The Tipperary GAA Discussion Thread

That was just an awful performance, no legs, no energy, no intensity. Can't seem to cope with week on week games. Played lots of long balls and played right into Galways strength, really was clueless stuff.

Identical to Waterford performance in terms of complete lack of intensity. Is it the week turnover? Surely not, given that last week was played at a slower pace than a training match between the first XV and the rest of the panel.

I think something changed after the Cork game, in that we started to worry too much with matchups and what the other team was doing, and less about what we were doing. Which was crazy, given we were by far the better team against Cork. Just chalk it down to a lapse in concentration for some of the goals. Yes we were conceeding goal chances but we were getting plenty of them too. And goals were our identity. Since that game, we scored 1 goal in the 3 games against serious opposition (not even worth counting the Offaly game), and that was todays one which was quite fortunate.

We showed so much respect to Waterford, keeping the sweeper and letting them come out uncontested with the puckouts. Same again today, Galway's puckout was completely uncontested but when it came to ours, Galway often removed the option to go short. At least make the other team think about it, christ.

Long ball after long ball down on top of their congested 45. No ball winner in there until Gearoid came on but we decided to keep at it anyway. When Cork congested the middle against us, we worked it wide to Kennedy who had the freedom of PUC to drive up and down the wing. Here, we played right into Galways hands, as we did Waterford.

Seamie starting worried me a lot, because it was obvious to anybody with eyes that he wasn't capable of getting involved in the game enough. I wrote a post about it during the week. And he was awful. He touched the ball maybe once in the first half and that was to try and run in a misplaced puckout from 45 years for a goal, despite him being one of the slowest lads on the pitch at this point. That needs to be his last game.

Barrett was left to suffer for some reason after having probably his worst ever game for us. Think Cahill really needs to go away over the next few months and look at exactly what the hell happened from 3 great Munster performances to Joe Mc level diarrhea against Waterford and Galway.

is Colm Bonnar down there ? you could nearly send liam cahill down their with him he'd have great craic down there with Bonnar, babas and your man pennywise with the balloons 🤣

Tactically, again hitting long ball that none of our inside forwards are able to win is nuts, yesterday our backs were cleaned out in the air, I don't think anyone saw that coming.

Our forwards were cleaned out in the air and on the ground, any ball not won cleanly Galway mopped up at their ease. Same as the Waterford game, we allowed their backs endless time on the ball to pick out their deliveries.

I don't know what way we lined out, but we were outnumbered up front, were caught two on two at the back and we didn't seem to have a numerical advantage anywhere.

McCormack started on Whelan. Then Barrett and finally Breen. Bit disingenuous saying they didn't try to halt his gallop.

Once they decided to move McCormack onto C. Mannion in the second half Tipp dragged themselves back into the game. Hindsight is a great thing but I'm sure Cahill will feel if they did it earlier the result could of been different.

Not defending Cahill but sometimes a team grossly under performs other than replacing 10 of them it's a losing battle.

Maher was unbelievable in the pocket. Something that may not be mentioned but his reading of the game was phenomenal. Cut out a lot of channels for Galway especially in the first half.

We have some more depth than what was on display v Waterford, but they are all injured long term. Ger Browne, Paddy Cadell, Craig Morgan (who started and went off injured again against Offaly), Ciaran Connolly, Barry Heffernan - All 5 of those would have been on the panel (Morgan was).

Look, ultimately it was year 1 and there were some real positive signs in our opening 3 games. It just feels bad because the start promised so much and the finish was so poor.

Lohan's Clare didn't show anything until year 3. Kiely's Limerick played 2 and lost 2 in 2017.

While I was disappointed with some of his decisions over the last few weeks, and there are real questions over him having teams burnt out too quickly in this round robin structure - still believe if Cahill can't get us competitive over the next 2-3 years then nobody can.

I genuinely feel sorry for you, Derrick.

you forgot tots and pots.

Against Waterford we hit endless long straight ball from our 21-45 down to the full forward line, and when we didn't win it we immediately moved back the field and clogged the midfield area, leaving Waterford and yesterday Galway to saunter out and play long ball to their forwards the way they wanted it.

The question is how our management expect it to work better yesterday than against Waterford? I am genuinely puzzled. In the early round robin games we played a lot of good ball through the lines, got a lot of good scores from it. Seamie Callanan has never been any good on long 50:50 balls, if Tipp played like this for the last 12 years he'd have never been on the team, it's just not his game.

Tipp didn't look right yesterday, they looked sluggish, some of their passing wasn't sharp. That is all on the management team, this is their 4th? round robin, they should no how to have the team at the right pitch for games. Our half backline was cleaned out in the air, which I never imagined would happen. I actually thought before the game that Galway who normally hit a lot of long ball would suit us. In the earlier rounds we looked supreme in the air, at times in games our half backline looked impregnable, did teams adapt? play more long ball over our half backs?

Barrett playing yesterday when he clearly wasn't right looked like amateur hour. The Co Board really need to step in here and make sure that we have the best in terms of S&C and medical back up. We've seen in the past the difference this makes. The Polish S&C guy that left us to go to Galway? there was a noticeable fall off when he went, then when Sheedy came back the guy with the funny Irish name, I won't try and spell he came in and we looked really fit and sharp.

Are the Setanta crowd involved with the seniors or is that only underage??

Cahill has only been in charge of 2 round robins. Last year with Waterford and this year with Tipp.

It does seem to be an issue with peaking right. He will need to learn from it.

Don't think Galway looked a whole lot better than tipp in the S&C department,

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Refreshing a player's career in a new position or promoting a player to a more important position (or asking a player to do a job in a position) is pretty standard practice across the decades in most counties.

we're you able to get a ticket alright dan, I was very worried about you with the awful shortage of tickets!!