Demise of the five!

SillyMcCarthy

Thanks be to Jesus & his blessed Mother that we won't have
to listen to this for a long time to come. I'm sure they'll win
plenty more & good luck to them but the bull siht that surrounded
the five & Henry Shefflin might have distracted Kilkenny but in
saying that I'm not taking anything away from Tipperary!
Deserved winners on the day.:)

ex_infantry man

SillyMcCarthy wrote: »

Thanks be to Jesus & his blessed Mother that we won't have
to listen to this for a long time to come. I'm sure they'll win
plenty more & good luck to them but the bull siht that surrounded
the five & Henry Shefflin might have distracted Kilkenny but in
saying that I'm not taking anything away from Tipperary!
Deserved winners on the day.:)

well said!!!!!

mike65

Now now this might look like a case of "bad winners" by proxy! :pac:

Oh would the Soggy Moggies who painted the North Quays get back with some buckets, sponges and detergent.

Mysterious&Shy

Delighted for Tipp!

Typhoon.

I actually felt sorry for Henry Shefflin goin off... that man shouldn'tve been forced to play.... never a good idea to go against medical advice

i see KK resorted to their usual trick... throwing hurleys when they're bet.. Cork done that with our lads a few years back... .... dangerous carry on... and should've been a red card

deisemum

Well done Tipp.

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BlaasForRafa

deisemum wrote: »

Well done Tipp.

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If only that were a real site

linny

aint it great to see even when kilkenny (the best city in southeast) loose a hurling match waterford is still so jealous of the southeast's top county
up d cats forever :D:D:D:D:D:D:D

lassykk

linny wrote: »

aint it great to see even when kilkenny (the best city in southeast) loose a hurling match waterford is still so jealous of the southeast's top county
up d cats forever :D:D:D:D:D:D:D

Well said and a big congrats to tipperary... Deserved winners

Sure I suppose they have to blow on about something seen as they cant even get close to winning one themselves

Cabaal

No matter what way you look at it it breaks down as follows for those that give a ****e:

Kilkenny 32 Wins, 24 Runner-up
Tipp 26 Wins, 10 Runner-up
Waterford 2 Wins, 4 Runner-up

Sure Kilkenny didn't get 5 in a row but if you look at the numbers its a far far superior team to other's to date and that fact can't be taken away.

People will come up with jokes some idiotic and some actually funny but it doesn't change reality

BlaasForRafa

linny wrote: »

aint it great to see even when kilkenny (the best city in southeast) loose a hurling match waterford is still so jealous of the southeast's top county
up d cats forever :D:D:D:D:D:D:D

Kilkenny isn't a city so it can't be the best city.

Waterford people only care insomuch as perhaps now kilkenny people will stfu about it for a while

abouttobebanned

This is embarrassing.

ziedth

True enough,

I couldn't imagine anyone saying Waterford are better at hurling and sone of the carry on here in work today is cringey at best but some people just love an underdog story like me while others really just want to see Kilkenny loose.

Fact of life is that success breeds contempt. man united have had to put up with this for years and hurling fans are no different.

I really wouldn't have given any kind of a hoot outside of enjoying the game till all this "k-team" shíte broke out. Kilkenny have been good champions in my honest but very limited opinion.

The important thing is as a MOD this is like our summer holidays till it all kicks off again

magick

linny wrote: »

aint it great to see even when kilkenny (the best city in southeast) loose a hurling match waterford is still so jealous of the southeast's top county
up d cats forever :D:D:D:D:D:D:D

Yet you post in the Waterford forum............... interesting,

your troll powers are weak old man!

dayshah

Cabaal wrote: »

No matter what way you look at it it breaks down as follows for those that give a ****e:

Kilkenny 32 Wins, 24 Runner-up
Tipp 26 Wins, 10 Runner-up
Waterford 2 Wins, 4 Runner-up

Sure Kilkenny didn't get 5 in a row but if you look at the numbers its a far far superior team to other's to date and that fact can't be taken away.

People will come up with jokes some idiotic and some actually funny but it doesn't change reality

Shame they don't have 32 factories, and they wouldn't all be coming over here for a job

gscully

Oh cheer up Kilkenny, you'll be getting decent roads soon!

...and just like Liam McCarthy, they'll be bypassing Kilkenny City too :P

Cabaal

dayshah wrote: »

Shame they don't have 32 factories, and they wouldn't all be coming over here for a job

You haven't look around Waterford much have you, it isn't exactly a maufactoring giant anymore as half the places have closed.....its a by gone age when Waterford had factorys
:rolleyes:

gscully

Cabaal wrote: »

You haven't look around Waterford much have you, it isn't exactly a maufactoring giant anymore as half the places have closed.....its a by gone age when Waterford had factorys
:rolleyes:

Typical cat...Meeeeeeeeoooooooooooooowww! :P

I can't wait until this nonsense stops and we can all be friends again...

Cabaal

gscully wrote: »

Typical cat...Meeeeeeeeoooooooooooooowww! :P

I can't wait until this nonsense stops and we can all be friends again...

