All Ireland Senior Hurling Championship 2025 (Munster And Leinster Championships,Liam McCarthy Cup)

Clare 66/1 for All Ireland now. Still nearly better value that a team that haven't won a title 20 years at 6/5🤫

And it's at the point now where people are saying the angels of Kilkenny would have never played dirty back in the day.

If anything Tipp were the dirty team today, borderline cynical fouling any time a clare forward broke the line, a fairly blatant frontal charge on Tony Kelly that ended up as a Tipp free aswell and there was a few more instances. If our lads had been a bit more cynical they might not have let in 4 goals in 20 minutes without laying a hand on a Tipp man. The lack of a centre back and leaving one defender exposed on several occasions in the full back line ultimately lost the game for us though. John Mcgrath is a class hurler buts he's no gazelle and he shouldn't be getting around lads.

You’re up against it when the mods are joining in.

in my opinion he's one of the best in his generation , probably too quiet and modest in the media to raise a profile for himself , on the tipp page i asked the lads early last year where he was , they had said he will be lucky to see out any more than 20 minutes a game for tipp

this year he has the goal of the season contender against limerick , the point of the season contender today against us , and 2-3 in the process , a good footballer too

The only Honest, rational person here tonight.

Well said, and that's from a Clare fan...

Cheers. I'm not a clare man but you have to admire the way they keep fighting back against the odds. Especially with so many experienced players missing

that's the way i am looking at it , if i had a criticism of lohan we keep allowing teams the extra man for the puck out

we go man to man in the back 5 and use kelly or ryan taylor as the extra man, teams are all over this and tonight jake morris brought darragh lohan to the sideline , Conor leen cant move and adam hogan is brought to the other sideline and big gaps start opening up

fair enough we don't like playing a sweeper system like fitz did , but if you either push up on the puckouts or drop a midfielder back it kills a teams set piece , its like the nfl a copycat league , if you play man coverage all the time without pressing upfront teams will quickly find a way around you,

not sure why you feel Clare fans needed to be given a reality check. But fair enough if that's your feeling

Re playing on the edge it is needed at times to push past another team.

Tipp brought a lot of it to Ennis yesterday particularly their backs who were definitely on the edge to stop Clare attack. I don't think I'd call it a tactic rather than it becomes a necessity.

Now krazy you know excellent mature honest posts with no digs aren't allowed here. Exactly my thoughts but fair play to both teams just fantastic entertainment. An amazing competition

Thought Tipp would have enough to win this. We did. Just. Great to have it in our hands now. Expect well over 20k in Thurles next week.

Don't buy this poor me spiel of Clare being down half a team. They had O'Donnell on the bench, who they didn't have for the first 2 games. Fitzgerald and McCarthy were fit to play. Their poor form doesn't count as being down men, if it does then we were down O'Connor and Bowe and Hogan.

Clare were down 3 in reality, Cleary, Ryan and Conlon. But Conlon played a part too.

We were down a suspended McCarthy, and an injured Caesar.

One big issue we had was poor conversion rate 1st half with the wind which was substantial. Too many unforced wides. With the wind, we needed the gap to be 12 to 15 for it to be comfortable. That was possible had we converted enough 1st half.

All in our hands now. Waterford will fancy a go at us. We made 4 changes from the Limerick/Cork games. I'd expect a couple more for next week. It's not a 15 man game anymore. You have to be able to work with 20 potential starters minimum.

Getting game time into Conor Stakelum is big for us. Getting him to the pitch of things is important for Tipp. That was his first start of the year, Ormonds 2nd I think after the Galway league game.

Next weekends games are going to be huge.

Expect 45k in Limerick too. Big game for them. Lose and progression could come down to Clare v Limerick. Hard to imaging Limerick under pressure to advance though.

Tipp fully deserved their win they took their goal chances when they knew they could and then kept their cool weathered a comeback attempt and saw out the game. They should drive that on now and come out of Munster if they get over Waterford.

It's not a poor me or to take from Tipps win to look at the team that started and acknowledge that key positions in the Clare team had very inexperienced players in them. It's a reality not an excuse just facts.

As a moderator on this forum you should be disappointed with this post imo.