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

Actually (obviously it's the wrong thing to say but) I'm not especially concerned about Carlow. They could go back to the Joe McDonagh and would not annihilate all others. More talking about the bottom Munster team which as years go by will vary and will be every county eventually.

But anyway it's not beyond the GAA to add an extra team if necessary. The Five Nations added Italy without relegation anyway and France years before that too when they demonstrated they had improved. And nobody stopped trying because there wasn't "jeopardy". But we don't necessarily have to be bound by what a rugby competition has done (I just gave it as an example of a competition which does not relegate teams. A bit of imagination would get around it.

People are often on here looking for the bottom Munster team to be relegated more or less to take Munster down a peg but it'd lead to a farcical Joe McD Cup the following season. Someone will always have to be bottom in Munster. Doesn't mean they are not still among the better teams overall. Tipperary drew with Waterford who beat Cork who beat Limerick. Let's not be silly.

That's Cork in an AI semi final anyway. They'll hammer the Joe McD team and Dublin. They'd beat Kilkenny in the semi final too but that'll probably be avoided unless Wexford beat Clare which could happen as Clare are unreliable.

Serious question, are you trolling with that statement, or are you that ignorant of the the hurling strongholds in Ireland.

Canning saying similar to Skehill about it being hard to figure out what Galway's game plan is.

Someone should tell Anthony Daly that Paddy Deegan played midfield today

5 huge game sin hurling tonight and as usual all this thread can do is cry and whinge about championship structures.

I don’t really know what your point is. You can easily say the prelim QF is a qualification round for the AI and the JMD teams have to beat the 3rd placed Leinster/Munster team to get in. Just like CL qualification.

FC Apoel have made the CL in the past and they’re much worse than Chelsea. The point being, the CL doesn’t comprise of the best 32 teams in Europe but it’s the pinnacle of football.

The AI series doesn’t have Waterford and has the Joe McDonagh teams. There’s nothing unjust about that. Different qualification routes are normal in football. The prelims don’t necessarily have the best hurling counties in them. There’s nothing wrong with that. Just like the CL, just like lots of competitions in the world.

I doubt it. Too busy teaching the lads to throw the ball to each other. Amazing that wasn't picked up on TSG coverage.

I don't think Henry Shefflin is doing that great a job as manager for Galway, but are the players even there? Galway last won an u21 all Ireland in 2011 after all.

Cork are serious underachievers in both senior codes since 1990, but Galway have only won three senior all Irelands in both codes in the last almost forty years since 1988.

For the second biggest county in Ireland they should be doing better a lot than that. Galway aren't even in double digits when it comes to their all Ireland tally in both men and women's senior codes. They still have more men's senior football all Irelands than everyone else outside of Dublin and Kerry though!

I still don't think Davy Fitz is the right man for the Waterford job. At the end of the day they only won the one championship game and it's another group stage exit in Munster yet again for them.

I'm glad the Munster final is in Thurles. I think it's the best location for it. I know some like breezy hates the place but for me Tom Semples stadium holds a lot of history down the years it's pretty central to the five Munster hurling counties. I"ve been to a few Munster hurling finals down the years and all bar one was in Thurles. Handy enough to get to from Dublin, also.

Hard to believe that Tipp were the only team with nothing to play for today. I was at the Dublin v Tipp league game in Parnell Park. And it was men against boys. Tipp were toying with Dublin. Now in only a short while it has all changed. If you told me that Dublin would be getting to a Leinster Final, and Tipp would be making up the numbers in Munster, I would have said you are off your head.

All Liam Cahill teams peak in the league

Another epic Munster final in store. These Limerick v Clare matches will be remembered for a long time to come.

Semple “Stadium “ is a dump, great pitch but the facilities and ground are a throwback to something from the 70’s , shouldnt be considered for a Munster Final until it’s substantially improved.