I don't believe that Tommy Dunne and Paul Curran left of their own accord. Bonnar already got instructed to shake up his backroom team.
I have no idea if he'll be kept on or not. The team's preparation this year was poor. In one game, can't remember which we got three frees in a short space of time, all from left half back roughly. Three different players took the three frees and all three went wide. At the time I thought it showed shocking leadership, like they were making it up as they went along.
They changed the goalkeeper halfway through the round robin. Surely they knew at the start of the championship which keeper was better suited to what we are trying to do.
The real let down this year was the poor showing of the players that came through in 2016 and 2019. So few of them stepped up it was so disappointing.
Tipp county board members are obviously talking to the media. Giving Colm the hint - bow out on your own terms. Whether he'll do that remains to be seen. I don't think he will. That's not his character. He'll have to be pushed. County Board will have to do something. Unless the players go to him and say that's that. If the county board don't do it, you could have a situation where Seamie, Forde, Barrett and Noelie have a word. But you'd be hoping the county board will deliver leadership on this.
Wells said
as I posted previously I emailed flloyd after the cork game and asked him what exactly was he doing in his role that justified him being kept on.
To simplify I stated tipp is too big a county and too wealthy a county to playing the sh1t that was played this year. We should be making semi finals every year minimum. Funny enough I asked to look at the minors this year, drawn from the whole county, not just the chosen ones who live in the north of the county, that bias is still a problem in tipp.
If you can't have the team fit and ready to go for the start of the championship that's a real indictment of your preparation. Some of the more experienced members of the panel would have worked with under other strength and conditioning programmes so they know what's good and whats not. These things cost a lot of money so maybe that was an issue and. Still really depressing the week before the All Ireland and we might be looking for a new management team
Listening to Tippcast today rumours that a panelist who is a teacher in heading to Dubai next year.
An absolute farce that he was ever hired to be Tipp senior hurling manager in 2022.
The job was obviously beyond him from day 1, as he set about reaching new low after new low with this team.
Lost to Kerry, a dismal showing in the league followed by the worst Championship performance in the history of Tipperary hurling. Completely embarassed by Clare and Cork.
No gameplan, players miles off the pace, terrible fitness, no puckout strategy - the whole thing was an absolute laugh.
Players privately calling the whole thing amateur hour, as well as his own team abandoning him tells its own story.
The County Board should be utterly ashamed that the appointment was ever ratified and if the best that could be done last year was Colm Bonnar (it wasn'tm given Willie Maher was also interviewed), then a few egos needed a serious bruising then and they needed to look outside the county towards the likes of Micheal Donoghue, or anybody else who was interested.
Thank f*ck some of his own team walked out on him to basically make his position untenable, because the CB would happily have p*ssed away another year trying to prove themselves right.
It’s for the best , forget about the skill levels , the players were not fit enough and were no where close to the level
there is a man in Waterford well able for it, get him at all costs
Talking to a few people who seem to believe that is that for Bonnar. These things always gather legs quickly. Hard to know what will happen. But if players are unhappy with prep that's that, I'd imagine.
There's a county board review meeting tonight.
Interesting few days ahead, decision due in the next week apparently!
Tommy Dunne and Curran have stepped away. Players have raised concerns about preparation. Bonnar can't go on if this is the case.
Those two corner forwards wouldn’t have been as effective if backs were properly coached on how to tackle the runner. Several times Tipp players had those two on the outside and tried to use the shoulder instead of standing off and making them throw it up . Fair play to offally for playing traditional hurling. Tipp subs made a difference again, great to win an all Ireland in all tight games
I thought the ref was consistent yesterday. He let the play flow as much as possible. Tipp played a straight forward free short and nothing came of it, and failed to convert a one on one with the goalkeeper, so they had chances. They completely dominated the last ten minutes.
Possibly Offaly lost it in the first half, they were very dominant and hit quite a few wides. I think early in the second half Tipp had taken 7 from 10 chances and Offaly 11 from 19 which I think reflected the balance of the game.
Offaly's half backline gobbled up the Tipp puck outs in the first half, much less so in the second half. Looking on the telly I thought Offaly's hurling especially in the first half was much slicker than Tipp's their forwards, especially the two corners were like will o' the wisps, really quick and desperately hard to mark. Whatever way Tipp set up in the second half the spaces weren't there for Offaly to feed the corner forwards as effectively.
I couldn't care less what you think to be honest, showed your true colours early on there.
Patronising comment and nothing to add either...stay going to your club games and just comment on them instead
Only seen the highlights, was at a club game myself but being honest if i was from Offaly I'd be fairly sore of not getting a free out just before the deceive free for the goal. Fair play to your lads for pulling it out of the bag, 6 points and a man down on 52 mins could easily have thrown in the towel but didn't.
Possibly the most ridiculous comment I've seen on any thread.
Credit to the Tipp players and subs, they really dominated the last ten minutes. It was some game of hurling, so fast and furious, with excellence in all aspects of hurling, hooking, blocking, scoring, a complete thrill a minute game.
F*ck me, what a finish. That Tipp team are made of something else. Never throw in the towel. But god, I do feel for that Offaly group as they were the better team for the majority of that match.
Great game.
Offaly gave it everything. A really savage team.
Tipp's never say die attitude all year came to fore again. A great minor team.
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So thrilled for Tipp, but the better team lost. All credit to Tipp for hanging in. Offaly's wides in the first half were a big factor. With the goal before half time we could have been dead at half time.
When we missed the goal chance I thought our goose was cooked.
Tough on Offaly they really are a very good team.
You're one f*cking kn*b.
Will be lucky to win the Joe McDonagh
Holy God
The future of Tipperary hurling is FOOKED.. if offaly minors can take us apart..we Can now see hurling in Tipperary going the same way offaly went..and that could be anything from.5 years on ..its pityfull
Always respect the opposition. Nothing to do with fear.
Sad to see Tipp worried about playing Offaly at any level; a pitch is pitch whether Nenagh, Birr, Tulllamore or Portlaois - if you're good enough, it won't matter a shite where it is played, and this is offaly for heaven's sake
I don't think there'll be any hammerings this time around.
