The Tipperary GAA (Club and intercounty) Discussion thread 2015

Examiner Report on Minor Football Match.

Tipperary’s late scoring blitz leaves Clare boys crestfallen
Thursday, May 14, 2015 By Jackie Cahill

Tipperary 0-16 Clare 2-9: Brendan Martin shattered Clare’s dreams of a first Electric Ireland Munster Minor football final appearance in 21 years at Semple Stadium last night.

Visitors Clare were two points clear before Tipp hit three without reply in the 59th, 60th and 61st minutes in Thurles, to snatch victory from the jaws of defeat.

Tommy Nolan kickstarted the revival, Jack Kennedy equalised and man-of-the-match Martin had the final say with a spectacular winner.

Captain Keelan Sexton was one of many Clare players in tears at full-time and Tipp boss Charlie McGeever admitted that his charges were below par.

In front of 812 spectators, Tipp were rocked by goals in either half, scored by Cormac Murray and Sexton.

Both were avoidable concessions, with Murray’s from a turnover, and despite hitting 16 scores to Clare’s eleven, Tipp still needed that late surge to squeeze into a provincial decider with Kerry on July 5. That will be Tipp’s fourth final in this grade in five seasons and from McGeever’s viewpoint, there is plenty to work on.

He reflected: “The goals rocked us but we showed character to come from behind in the last five minutes.

“While there was less than three points in it, we still had a chance but we have so much work to do ahead of the Munster final.

“We didn’t play well this evening and Clare gave it absolutely everything.”

Tipp were stunned by Murray’s excellent solo effort midway through the first half and after Martin equalised, wind-assisted Clare hit three points without reply to gain control.

But Tipp hit back with three of their own before half-time and at the interval, the sides were level at 0-6 to 1-3.
Less than two minutes after the restart, Clare were on the front foot when impressive sub Conor Lynch set up senior panellist Sexton for an excellent goal at the Town End. And when Lynch popped over a point, Clare were 2-4 to 0-7 clear, the first of three times in the second half when they would lead by as many points. A pair of excellent Sean Malone scores in the 40th and 41st minutes had Clare 2-7 to 0-10 clear and still dreaming of that first Munster final since way back in 1994.

Brian McGrath hit back with a point for Tipp before Martin was denied by Killian Roche’s brilliant save, before the Kilsheelan-Kilcash man Martin’s fisted point cut the gap to one, Sexton replied in a tit-for-tat period before Kennedy and Sexton traded frees.

That left Tipp trailing by two heading into the final minute of normal time – but they found late answers to not only seal a Munster final place, but also a route to the All-Ireland series.

Scorers for Tipperary:

B Martin & J Kennedy (3f) 0-5 each, S Power, S Quirke, E Moloney, T Nolan, B McGrath & R Peters 0-1 each.

Scorers for Clare:

K Sexton 1-3 (0-1f), C Murray 1-1, S Malone 0-2, D Bohannon, C Brennan & C Lynch 0-1 each.

TIPPERARY:

C Manton; T Lowry, M Irwin, S Power; M Kehoe, D Owens, J Skehan; T Nolan, B Mcgrath; E Moloney, J Kennedy, R Peters; B Martin, S Quirke, J Delahunty.

Subs:

J Bergin for Delahunty (h.t.), L Fahy for Skehan (37), J Moloney for E Moloney (46), T Fitzgerald for Kehoe (53).

CLARE:

K Roche; C O’Halloran, K Killeen, C Pyne; L Devitt, P Lillis, C Hehir; D Bohannon, C Downes; A Sweeney, K Sexton, N McCarthy; C Murray, C Brennan, S Malone.

Subs:

N Murray for Pyne (h.t.), C Lynch for Sweeney (h.t.), J Lehane for Hehir (50), J Morrissey for Murray (58).

Referee:

K Murphy (Cork)

Paddico wrote: »

Very hard fought win last night. The lads will learn a lot from that.

Can anyone tell me who Charlie McGeever is.
A tipp man, a nordie import or from some other county?

From Donegal AFAIK

Deleted User wrote: »

Your getting in a lather over a fairly minor thing to be honest. I've heard it often referred to as the Clonmel nationalist in the past. Besides many things are unofficially referred to by another term,

Anyways can we not get sidetracked and get back to discussing Tipperary gaa? Let the man call the paper whatever the hell he wishes

Are you in a lather? I'm not in a lather. Look at my first post re the paper

"Clonmel nationalist"?

Said in jest. However, poster copies/pastes nonsense from the oracle that is Wikipedia. Same poster who thinks the hurlers have no chance this year because a squad player has retired despite being joint favourites;). Same poster who calls on people to go to games he/she doesn't bother going to themselves. Same poster who I have to say provides some amusement on topics like Louis van gaal not being animated enough and the political posts where poster gets destroyed repeatedly.....

