The Tipperary GAA Discussion Thread

Thanks. Yes, exactly, an outstanding under 21 team from five years ago. The famine enders. A good five years ago. Players like Aussie hitting their prime now - 26. A player who has had many ups and downs but is really delivering now.

Why did we not see in the league this or last year a selection in the league like

Barry hogan, barrett, pauric Maher, Connolly ,cadell, b McGrath, r Maher,

Dan McCormack , Willie connors, kehoe, forde, Niall omeara, morris, callinan, bubbles

Willie connors is a prime example of a man who should be doing the role Noel McGrath keeps being given. Can Willie connors do it, no idea but there is no way sheddy can know either because Willie connors has never got a real chance.

If we to use club form for picking tipp bubbles would never play for tipp

either would have Nicky English, Nicky player better quality football for his club then hurling

as for the multiple teams teams you have listed above for the league, that’s very interesting reading for two reasons

1. there was very little experimentation
2. what little experimentation was done was now looking back clearly done by sheedy to build his bench.

the young tipp players must have known from early in the year that no matter what they did in training sheedy had his team picked. Must have made for a divided panel.

It’s for the best

you don’t have any answers, you just blindly follow tipp regardless

you have had a go at Willie connors yet for example if he becomes a starter next year he will be a legend in your eyes who just was not ready in until 2022

same if tipp have a great year next year with a young team, you will it explain it by they were not ready in 2021

as far as hinting at a divided panel, I played hurling for my club for years and I have seeing in our club panels divisions over experience/ youth

anyone who has played gaa at club will admit to similar issues

if there is any truth that tipp B in training are beating tipp A, this I heard even before Clare game from someone who played tipp IC in the 2000s and is a good friend, then it has to be a divided panel as how could it not be

But they are getting game time, they got more game time than the last league, and in championship, they're being eased into it and treated rightly.

How many times have managers played youth for the sake of it, throwing them in, and hiding behind lines of developing a team and suddenly years later they're nowhere... and won nothing. These players are being developed nicely and haven't been just thrown in for the sake of it. Nor have they put in the performances at this time to merit inclusion.

the players went down fighting once more, as they tend to.

that is some harsh truth to be having with your supper. very close to the bone

Exactly.

Everybody knows that A v B training games are so frequent and the players games are so well-known to each other that the games become close. And B teams often beat A teams particularly in the lead up to games when lads are trying to mind themselves when they know they're starting (preventing injury) and lads are trying to prove a point, particularly when not picked.

Only a guy like shane brophy would make a big deal of that. Every recent inter county hurler's response on other podcasts to that news has been to dismiss it. They know the score.

We're not talking about club football 😁 News flash, Nicky English is no longer relevant... I think you're living in another age.

I was talking about county final. A COUNTY FINAL. The most important game in tipp of the year. And Willie wasn't in the same league as Noelie. Fact.

You said he could play the Noelie role - Willie is a completely different type of player.

Get out and watch a few club games be more in your line.

Keep a civil tone

i have played against SARS a few times. 2 names for you pa bourke and redser

both were outstanding club players. Full stop.

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This is the last time I respond to your level.

What former inter county player?

Journalists can be wrong.

Sheedy and his management team picked their team based on training and data? You saw none of it. You're going on hearsay. What talking about? Sheedy picked the players who performed in training? Sheedy himself last month:

"We’ve seen it across hurling and a number of sports. Really, age is a number,” he says.

“What I’m looking for all the time is life in the legs and the ability to get around the pitch and do great things.

“Every one of my panel, I see them in close situations, hip to hip and one v one, two v two and three v three. Ultimately that’s what I judge my team on.

“The reason they’ll be on the team sheet on Sunday won’t have anything to do with their age or how long they’re in there.

“It will be (a case of) who can start the job for us in the first round and who can come in and finish that job.

“Whether the guy that starts is 21 or 31, that will be based on the data that I have seen right in front of my eyes over the last number of months. That allows me to sleep very easily at night.

“I don’t really get caught up in what’s going on outside the group, and I have enough to control and occupy my mind with what’s going on inside.

“What they’ve given for the jersey over the last number of weeks and when they’ve been training on their own has been impeccable.

“So there will be none of them I can look in the eye and say you didn’t put it in, they’re all giving their absolute maximum.

“I’m very happy with the way everyone on the panel has applied themselves. They’re all giving it their absolute best and I can’t ask for any more.

“These guys are intent on giving this thing a right go.

“If we come up short it won’t be because of age. It will be because we simply aren’t good enough. But as regards their effort, I could not ask for any more from this group"

You'll be calling Sheedy a liar next.

You haven't seen any training matches, I'd say. You're making up stuff about Mark Kehoe in training. Now, that's mind bending.

Noel McGrath wasn't marking Jamie Baron... - sigh.

Cut out your condescending all knowing attitude

and the Jake morris substitution sums up everything I and others have been saying

Noel McGrath breen Alan Flynn and callinan should have all went before him but Liam sheedy again made the wrong and biased decision

yeah, and you could always take off Callanan who scored two goals off before Jake who scored nothing. And you could also take off Michael Breen who scored three points from play and leave on Jake who couldn't get into the game. And you could also take off Noelie who created most of our goal scoring chances but leave on Morris who couldn't get into the game and sure you could take off J McG after bringing him on because he only got two points and two shots on goal but Morris couldn't get into the game, leave him on, and yeah, because they're all old and he's young and that's enough shite from me too.