The Tipperary GAA (Club and Intercounty) Thread

That was magnificent, just sheer guts and desire got them there. Brendan just seems to get better and better with age, absolutely immense but wasn't the only one. Ballygunner were 1/6 to win that game!

All Ireland semi vs St Thomas's of Galway on 4/5 January.

JJs Left Hand wrote: »

This is a disgrace by the way. Setting All Ireland semi finals for a date that close to Christmas and NYE basically tells them they can't have a few drinks and they can't go away as training will be in full flow in those couple of weeks beforehand.

disgrace is a bit OTT. The players can have a few drinks on a few nights around the holiday period. What do you do other than this. Moving finals from March to earlier is a good thing and we'll see change to calender year soon enough.

Mantis Toboggan wrote: »

Agree, Christmas pretty much cancelled for them but I'd imagine they'd take it given they're waiting since 87 to get back there.

Hard to know what the alternative is, final at the end of January is better that having to wait for Patrick's day. Ideally they they should be wrapped up in the calendar year.

can only change to calender year with changes to inter county and counties being better at managing their own competitions. Which has got better but could still be so much better again

Fair play to Borrisoleigh. Was full sure Ballygunner would win this one pulling up, experience of the final, inter county players etc.
But by god Borris hung in there and slogged this one out. Brendan Maher was inspirational and drove them on, but there is a great work ethic around this team. They fight tooth and nail for the ball from 1-15.

At the county semi stage I had them down as the weakest of the teams and have backed every team they've played since to beat them, but they continue to surprise and grind out the results. Great to have a Tipp club doing so well, as we've been poor in senior club hurling for a number of years. On to the semi finals in January, and I'll be backing St. Thomas's

solerina wrote: »

Also this date could well coincide with the Tipp hurlers holiday, and the lads especially Brendan Maher really deserve this holiday. The waiting from now until March 17th is out dated and rediculous imo.

And that's why they have gotten rid of it! Final is on the 20th January.

solerina wrote: »

well sorry for not being as up to date with the fixtures as you are !!

No need to apologise, not sure why you thought you needed to

Ompala wrote: »

Tipp Fixtures for the National Hurling League 2020

Round 1 Saturday 25th January Tipperary vs Limerick 17:15 Semple Stadium

Round 2 Saturday 1st February Cork vs Tipperary 19:00 Pairc Ui Chaoimh

Round 3 Sunday 16th February Galway vs Tipperary 14:00 Pearse Stadium

Round 4 Sunday 23rd February Tipperary vs Westmeath 14:00 MacDonagh Park Nenagh

Round 5 Sunday 1st March Tipperary vs Waterford 14:00 Semple Stadium

Be very interesting to see what approach Sheedy takes to the league, if you were to win the league it would mean possibly playing 6 games in 6 weeks which is not ideal in February/March and then have the players go and play upto 4 games with their clubs in April.

shmeee wrote: »

No chance in hell that will happen!

The Club Break of 5 weeks yet again will be dictated to suit the inter-county scene.

There is a 7 week break between League final and first game v Waterford

And I'm talking about players from dual clubs. We played 3 last year and there are two extra weekend this year.

Pogue eile wrote: »

There is a 7 week break between League final and first game v Waterford

And I'm talking about players from dual clubs. We played 3 last year and there are two extra weekend this year.

Clubs are only getting a 5 week window as released by the GAA in their master fixture plan yesterday.

The McGarths and them wont be playing more than 3 games you can be sure.

Be one round of hurling maybe a divisional round and then football.

We won the All Ireland this year and to be fair, the club season flowded nicely afterwards and wasn't a huge overload of midweek games apart from a few dual clubs.

Pogue eile wrote: »

Croke Park's master fixture plan is not binding on individual county boards, they can do as they see fit outside of the intercounty season.

The McGraths played 4 games last April in a shorter window.

It is being discussed currently to finish the divisional championships in April.

The club scene did in no way flow nicely, it was a joke with teams being forced to play 3 games in 7 days after waiting 5 months for a game. Loughmore as a result threw the Mid Championship, Kiladangan were forced to withdraw from the Senior Football Championship and there were a litany of clubs who had to decimate their second teams as a result of the injuries and suspensions that their first teams endured as a result of the fixture backlog.

I am going to assume you are not a club player from your comments? There is a reason you know why the CPA withdrew from the fixtures committee.

I am involved with a club, we had no major issues ( 3 games in a week etc) so I was not at the front line of it therefore.

