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

It will haunt Galway forever more, that clip will be replayed for years to come.

Mr Bean hurling at its finest in the Galway defense.

I think you're overplaying it. It mattered in that it makes life much handier for the winners but unless they win the All Ireland it'll quickly be superceded by other events.

Yeah I think so. Teams that have already played each other in the provincial championships are kept apart if possible.

It'll be some shock if Dublin reached that stage!

I was under the impression Kilkenny had won this in the last five years?

Rosita, are you saying that a Leinster team might actually have a chance against a Munster team?! 😱😂

Yeah, why not? It's the predictability of the top two in Leinster and the associated advantage they have that's the issue with Leinster. Galway beat Cork last year. Kilkenny beat Clare. Why would you think it's odd that Dublin might have a chance?

Obviously Cork who won one game in Munster scored 40 points on Westmeath in recent years. That tells you all you need to know about the Leinster championship but the All Ireland series is another matter.

It's not really worth thinking too much about what he means.

A lot if it is just posturing in an attempt to seem not analytical, but actually, intellectual. A dead-end form of pretentiousness even if he were equipped for it.

It's all a relic of the 'Real Capital' siege mentality of the group from his playing era - the 'our world vs their world' wristbands, the '3-27', John Allen's painful newspaper jottings.

And of course... always with the 'Cauldronism'.

But Munster hurling, being the opposite of 'Reading Room' is... what then ? Tabloid, perhaps ? Ephemeral Sensationalism ?

Perhaps it is, in the words of the Bard of Avon...

''Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.''

• Macbeth, Act 5, Scene 5.

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Goodnight all, from The Reading Room.

Your 'associated advantage' is all in your mind.

It relies too much on your previously-stated assumption that there is no evidence that a 'battle-hardened' outfit has any kind of advantage.

'No evidence...' Whereas, in fact, there is a Reading Room full of received wisdom that goes along the lines that 'one championship match = ten training sessions'. It makes perfect common sense, but of course you know better.

While you stated that as a general rule, you then gave a terrible example. As I pointed out to you, Clare weren't 'battle-hardened', they were 'battle-fatigued'. Probably mentally, at least as much as physically.

In spite of that specific case, the problem with your faulty logic still remains as follows - correlation is not cause.

In other words, you would have to prove that any eg Kilkenny All-Ireland victory was in any way attributable to a benefit we have accrued from your Cauldronite tribal squabbles on the way.

And you certainly cannot prove that.

The GPA president was doing much for the weaker county players with his comments, my understanding is the GPA is for all players in both codes. He gets away with too many off the cuff comments and under his reign what’s has he done for the players on the ground, previous presidents were know and visual.