Can call the nationalist whatever ye like. I buy it, rarely read any of it. I don't care what anyone calls it!

digzy wrote: »

No I'm not. It's just another example of the nonsense-a Wikipedia copy/paste job which lends nothing to the "arguement". C'mon .. I didn't derail any thread. As I've said before I was being lighthearted- hence the smiley!

As per curran how could it have been handled better? He was part of the squad, given game time and the manager cut him along with a few others. Eos felt he wasn't up to it after giving him a fair crack at the whip.curran knew he wasn't getting any younger and retired. It'd be bizarre to me if he retired just as the league was over.Seems simple enough to me.

From what I've heard, Curran went to O Shea to tell him he wanted to retire, O Shea asked him to stick at it for a bit longer which he did. After the Waterford game he went to him again and that was the end of it, there was going to be a cull anyways but when the media copped Curran wasn't training on the Thursday they reported he had been dropped along with the rest.

Heard that he is going to be helping out on the line since also, how true any of that is I don't know. Seems the only fault the management made was not announcing his retirement earlier in the week.

A couple of lads playing that were dropped off the panel,fair play to them for turning up.hope Barry is ok.

evolving tipperary wrote: »

Curran joins backroom team

Paul Curran has been invited and has accepted the invitation to rejoin the set up as full backs coach.

Given the nature of his departure I think this move will be appreciated by all the squad.

Given that Tipp already have a recently enough retired corner back on the line in the person of Declan Fanning the move to bring back Curran can be seen as a damage limitation exercise.

However, it should work very well, as Paul Curran has so much talent and is so well respected by the squad it will help greatly in restoring harmony in the camp as no player of the stature of Curran should have been dropped in the manner that he was.

It's a good move by the County Board and I hope that they learn the necessary lesson from the whole episode.

By the way I have said it before and I will say it again this thread should not be hiding out in "Regions" then "Midwest" but rather be located in "GAA" along with all our other rivals in both codes. I have no doubt that the thread would generate a lot more interest if placed there. Anybody looking from afar would have a job finding Mullinahone or any of the two Carrick On Suir clubs or for that matter Ballyporeen in the "Midwest".

Xenophile wrote: »

Paul Curran has been invited and has accepted the invitation to rejoin the set up as full backs coach.

Given the nature of his departure I think this move will be appreciated by all the squad.

Given that Tipp already have a recently enough retired corner back on the line in the person of Declan Fanning the move to bring back Curran can be seen as a damage limitation exercise.

However, it should work very well, as Paul Curran has so much talent and is so well respected by the squad it will help greatly in restoring harmony in the camp as no player of the stature of Curran should have been dropped in the manner that he was.

It's a good move by the County Board and I hope that they learn the necessary lesson from the whole episode.

By the way I have said it before and I will say it again this thread should not be hiding out in "Regions" then "Midwest" but rather be located in "GAA" along with all our other rivals in both codes. I have no doubt that the thread would generate a lot more interest if placed there. Anybody looking from afar would have a job finding Mullinahone or any of the two Carrick On Suir clubs or for that matter Ballyporeen in the "Midwest".

Ye this thread is pretty quiet compared to other GAA threads on boards but I guess Premierview gets most the the Tipp GAA followers online.

Spirit of 67 wrote: »

Is the Killenaule v McDonaghs game off ? Cahir , Commercials could be a good game and Ardfinnan could put it up to Aherlow .
Moyle Rovers playing Commercials in the South Under 16 Final tonight which should be a cracker , shame both their Senior sides are out tonight , sure supporters would like to see both games the Clubs are involved in !

McDonaghs couldn't field a team.

Xenophile wrote: »

By the way I have said it before and I will say it again this thread should not be hiding out in "Regions" then "Midwest" but rather be located in "GAA" along with all our other rivals in both codes. I have no doubt that the thread would generate a lot more interest if placed there. Anybody looking from afar would have a job finding Mullinahone or any of the two Carrick On Suir clubs or for that matter Ballyporeen in the "Midwest".

The one thing I'd say about having the thread in the GAA forum is the fact that the thread came quickly become a bit derailed by people trolling. Like for the example the Eoin Kelly retires thread. (http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2057337015)

I rarely post here but it's very enjoyable reading the knowledgeable posts and not having to trawl through pages of people arguing etc..

Speaking of the legend Eoin Kelly:

https://crokeparkmuseum.tickets.ie/Listing/EventInformation/23227/bord-gais-energy-legends-tour-with-eoin-kelly-croke-park-8-August-2015

Kieran Bergin hurled corner forward for Killenaule tonight and scored 4 from play and looked very sharp. Bubbles did some sublime things but his man Ciaran Haugh did a lot of hurling at centre-back. Bonner didn't feature at all which is a worry with only 4 weeks to the Munster Semi. Killenaule 1-23 Lorrha 2-16.