All Ireland Senior Hurling Championship 2024 (Munster And Leinster Championships,Liam McCarthy Cup)

Looking forward to the action this weekend. Unfortunately i'll be out of the country so radio will have to do.

The game in Ennis hard to call but i'll give the nod to Clare.

Hard to see anything but a comfortable Cork win. Davys days are numbered. He'll soon be taking his self promotion, waffle and excuses elsewhere (please god never to Dublin).

Wexford v Dublin important game in Leinster for the winner will have made a big step in getting into the top 3. Wexford justified favourites and at home but Dublin will fancy it, also. Dubs to win.

The other two Leinster games you have to wonder what is the point.

Galway 1/500 to beat Carlow and spread is 22 points.

Kilkenny 1/100 to beat Antrim and spread is 17 points.

Ennis game hard to call alright. If Clare win, it could be open-season on Limerick, as the others will be circling for a kill. If Limerick win, as I kind of expect, then Clare are in a bit of bother straight away, with 2 tricky away games to navigate.

Two years ago Cork surprised then league champions Waterford in Walsh park. Hard to see a reverse-surprise being engineered this year, unless Davy springs a massive smoke-and-mirrors job out of the blue.

Winning margins only question in the Galway/KK games. Think Wexford have better momentum than Dublin and should be trusted at home. It's not axiomatic that Leinster will be a Galway/KK final; had Wexford somehow not contrived to lose to Dublin last year, than they, rather than KK, would probably have contested the final

I agree. Imo Clare and Limerick are a step or 2 above the other teams in Munster.

No.

According to any media I have seen anyway.

Last year Limerick needed a win (or draw we found out later) against Cork on the last day. Only won by a point in the end so I would say that was way more exciting.

Walsh Park has been widened by five metres. 145 metres long and 84 metres wide.

Are there actually any fortresses in Munster ?

Yes you are more likely to win more home than away but I'm not aware of any team having some amazing home record.

Tipp have pretty decent home record against limerick and clare. Poor record away to limerick.

Big words from Pat Ryan: “From our point of view, if we want to be successful this year, we’ll need to be scoring three or four goals. If you want to be doing anything really in championship, I think you need to be scoring three or four goals to be winning your games.” 

Tipp have only won 2 games at home out of 8 since the round Robin started.

That includes losing to Waterford, our only win in 12 attempts outside Walsh Park.

Their record against Kielys Limerick is 5 losses, 1 draw & 1 win.

Was wondering where this talk of Tipp doing well against Kielys Limerick came from. I think Tipp beat Limerick in 2019 round robin but Limerick were already through to Munster final and rested players and exacted revenge by beating Tipp well in Munster final soon after.

The running narrative between the two in recent times seems to be Tipp leading at half time and Limerick upping the gears and overturning the ht deficit in jig time and coasting to victory. Haven't gone over the results but seem to remember this occuring on a lot of occassions. I'd be surprised if Limerick haven't won 90% of games with Tipp in Kielys time.

We were already through in the top 3 on pd I believe in 2019 against tipp.

But we were not qualified for the Munster final.

As far as we were concerned we had to beat tipp to make that final assuming Cork beat a Clare team going poorly. Think we only rested Hannon and Lynch.

That was our 2nd loss of the 4 rr games. People forget how poor we were in 2019 rr because of the Munster final, where in reality the Munster final hid a lot of our issues that championship.

I'm finding it very hard to form an idea of what I think will happen.

I actually think these next two weekends could define Clares season. My gut says they will lose both games and Davy might take the villains role and end Lohans tenure up in Ennis. While losing the first 2 games against Limerick and away to Cork isn't a stretch, logic says them losing to Waterford just won't happen but I just have this feeling in my gut.

I think there'll be a bolter from either Cork or Tipp. But I don't know which one yet. Tipp have the ability but not the consistency. Cork is the good with the awful and in my view are still to reliant on Horgan, Harney and Lehane. These guys influence for Cork grew through the rounds last year when I had hoped it might go the other way for Corks benefit.

Saying that, I think Cork could be in fora land this weekend. It's just so hard to make form an opinion on whatll happen.

Waterford have the best schedule to build a foundation. Home game, break, home game, break but they near a clear sensible gameplay and a fit squad.

If I was to make a prediction I'd say Limerick plus 1 of Cork and Tipp then the remaining teams fighting it out for 3rd.

I don't know why I just have this feeling Clare are going to struggle, against all evidence I know. I can see Tipp v Clare maybe being a winner takes all in the last round.

I think Limerick have been very shrewd in our prep. Limited game minutes to suit a team on the road for a long time now. But I don't think our depth is what others make out. I am also concerned about Hannon and Lynch and how they are moving. Still I think the other 4 teams are close enough to do damage to eachother that we'll get enough points to make another munster final.

I think Leinster will be much the same. Wexford v Dublin this weekend just might decide 3rd. But i dont see an improvement or room for improvement in Kilkenny or Galway to win the All Ireland this year.

Munster: Clare, Cork & Limerick

Leinster : Galway, Kilkenny, Wexford