The Tipperary GAA Discussion Thread

Looking at the teams on paper, you'd expect KK to be 3 to 1. On paper, it's Limerick's to lose.

There's very little activity on here today and you've put that thing about the odds on three threads. Hard to avoid it really. Doesn't take an incurable 'surfer' to find these several references considering how quiet the place is. You should just fill your boots and then see if the odds look as attractive at 6pm.

he told us a few weeks ago that he knew more about horse racing or women then the rest of us , this despite my Ursula Jacob story at the country festival in hollycross , i dont know what to believe now , i taught we were all honest here !!!!

John Keenan with another superb performance yesterday, once again proving that he is by a country mile the best referee in the country.

2009 could have been talked about as it was 4 in arow and simply mentioned how it was tough game. Read tyrells book and see shite talked in it. Never came across bitterness like it.

Kilkenny looking at limerick team struggling with the 4 Munster teams and then getting cleaned out by the limerick team , sweet . Kilkenny have a habit of big beatings on all ireland day by Munster teams

One thing you cannot take away from kilkenny is that they are the hurling county in Ireland , nobody comes close

Even when they have a panel of very average players they actually are still very competitive

They had no business being in the 2019 2022 and 2023 all irelands, yet they were.

They have great belief in themselves and when they get on track with the new normal, bascially managing their underage players as professionals, they will be back to No. 1 again.

And I am tipp man

Only a Tipperary man would be that supportive of Kilkenny so you hardly needed to add that bit.

However, what you wrote is pure propaganda. In reality Kilkenny have lost in the championship in the last five years to Cork, Waterford, Wexford, Galway, Tipperary, Limerick, all bar Galway in knockout games. This year or last year they could not win the only two round-robin games (Galway and Wexford) that were likely to stretch them. Yet, they could rely on Galway to hand them the title in the end.

It is an extraordinary quirk of circumstances, luck, weak-willed opponents, and the structure of the competition (where they get to play Westmeath, Antrim etc ) that has enabled their superficial performance to hide the reality of the county's decline from the 'keep the faith' crew like yourself.

Next year they'll be 10 years without an All Ireland Minor title, will have one under-20 in 15 years, and will be heading towards a decade without a senior title. The penny has dropped. The game is up. The mighty have fallen and are on their knees with worse to come.

Only a Tipperary man in typical thrall to Kilkenny would argue, after Limerick have won five All Ireland titles in six years, that Kilkenny are the hurling county. Continue the love-in by all means but don't expect everyone to not look behind the facade of a few token All Ireland final appearances. They've lost the last four they were in and were destroyed in three of them.

The current Kilkenny team is the only hurling team in history to win three consecutive provincial championships (Leinster/Munster) and not win an All Ireland. This year they stretched that record to four. I confidently expect that they will not bottle the five in a row in this occasion.

Easy up with the generalizations, i for one was praying Galway would win Leinster as i had no fear of kilkenny, as i said on here and i still believe we would beat them by 4+. For some reason tipp teams dont get up for Galway as much as Galway do for us. We always raise it for kilkenny and more often then not win as stats show.

Relieved to read this. Am sick and tired of that crowd being treated as royalty by people when they've done nothing in the best part of ten years to deserve it. A very ordinary county right now.

Weren't impressive in the North against Borris to me anyway. Very committed bunch though. They might come right again... but they have their fair share of injuries atm too...