Loughmore have the same problem every year, and this year they just took it upon themselves to do what they did, which was very unlike them who go out to win every game.

Kildangan had only one focus this year and if any one tells you different then it's BS, they got into 2 County Hurling Finals and this was because they said good luck to the big ball.

Clubs need to make a stance and refuse point blank to play games or else another year of getting pushed around will happen. Or else just split the season in half and at least give club players a set period of when games will happen. Training in February for one game in April to then wait until September to hit a ball again. That's the start of the problem!

Pogue eile wrote: »

Exactly, and that's why I am saying there will be more games this year that last between the National League and Munster Championship than last year, the clubs who make up 99.99% of the playing population have had enough.

What about these "training camps" which will pop up again.

What do you think is a fair amount of games?

2 in each code played?

Be hard to run off some of the divisional championships, especially the North.

shmeee wrote: »

What about these "training camps" which will pop up again.

What do you think is a fair amount of games?

2 in each code played?

Be hard to run off some of the divisional championships, especially the North.

I think if Liam Sheedy or whoever it maybe wants a trainning camp away with the players, there are plenty of other times this can happen, County board need to remember they are represernting the Clubs first and foremost and be stronger with Inter county managment, fair but strong.

I would strongly agree with the proposal to play the divisions to a finish, even in North Tipp its only 4 rounds and your not impacted by football to the extent of other divisions. Also it avoids the farce of starting two competitions in April and not completing either for at least 6 months.

There was a motion that was very narrowly defeated at the convnetion which wopuld have been perfect, they proposed to also seperate the divisions between Dan Breen teams and the Seamus Ui Riann teams, if the relevant division chose fit. For the North 7 teams in each, 3 rounds and an extra 7 teams with an actual chance of winninig a trophy. Incredibly two clubs in the North out of hte 14 actually voted against it, two clubs that have about as much chance of winning a North Senior title in its current guise as I have of winning Miss World!

Pogue eile wrote: »

There was a motion that was very narrowly defeated at the convnetion which wopuld have been perfect, they proposed to also seperate the divisions between Dan Breen teams and the Seamus Ui Riann teams, if the relevant division chose fit. For the North 7 teams in each, 3 rounds and an extra 7 teams with an actual chance of winninig a trophy. Incredibly two clubs in the North out of hte 14 actually voted against it, two clubs that have about as much chance of winning a North Senior title in its current guise as I have of winning Miss World!

But clubs feel that, a motion like such is a step to turning our Senior B clubs into Premier Intermediate grade, which clubs won't agree too.

They have no problem going the opposite way in the boardroom.

Pogue eile wrote: »

Be very interesting to see what approach Sheedy takes to the league, if you were to win the league it would mean possibly playing 6 games in 6 weeks which is not ideal in February/March and then have the players go and play upto 4 games with their clubs in April.

My own 2 cents on our league - I'd prefer to be out earlier to be honest. Not pushed about the league in terms of winning it.

We reached the finals in 2017 & 2018 and suffered heavy defeats both times. I don't think its a coincidence that we were very poor in our first championship games after these.

I recall vs Cork in 2017 in particular we were very lethargic on the ball. Seemed the whole team was burnt out.

I'd prefer us to get a chance to blood some of the new lads. No harm in keeping some of the class of 2010 stalwarts in reserve a bit. We have a lot of young players like Mark Kehoe, Jake Morris, Ger Browne and Brian McGrath to try out.

In particular, are we going to stick with Ronan at full back going forward. Him covering back there played a massive role in winning us the All Ireland this year. Is Heffernan going to stay in the full back line? Would Killian O Dwyer be better to try in the corner back slot and keep Heffernan in the half back line given his aerial ability?

Up front, we have a lot of combination of forwards we could try. Would like to see O'Meara and Kehoe tried in the wing forward positions. They seem to be fond of taking on their man when they get ball in hand and have good movement for puck outs.

Lots of pieces for SHeedy to ponder, and I'm sure I only scratched the surface.

Massively disappointing stuff from commercials today who ended up getting bet out the gate and lost by 9 (bookies had the spread at 2 points) hard luck lads.

Blondie919 wrote: »

Seems to be a lot of us looking to rewatch the Semi. Surely someone has it saved or copied somewhere??

Tallowman has the tipp v laois 1/4 up now, hopefully the semi will be up before/over the Christmas

Tipperary animal lover wrote: »

Tallowman has the tipp v laois 1/4 up now, hopefully the semi will be up before/over the Christmas

Limerick vs Kilkenny semi final up now, so hopefully soon the other semi will be up.