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

The reffing in that Waterford game was awful. You have to hit the deck to get a free and there was at least 2 blatant trips missed. Not even a yellow for Bonar Maher and it was a straight red..he was reckless at the very least and made significant head contact.

I think Cork are sitting at home thinking rightly that they have a fair chance still. Waterford will get no more points. Cork could beat limerick and Tipp. Depends if Limerick prefer Tipp to remain in the Championship or Cork. Clare v Limerick in Thurles in the Munster final? Cork coming in 3rd . Tipp were good today but still porous at the back..

If the ref cannot do his job then he should expect to be verbally challenged on his decision making. He was an absolute disgrace this evening.

The players deserve better. The backroom staff deserve better. There's too much goes into intercounty to have one man, through sheer incompetence, be able to influence the outcome of games so much.

There are jobs on the line here. If Tipperary lost tonight (which would have had a Munster exit virtually guaranteed) Liam Cahill would have not been certain to still be in the job this time next year. He's entitled to ask the referee at half time why he has chosen to stand directly in between the keeper and the taker. And ask why he booked a Waterford player for a 3rd man challenge in the build up to the 2nd goal but then allowed the goal to stand.

In fairness if a ref didn't know to be standing away from the line of the goal in a junior F match you'd expect him to have it taken again and you'd probably lodge a complaint after and not expect to see him again for the rest of the year. At senior intercounty it's shocking, and it was only one of a pile of cock-ups in this match alone. I hate people criticizing refs (you can check the thread on that topic) and I don't give a toss about the teams playing today (I mean...I don't want tipp to win a coin toss but I'm not a Waterford fan), but that was a shambles of a performance. If a player was that incompetent they'd have been in the stands after ten minutes.

It's reckless, frontal challenge, the kind of challenges that need to be outlawed as they've become far too common. It's a definite yellow for sure but as the ball was gone it's borderline red.

For me it is just about not a red, but very close to it, its a poor challenge.

Accidental shouldn't matter. Like rugby the onus is or should be on the player charging in to avoid the head on head clash.

Ya, that sounds about right

It's better to have points on the board than not and it's an advantage to play at home in every sport in the world.

I know it's not the popular opinion but I don't think he had a good game at all.

People praised him for his old school hurling mentality of "letting if flow" but letting it flow often ends up as letting players get away with some very dirty play.

Dowling shouldn't be allowed commentate Limerick games though as his usually good reading of the game goes out the window.

there was plenty of stuff going around afterwards online which highlighted some of the stuff he missed , if that's his normal self i would hate to see the man in a depressed mood 😂 ,

in reality i feel that in these types of games rivalry games it should be let flow and your going to have incidents off the ball it happens in every game and that game was no different , as i said above i am probably in the old fashioned category in this all the guy had to do was be partial and highlight some of the limerick stuff too but he didnt , the vast majority of pundits in both codes do it anyway if you didn't like the man before and you were a clare supporter you would hate him for that and rightly so

and john keenan shouldn't have got the punishment he got either

It's a Boards tradition. As soon as the weekend is over conversation turns to nonsense talk about the championship structure.

i actually held my breath as i waited for the page to load , i taught you were going to bring up dowling again 😂 thank christ for that , i couldnt do with another lingering debate about it……🙈

So no hurling on the telly this weekend, no hurling on the telly next weekend, bizarre stuff again from RTE.