Club Championships 2023/24

Is anyone seeing anything other than Ballygunner and O'Laughlin's making the hurling final?

I think Cushendall have a fighting chance to make it to the final, but Ballygunner's name is on it this year again.

Ballygunner to win it outright for me. They would be competitive at Inter county level their that good.

Clubs are obviously the pick of a local community playing against the pick of another local community. A county team should be the best from all the clubs. Limerick started the AI Final with 10 clubs represented, plus 5 more in the subs.

Some game here.

Absolute classic. Such a pity to finish it on penos here.

Marvellous entertainment. Two great teams.

Advantage BG in penos with goalkeeper.

Congrats to St Thomas. I didn't think they could beat them.

Watched a lot of sport today…..that game bet them all…….

Sometimes things don't go as to plan.

Ref was dreadful. Let everything go early doors and then gave Thomas's some very soft frees late on. I've never seen so many rucks in a game that I can remember. BG really have underachieved for all their talent. Their obsession with the short game is mind boggling at times. They pass the ball to a colleague in a worse position than they are. Brain dead stuff. I'm afraid they've paid the price again. Well done to Thomas's. Hope they win it now.

In fairness the GAA are damned either way, they brought in penalties to deal with fixture congestion from replays, but also there was always this suspicion that refs were engineering draws to force replays for extra pay days for the association. So when they bring in something that allows you to settle the result on the day then everyone's up in arms about that.

Id agree. Like others I thought the ref got very fussy towards the latter stages of the game and free taking became huge.

But most of the time he was technically correct for hands left in, or high hands and BG really didnt help themselves with some silly unnecessary fouls against a Thomas that really didnt have the same scoring power.

Some heart from them in the 2nd half of ET alright. Looked all over with BG taking 2 point lead and the wind.

Once again Ballygunner miss out at the final stages having walked through Munster. Through their Munster campaign great praise was heaped on the team and management. Nobody seemed to have a problem with their style of play or with management's tactics. In fact it was suggested that this team could take on intercounty teams! That the management team should be long offered the county job!

And then up pops a non Munster team and bang, Ballygunner are gone and suddenly all the flaws are rolled out.

Well done St. Thomas.

I don't think they have many flaws but they were not as good yesterday as they were in the Provincial campaign which they supposedly "walked". Any team that downs Na Piarsaigh in Limerick 2 years running ain't walking.

Not having the slog of a Province to conquer will always help the Galway champs. What Ballyhale have achieved is monumental.

Anyway, good luck St. Thomas in the final, I hope you win it now.

Cushendall are putting it up to Loughlin Gaels here, although their 8 point lead now down to only 3…..

In other words, Munster hurling my arse

I’m not sure this is really necessary.

Ulster teams have a decent enough record so it’s not like Ulster opposition is necessarily easier than the others (to the point that you need to adjust the draw)

Maybe they don’t win much at inter county level but they have strong clubs

OLG getting the rub off the green from the ref here.

Definitely

O'Loughlins should have had at least two goals.