Sure thing :rolleyes:
Nah seriously I don't give a monkeys about all this sport crap, I didn't even watch the match and hardly ever do tbh.

gscully

Cabaal wrote: »

Sure thing :rolleyes:
Nah seriously I don't give a monkeys about all this sport crap, I didn't even watch the match and hardly ever do tbh.

Same here. It's amazing how people get so worked up about it and good friendships get seriously tested every September.

shapez

As a Kilkenny man, I am delighted for Tipp. It was a great game of hurling that shows what level is needed to be at the top. Pure heart and self belief. Great to see it from a non professional sport.

Musicman2000

Here we go again, Waterford V Kilkenny, lads its a game, Tipp deserved the win and fair play to them.Kilkenny are a top class team which ever way you look at them, Its a sport at the end of the day, and anyone that plays hurling like myself will agree with me, not the jersey grabbers that come out every Sept looking for an excuse ro rub each other up the wrong way, Its not the Gaza strip down there:)

abouttobebanned

Well said...

and that's the cue for a mod to lock this and let's get this place back to being a waterford forum again.

savic04

The only sad thing to come from yesterday is how far away We(Waterford) really are in terms of winning an All Ireland...

ziedth

abouttobebanned wrote: »

Well said...

and that's the cue for a mod to lock this and let's get this place back to being a waterford forum again.

You want to start a nightclub thread

abouttobebanned

Nah, we'd have nothing to talk about.

nkay1985

It's all a bit of craic but I'm happy that KK didn't win it for the simple reason that it'll have taken the fans that are cocky and arrogant down a peg or two. I'm not saying that all or even many KK fans are like that but when you work somewhere with large numbers of people you come across it quite a bit. You'd swear all they had to do was tog out this year to win 5 in a row the way they were going on. Tipp's win is good for hurling and good for my head!

Green Hornet

nkay1985 wrote: »

Iit'll have taken the fans that are cocky and arrogant down a peg or two. I'm not saying that all or even many KK fans are like that but when you work somewhere with large numbers of people you come across it quite a bit. You'd swear all they had to do was tog out this year to win 5 in a row

To be fair, I'm not from Waterford and I've come across a lot of Waterford people carrying on exactly the same way over the last few years. What annoyed me was that Waterford had nothing to back it up. Not looking for an argument but just saying that it goes on everywhere.

KevIRL

Urrrrrgh, try not to be so small time folks. Tipp throughly deserved their win yesterday and I'm thrilled for them, at the same time I feel for what was a great KK team losing out on their chance at history, lest we forget this KK team are arguably the greatest ever and have been awsome to watch the last few years. Also they have been gracious always in victory and yesterday in defeat.

From a Waterford point of view yesterday was good in so far as it showed the team that the black and amber arent unbeatable in the championship. We obviously have a way to go, but with the u-14's winning the Tony Forristal, our minors doing well again this season there is talent coming through.

In the meantime on with the county championship!

dayshah

Cabaal wrote: »

Sure thing :rolleyes:
Nah seriously I don't give a monkeys about all this sport crap, I didn't even watch the match and hardly ever do tbh.

So why bother with a thread thats obviously about the hurling?

Cabaal

dayshah wrote: »

So why bother with a thread thats obviously about the hurling?

Given this isn't a sport forum I'm of course free to post in any thread I want, the fact that Waterford people seem so obsessed with the final even though they weren't even in it is kind of amusing

gscully

Cabaal wrote: »

Given this isn't a sport forum I'm of course free to post in any thread I want, the fact that Waterford people seem so obsessed with the final even though they weren't even in it is kind of amusing

Hey, we had the referee!

dayshah

Cabaal wrote: »

Given this isn't a sport forum I'm of course free to post in any thread I want, the fact that Waterford people seem so obsessed with the final even though they weren't even in it is kind of amusing

Its not a sports forum, and you are free to post here.

I just don't see why someone would bother post in a thread about hurling saying that they don't care about hurling.

If you don't care why bother post anything??

Chris P. Bacon

gscully wrote: »

Hey, we had the referee!

The ref and the umpires were all roanmore men

Godsentme

Moment of the match!!!!


To see the great(?) KK side reduced to throwing hurleys a players in an attempt to stop him scoring????


HOW DESPERATELY DESPERATELY FCKING SAD.......

deisedevil

Cabaal wrote: »

Given this isn't a sport forum I'm of course free to post in any thread I want, the fact that Waterford people seem so obsessed with the final even though they weren't even in it is kind of amusing

You don't understand sport in the slightest and you seem to acknowledge this but yet in the same sentence you say you find those interested in an AI final they are not involved in amusing, shur any GAA fan in the whole country and beyond are interested in AI finals. Sports fans like watching sport, not just when their own team is involved.

Psychedelic

It wasn't just Waterford people who were delighted to see Kilkenny lose, it was pretty much the majority of the country outside of Kilkenny.

And it wasn't just a spiteful hatred of Kilkenny that people wanted to see them lose, most people just wanted to see someone else win the thing for a change. If Tipp (or any other team) end up winning 4 in a row everyone will want to see them lose too. It's the same in any sport, people get fed up seeing the same players/teams winning too much.

dayshah

Psychedelic wrote: »

And it wasn't just a spiteful hatred of Kilkenny that people wanted to see them lose, most people just wanted to see someone else win the thing for a change.

