Tipperary GAA discussion thread

looder wrote: »

Great idea for a thread. The thread on the Tipp forum is primarily inter-county discussion.

Id agree there isn't much contributors to the club scene in Tipp and im as guilty of that myself but the only real way to generate discussion is by posting about it and i see no reason why club hurling/football cannot be discussed on the regular forum. Im sure there is knowledgeable people on the thread who can contribute opinions on it. That said perhaps in future years its better to have 1 solitary thread, but have it here in the gaa forum instead

premierstone wrote: »

I see no harm in having one hear aswell Gunner, not many from outside of Tipp even knew about the other thread and usually any outsider that posts there is just wumming.

It would be no harm to have one here where we can get the views and opinions of people from outside the county, especially as Tipp supporters in general have a tendancy to over react in both defeat and victory alike, knee-jerk reactions are a speciality in Tipp.

I don't think its that unique in Tipperary to be honest its just your more exposed to it and it must be said were caught in a vicious cycle.

Once a decade we win an All Ireland (in 2010 we couldn't have won it in better fashion and i don't think in living memory I've seen a Tipp team play as well) and then we somehow fall away in the following years and this has been the cycle since 1965. We've been caught cold underestimating teams, not being up for a physical battle taking all the wrong options...It isn't all in our imagination. We have not been delivering what a so called big hurling county is supposed to be capable of delivering on any sort of consistent basis. Whatever about winning consecutive All Ireland's, we seem to manage to even fall down the rankings in the years preceding winning of Liam McCarthy. No wonder people are fed up, its a case of 'here we go again'.

Never before has has much money being invested in our county teams and yet it would seem the same pattern is emerging just as it does time and time again. Just when we look like having a team who could at least be main contenders for years to come, we fall away. We seen it in the 90s and 00s and it looks as if the cycle is repeating. People are fed up and want this cycle to end.

I can take losing to Limerick and bloody hell for their part they played excellent but to see lads, some of whom are men of 6'3 and others with years of experience and they just been bulldozed out the way is extremely disheartening. Fair enough if we were winning balls and it was merely a case of Limerick just wanting it a little bit more but the fact is they wanted it a whole lot more.

I agree to a certain extent that fans can be cruel during the hard times and carried away during the good and some who id even question about their 'fanship' go overboard but i don't think we are unique in this regard tbh.

Most of the criticism you see is a vent of frustration as Tipp fans are seeing familiar patterns rear their ugly head and before we know it ground-hog day is amongst us again.

premierstone wrote: »

It was Billy Heffernan that was sent off, wasn't at the game myself as was too busy celebrating our win over Toom but anyone I was talking to that was at it, including Nenagh folk, said that Lar did nothing and it looked like an umpire trying to make a name for himself! Heffernan wouldnt be a dirty player either tbh.

Kildangan will go hard on the championship this year. They've been a coming team for years. Definitely capable of causing a shock along the way. That said the Mines will give them a good tussle the next day as they are a very robust unit. They have adapted to life at Senior level incredibly well

Scandalous if that was the case with Lar and tbh i remember his red v Clonoulty 2 years ago, he done very little that day either. Is Heffernan one of the clan i was referring to? If he is then i couldnt imagine much malice in him

premierstone wrote: »

More bad news on the injury front John O'Brien has torn he's calf muscle and will be out for 6 weeks, so from having only one forward capable of winning a high ball, we now have none!

We play the loosers of KK and Dublin away, so in all likelyhood a tricky away game in Parnell park, will be a good test of character for Tipp and I fully expect them to perform, it really is now or never.

The talk is that Bergin would have been tried in the forwards before his injury. Thats woeful news re Johno. At least Brendan Maher is back i believe he scored 1-10 for Borris the weekend. Huge plus