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

The right call would also have been to take the 65 from the correct position. Should have been 5 metres to the right and on the 65 line.

Just thought it was interesting that you didn't mention that. 🤣

Looks like the end for Cahill no Tipp manager could survive 2 hammerings in the same year like that

So a wrong makes a right. FFS some lads would argue black is white. He got the call right. If that took 1 second or 5 seconds doesnt matter. If he got it wrong (called it wide ) and Clare got knocked out of it next week then that would be fine ? The amount of scutter talk about the umpire making a correct call is laughable

Liam Cahill barely won a match in the Munster group stage as Waterford manager. Today was a sobering one for Tipperary hurling.

The Cork crowd even outnumbered the Tipp crowd in the stands as well. That shows the lack of faith the Tipperary public had in their team.

To be fair the Tipp performance or lack of today more than justified that lack of faith!

Tipperary and their management are pretty clueless. In a game demanding strength and speed you can't have the 2 McGraths and Jason Ford. And to give them their due they ve been great players but destroyed again today. The backs are pretty poor aswell. Ronan Maher cant move.Tipperary don't have the athletes to compete in today's game. That coupled with a terrible management team in Bevans and Cahill means Tipp are done. Could be a 20 point loss again next week although the pressure is off Tipperary now they might play a small bit better. Cork will be a force . What a player Connolly is ..Barratt aswell has finally delivered all season. And today the shackles seemed to be off the backs..They attacked the ball and were outstanding. Collins is the weak link ..terrible shot stopper. The 2 Downeys ...excellent.

Limerick won't lose to Waterford. Another Clare v Limerick Munster final . That ll be in Thurles and if Clare are ever going to win Munster it has to be this year. Limerick will still win the 5 in a row.

So much for the Round Robin! The quirk of the fixture scheduling means both Galway/Dublin and Kilkenny/Wexford next week are de facto Leinster SFs

Munster final is in Thurles if it's Clare v Limerick or Waterford v Clare or Limerick V Waterford. Thurles is first up of the 3 stadiums on the rota.

End of the Clare Waterford game is another good example that they need to change 65's.

They were designed at a time when it was rare to score one. Now every decent u14 club free taker is slotting them over. It's a ridiculously harsh penalty for a deflected wide ball and it decided a very important game today

They add nothing to the spectacle either. Make them indirect or make them playable from the ground only

Both are great ideas and I would say either would do the trick.

Another one worth trying is 65s to be taken from your own 65 but I prefer the ideas above.

Id even go as far as your own 45. But definitely giving what is a handy free for deflecting a ball out is way too harsh and was starkly illustrated there. Indirect is also a good idea.

At the end of the day, its gone all too easy to score from long-range in hurling. Technology and player conditioning the reason. Same as golf- hitting a 62 in a major was unheard of and now there were two in the same tournament. Holes over 500 yards that used to be par 5's are now par 4's.

Quick puck-out to lad on wing and straight over the bar gets tiresome quick.

Ya but that's Tipp and they are clearly pure shte 🤣

With a bit of nuance though… if progression to the AI series is the ultimate prize.

Dublin are out unless they lose narrowly and Wexford are beaten badly. More than a 10 point difference. Galway are out if they lose.

I think Tipp's problem was that they delayed blooding those underage all Ireland winners. If they started blooding them sooner they'd be a lot better off now.

Anyway all that is Tipp's problem and not Cork's. Pat Ryan and the players sure have (myself included) answered the doubters over the last two games.