I agree. A few years back I wanted Kilkenny to win (I think they were playing Cork in the final), because I liked the style of how they were playing. I got a bit fed up of them being almost a sure thing, and so wanted Tipp to win.

Overall it was a good match. The referee kept the game under control (though I probably would have sent off your man for throwing the hurley), and I don't think there were any bookings until into the second half. It was a good clean game, and both teams hurled, rather than just intimidate eachother.

Next year if Kilkenny were playing against a team I considered to be playing dirty, I would shout for Kilkenny. (OK, not shout, but gently whisper at least )

Daysha

People get too worked up about this kinda thing. I wanted Tipp to win and of course I've had some friendly banter with my Kilkenny friends ever since, but it's never anything malicious.

People have given out to me for joining these facebook groups ever since Sunday, but it's part and parcel of the enjoyment for me. A bit of slagging is all fun as long as it's good natured. If it were Waterford that were on the end of the defeat on Sunday, I'd fully expect Kilkenny people to get a chuckle out of it and I wouldn't blame them.

Tis only a game lads

JohnC.

Psychedelic wrote: »

It wasn't just Waterford people who were delighted to see Kilkenny lose, it was pretty much the majority of the country outside of Kilkenny.

And it wasn't just a spiteful hatred of Kilkenny that people wanted to see them lose, most people just wanted to see someone else win the thing for a change. If Tipp (or any other team) end up winning 4 in a row everyone will want to see them lose too. It's the same in any sport, people get fed up seeing the same players/teams winning too much.

I don't really get this. I'd have thought neutrals would like to see an historic record being broken. Sure, if KK kept going after that (or even the years leading up to it), I'd understand wanting them to lose. But what could very well be the only chance any of us would get to see an historic record and all there is is bile. I know if I was a neutral and some other county was going for such an achievement, I'd be behind them, as long as they weren't playing my county, of course.

Sack

G'WAN TIPP!

Musicman2000

Godsentme wrote: »

Moment of the match!!!!


To see the great(?) KK side reduced to throwing hurleys a players in an attempt to stop him scoring????


HOW DESPERATELY DESPERATELY FCKING SAD.......

Stupid thing to do, throwing a hurley wasnt going to change anything, but Godsentme kk have won four in a row, and it is a great achievement, and someone throwing a hurley wont change that simple as. and if was waterford or Tipp I would say the same thing.

Psychedelic

Kahless wrote: »

I don't really get this. I'd have thought neutrals would like to see an historic record being broken. Sure, if KK kept going after that (or even the years leading up to it), I'd understand wanting them to lose. But what could very well be the only chance any of us would get to see an historic record and all there is is bile. I know if I was a neutral and some other county was going for such an achievement, I'd be behind them, as long as they weren't playing my county, of course.

If they won the 5 in a row, next year would you hope they do the 6 in a row, 7 in a row....? I don't care for that kind of record. I love seeing Bolt smash the 100m world record, or seeing Ronnie O'Sullivan make a 147 break in 5 minutes.

I would've said well done to KK if they did the 5 in a row, but for the sake of the sport I'm glad they didn't. Similarly in darts I get fed up seeing Phil Taylor winning 9 or 10 world championships in a row. Ooh he's won 9 in a row, can he win 10 in a row? It's good to see someone else win it rather than some boring record being made.

KK got a record 4 in a row, they have the highest number of All Ireland and Leinster titles, most of their players have plenty of All Ireland medals and All Stars. So what if they didn't get the 5 in a row.

JohnC.

Psychedelic wrote: »

If they won the 5 in a row, next year would you hope they do the 6 in a row, 7 in a row....?

I did address that in my post.

dayshah

Kahless wrote: »

I don't really get this. I'd have thought neutrals would like to see an historic record being broken.

Overall I think its bad for a sport if it is dominated by one team. Its the uncertainty that makes it fun to watch.

I think the uncertainty of who will win is more interesting than how many times Kilkenny can win in a row.

ziedth

dayshah wrote: »

Overall I think its bad for a sport if it is dominated by one team. Its the uncertainty that makes it fun to watch.

I think the uncertainty of who will win is more interesting than how many times Kilkenny can win in a row.

This is absolutely true,

Neutrals IMHO cokuldnt give leas of a ****e about records and the like they want the underdog always to win. It goes back to my man united point. Allot of people have a thiing against them based on their suceas in the late 90's on.

Professey Chin

ziedth wrote: »

This is absolutely true,

Neutrals IMHO cokuldnt give leas of a ****e about records and the like they want the underdog always to win. It goes back to my man united point. Allot of people have a thiing against them based on their suceas in the late 90's on.

Same with Schumacher & Ferrari in F1 a few years ago.
How many rule changes seemed to be brought in purely to stop them winning?
Be thankful the GAA didnt take that approach............well maybe they did with the helmets.Players less afraid of getting hit :pac: