2012 Munster Final - Tipp v Waterford, RTÉ 2, 3.15.

Lapin

2012 Munster Hurling Final, Pairc Uí Caoimh 15 July, 4pm

Tipperary V Waterford

Its pissin rain over Pairc Uí Caoimh with an hour and half to the throw in.

Tipperary

1. Brendan Cummins (Ballybacon-Grange)
2. Conor O’Brien (Éire Óg Annacarty)
3. Paul Curran (Mullinahone) Captain
4. Michael Cahill (Thurles Sarsfields)
5. Thomas Stapleton (Templederry Kenyons)
6. Conor O’Mahony (Newport)
7. Padraic Maher (Thurles Sarsfields)
8. Brendan Maher (Borris–Ileigh)
9. Shane McGrath (Ballinahinch)
10. Pa Bourke (Thurles Sarsfields)
11. Patrick Maher (Lorrha & Dorrha)
12. Lar Corbett (Thurles Sarsfields)
13. Brian O’Meara (Kilruane MacDonaghs)
14. John O’Brien (Toomevara)
15. Noel McGrath (Loughmore Castleiney)


Waterford

1 - Stephen O'Keeffe - Ballygunner
2 - Noel Connors - Passage
3 - Liam Lawlor - Fourmilewater
4 - Stephen Daniels - De La Salle
5 - Tony Browne - Mount Sion
6 - Michael Walsh - Stradbally
7 - Kevin Moran - De La Salle
8 - Stephen Molumphy - Ballyduff Upper
9 - Philip Mahony - Ballygunner
10 - Pauric Mahony - Ballygunner
11 - Seamus Prendergast - Ardmore
12 - Maurice Shanahan - Lismore
13 - John Mullane - De La Salle
14 - Shane Walsh - Fourmilewater
15 - Gavin O Brien - Roanmore.

Tipp's experience to carry them over the line, but I don't expect to see Waterford taking a beating on they scale the suffered last year. Tipp by 4 - 6 points, although it looks like the weather will play a big part in this game. Looking forward to it.

MrJoeSoap

Looking forward to 4pm. Few days in sport match the Munster Hurling Final. Can't really see anything but a Tipperary win, but hopeful Waterford can pull another great Munster final out of the bag.

Up the Deise!

SeaFields

Its bucketing down in cork at the moment and looks like no let up. Will make for a scrappy match.

marco_polo

Tipp win the minor 1-16 to 1-12. Completely dominated the first half by all accounts after a bright start by Clare. Held off a mini second half revival to win.

nkay1985

Can anyone verify if the RTE website is down? Not just the live tv section, can't connect to any bit of it!

MrJoeSoap

nkay1985 wrote: »

Can anyone verify if the RTE website is down? Not just the live tv section, can't connect to any bit of it!

Nope, working fine here.

Lapin

nkay1985 wrote: »

Can anyone verify if the RTE website is down? Not just the live tv section, can't connect to any bit of it!

Working fine for me in Galway nkay.

InchicoreDude

nkay1985 wrote: »

Can anyone verify if the RTE website is down? Not just the live tv section, can't connect to any bit of it!

working for me [in dublin]

ShamoBuc

Classic.
"It's stopped raining here and is brightening up nicely for the start of the final" - back from the break and it's Torrential..lol

nkay1985

Balls. It's never been blocked in work. Must be some odd problem because I can get onto anything else.

nkay1985

I've found an alternative thankfully. Absolutely raging I'm not there.

Patsy fyre

Up the Premier

croker1

Good to see John o Shea hasn't forgotten where he came from and is in cork to watch a real game for a change :P

Neeson

Should've put some money on Waterford.

cgc5483

I've no commentary anyone else with similar problem. Can hear the pitch and crowd noises but nothing else.

Patsy fyre

Mikey Cahill struggling big time sofar. Need to be infront of mullane every time.

padd b1975

Cliche alert.

Muster Hurling Final-unique Irish occasion that must be kept in the GAA calender.

The ground is about 2/3s full!!

Lapin

cgc5483 wrote: »

I've no commentary anyone else with similar problem. Can hear the pitch and crowd noises but nothing else.

You're better off.

Ger Canning is raving on about the shoot out at the OK Corrall.

Patsy fyre

Crazy decision to take pa Burke. Ryan will be in trouble if we lose here.

MrJoeSoap

Patsy fyre wrote: »

Crazy decision to take pa Burke. Ryan will be in trouble if we lose here.

Baffling, Pa Bourke has been their best forward this year.

Fantastic first 35 minutes hurling.

MrJoeSoap

padd b1975 wrote: »

Cliche alert.

Muster Hurling Final-unique Irish occasion that must be kept in the GAA calender.

The ground is about 2/3s full!!

26,438 out of 43,500. Given that it's a rotten day in a ground that neither county wanted the match played in, it's not that bad.

68Murph68

MrJoeSoap wrote: »

26,438 out of 43,500. Given that it's a rotten day in a ground that neither county wanted the match played in, it's not that bad.

Wonder how many would be in attendance if it was in Semple? Would it be an extra 5000? 3000?

marco_polo

O'Keefe really is a magnificent young keeper. Might well be the all star no.1 by the years end.

padd b1975

MrJoeSoap wrote: »

26,438 out of 43,500. Given that it's a rotten day in a ground that neither county wanted the match played in, it's not that bad.

Had not heard about the dispute of venue.

marco_polo

MrJoeSoap wrote: »

padd b1975 wrote: »

Cliche alert.

Muster Hurling Final-unique Irish occasion that must be kept in the GAA calender.

The ground is about 2/3s full!!

26,438 out of 43,500. Given that it's a rotten day in a ground that neither county wanted the match played in, it's not that bad.

Probably another 10000 wandering around Cork trying to find the feicin' place

solarith

marco_polo wrote: »

O'Keefe really is a magnificent young keeper. Might well be the all star no.1 by the years end.

Made mistake there, should never have attacked it. That's experience though.

Lapin

68Murph68 wrote: »

Wonder how many would be in attendance if it was in Semple? Would it be an extra 5000? 3000?

Possibly.

All from Tipp though.

niallo27

Standard of refs is shocking, 2 big goals in 2 games have come from pathetic descions.

Neeson

Who got the second goal?

Lapin

Tipp defence like a brick wall.

marco_polo

solarith wrote: »

marco_polo wrote: »

O'Keefe really is a magnificent young keeper. Might well be the all star no.1 by the years end.

Made mistake there, should never have attacked it. That's experience though.

Missed the second goal popped out for a smoke, woops. Take it I jinxed him?

Mushy

niallo27 wrote: »

Standard of refs is shocking, 2 big goals in 2 games have come from pathetic descions.

As bad a decision it was, the ref hasnt favoured any team. Waterford should have cleared their lines before it too.

Mushy

Neeson wrote: »

Who got the second goal?

Shane Bourke, had just come on for O' Meara.

Lapin

Great block down by Lar.

Waterford starting to panic and beat themselves now.

Mushy

Champions again:-)

markie29

Ger Canning sounds like he lost a lot of money on that game ..when the final whistle went there was no excitement in his voice at all.

Well done Tipperary deserved win.

Patsy fyre

Woohoo munster champions for the 40th time, mon the Premier.

ShamoBuc

Well deserved win.

Fireball07

Tipp forwards able to score too easy, Shane Bourke's goal and the missed frees were the crucial things. Bourke's goal was a terrible one to concede.

Diabhal Beag

Waterford wasted everything.

Lapin

Stop shouting Paul.

Let the microphone do the work man.

dastardly00

Lapin wrote: »

Stop shouting Paul.

Let the microphone do the work man.

'TANKS' lol

MrJoeSoap

Lapin wrote: »

Stop shouting Paul.

Let the microphone do the work man.

Forgot to mention Clare when he spoke about the Munster Championship this year.

Patsy fyre

MrJoeSoap wrote: »

Lapin wrote: »

Stop shouting Paul.

Let the microphone do the work man.

Forgot to mention Clare when he spoke about the Munster Championship this year.

Was just talking about the teams we have beaten.

Sliderman

Can't wait to hammer Kilkenny if they get through

Patsy fyre

Tipp have better forwards and more players who are likely to score. They had 9 different scorers today. Waterford really relied to heavily on Mullane and to a lesser extent Shanahan for their scores. Once Cahill got on top of Mullane Waterford really started to struggle for scores.

Tipp had better subs off the bench also, who are all capable of making an impact on the game.

Defensively waterford played really well, but they are probably 1 midfielder and 3 forwards short of being an excellent team capable of winning an all ireland.

calvin_zola

Lapin wrote: »

Possibly.

All from Tipp though.

Nope alot of people from Waterford would have travelled if it was in tipp

liammur

Very poor attendance. Must be 1 of the lowest ever for a munster final. We need LK and cork back quickly.

Psychedelic

liammur wrote: »

Very poor attendance. Must be 1 of the lowest ever for a munster final. We need LK and cork back quickly.

I think there was 30,000 there? I wouldn't call that poor. There was only something like 15,000 at the Munster Final replay in 2010. The stadium wasn't packed to the rafters but it was nicely filled around from what I saw.

KevIRL

Psychedelic wrote: »

I think there was 30,000 there? I wouldn't call that poor. There was only something like 15,000 at the Munster Final replay in 2010. The stadium wasn't packed to the rafters but it was nicely filled around from what I saw.

26 thousand and a bit was the attendance. Poor alright, but not helped by the current economic situation in Waterford and the Munster Council refusing to move the game to a venue where both counties would have preferred - ie Thurles

doz

On a side note...Tipp had 5 Mahers in their 26, anyone know if this is some sort of record?