket that could tell you that. I wonder if Ben Healy was a Limerick man would he be let go? Definitely not! Anyway that's not for this thread.

Booing the free taker a Limerick thing? Wow lads, clutching at straws now. Everyone is at it. Have a listen to the Clare fans when Gillane or Byrnes is over a free the next day...

I've never seen so many butthurt Tipp fans as I've seen the last few days. It's glorious seeing them be all riled about about everything Limerick related the last few days. I didn't realize that all the beatings and trophies won by Limerick had annoyed them so much. That's what happens when one of the teams outside of the big 3 starts to dominate.😅 I hope we beat Clare but by god is it fun to see some folks squirm at Limerick and Clare making their own arrangements and dominating Munster

Never said it was Limerick thing. Said they've become the worst at it, in my experience. Perhaps, that's simply down to numbers but I've never heard so much of a crowd boo a free taker or ref. So, yeah, you read that wrong. Try to answer the what was written, not the one in your head. Otherwise, you're stuck in Plato's cave.

What a waste of a paragraph.

A nonsense statement. How can poorly supported teams be as bad as another county? Just on noise level alone that simply does not work. That said, the booing down on Lee side of the ref and free taker, while significant, was nowhere near as bad as in Thurles during the Limerick game. I only comment on it because it's simply got to a really bad level. Limerick have a huge support and it is a 16th man and they can roar the team on. No question. But I think they can do it without the booing. Nowhere have I said it's just Limerick that to it. I don't think it's just down to numbers either. Limerick have a chip on their shoulder and seem to think any criticism is related to their success or an attempt to take their success away. The problem of booing has been there before Limerick's success but it wasn't something I attached to Limerick until the last few years.

We all know there's a phenomenon of bandwagoners. A cohort of supporters who fall away after success stops. It's in every sport. It happens in every county and club. You only need to look at Offaly and the numbers at their senior games compared to their winning underage teams. A huge difference.

Breezy doesn't deny any of these issues. He can actually discuss it.

I don't know which team is the worst for booing an opposition freetaker these days but the first time I ever heard a set of fans boo/jeer the freetaker from the very first free (and it not due the a contentious decision) were Limerick fans in 2014.

You can clearly hear it here for the first Kilkenny free of the game https://youtu.be/fijgjzvh7QY?t=414. Not sure how long it had being going on at that stage since Kilkenny played Limerick fairly infrequently those days

Here's the first free to Limerick in that game https://youtu.be/b3l2cfygdi0?t=1862, I don't hear much booing or jeering there. Could you throw up a few example timestamps for us?

It's going on since the 90s at least - that's when I first started going - it was usually a very small cohort of fans doing it after a contentious decision in a bitter rivalry. Booing. But, at that time, not so much booing, but between Clare, Tipp, Limerick, and Cork scandalous chanting from the terraces aimed at particular players rather than booing got very bad. Maybe, I'm wrong but I don't think that is as bad as it was - maybe all those interviews with players on how it affected them helped. Now, booing doesn't even take a bitter rivalry, it's just grown and grown. And there's been no serious campaign to tackle it. Maybe it's something that can't be regulated but there must be some attempt at least. A few ex-players going out on their own bat in interviews or tweets is not enough. Targeting specific moments in the game - like free taking - with a no booing advertising campaign - might go some way.

Limerick, Wexford, and Offaly in my time going to games are the crowds you'd be jealous of in terms of attendance and noise generated. That's why I've noticed it. Huge levels of support with a growing number of people engaging in it. It's just the noise levels of booing and the frequency of it I've never heard before. But I just don't understand how booing is now this huge part of the occasion. I think it's just a habit now. It doesn't really matter who does it, every support has an element doing it, just matters something is done about it. You'll never get it out of the game but the GAA can definitely reduce the levels of it with an awareness campaign of some sort.