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

Skehill is marmite. I dont think he's a good pundit and when he 'reveals' a tactic it's usually so obvious as to not be a surprise or a revelation. He's usually well behind the best pundits or thinkers. He's got that bogman head and accent that it's hard to take him seriously. It's an awful podcast . Murphy is another mammy's boy that you could safely drop into a women's hostel in Argentina and be certain he would go straight to bed and zip up his sleeping bag tight. Probably the worst podcast out there.

All Skehill said about Davy is of course true. Iv no problem with that

Well if what they say doesn't suit Peggy then they are probably saying the right thing.

I think Paul Murphy is an excellent reader of the game. I think his problem lies in that he seems terrified to say anything controversial

They didn't lose a single match in Leinster that year...has anyone else done that since in either province with a round robin?

They should have beaten Kilkenny in 2021 in Leinster, few key moments turned against them in normal time. And had they won that, they'd have had Dublin and Cork in there way to an All Ireland final. What might have been!

The best job Fitzgerald did was the one at Wexford. The Clare one probably the one that deserves most scrutiny. But when all is said and done, they did win an All Ireland and there first league in 50 years.

My point originally was he's the man that everyone loves to hate, and while I'm sure he deserves plenty of criticism there are many who would absolutely refuse to give him any credit at all.

My short memory!! Thanks for the correction

For neutrals out there who is under more pressure this Sunday. Cork to back up earlier performance against Limerick or Limerick to get one step closer to anotherAll Ireland.

The pressure is definitely with the favourites. Only exception will be the few older Cork players who might not get another chance.

Galway in 2022 or 2023 didn't lose in the round robin.

think the good performance from cork would have to be matched with a pretty poor performance from limerick. cant see anything but a limerick 5 in-a-row. The gap to the rest is still massive

Clare by 2, after a ding dong battle.

Glad Davy is gone. Everywhere he goes becomes a circus and the county itself and county boards coffers suffer most.

Also I don't know if it's just a Wexford thing but there is a slight level of delusion about their standing from their fans imo.

Under Davy Wexford were atrocious in 2020 and 2021. Playing 2 top oppositions each championship each year, and losing them all. Losses of 13 points, 7 points, 8 points and 3 points.

And yet a poster above has basically talked them into the All Ireland final that year!!

In 2019 they won 2 out of their 6 games, losing to 14 men in the semi final and it's as if their name was on the cup only for a bit of bad luck.

There's a collective feeling in Wexford that they're a better side than Dublin. Yet recent history shows they're not.

It's always coulds, shoulds and ifs with Wexford.

Davy got the Davy bump with them. Big name manager, got them fit early and they tried to run teams into the ground. It eventually won them a Leinster, fair play, but just like Davy, it's that 1 win that keeps him afloat for another year before the wheels eventually come off. And that's all 2019 was really. 1 win of note.

This year the same. Caught Cork, fair play. But it was at home to 14, and for a while 13 Cork men. Out played by Tipp in my view. Suspect goals at important times kept them in it but the dam eventually burst. Clare threatened to pull away but let them back into it and they still lost. To a correctly called 65 and its as if they were robbed! And Limerick eventually showed what Waterford really had. Yet its looked upon as a successful year by some because of "how close" they came to advancing.

He's a spoofer who's been around long enough to get lucky the odd year in 4 that keeps him afloat until his next lucky break.

Waterford have regressed under him, much worse than Cahills few years, we're long past Cahills last 2 games in 2022 now.

I'm not a fan of Davy Fitzgerald generally, but the above post by Letsseehere is a classic example of how people refuse to give him any credit because they just don't like him.

Literally a hole picked in any performance or victory of recent times, it's just bizzare.

Fair point, YDD.

Anyway, on today's game I feel like Kilkenny look in better shape than the last two years when I didn't fancy them...so today will probably be the day they lose!!

Think Clare have tired in a lot of games this year, maybe something Lohan hasn't really adapted to in game. But I also think that the assessment of the performance against Limerick has been harsh. Kilkenny might suffer for not having a competitive game since the Wexford game, but showed their quality with a full team available in the Leinster Final.

Adam Hogan on Eoin Cody and Butler on Kelly the match ups to watch.

Terrible crowd but 3pm on a Saturday is no time for an AISF.

I’d say the atmosphere would be so much better if this game were on in Thurles/Limerick (not forgetting Cork, but PuC in Cork has arguably too big a capacity and would be similar to Croke Park). These important games are spoiled by being “lost” in a venue that simply too big for them …