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

Hurling is poor.

It’s too staid, it’s like a sport being played by excel sheet. It’s too stop start, 70/80 shots on goal, the ball out of play after 20 seconds. Constant throwing and breaking of the steps rule meaning the ball is in hand more than on the hurl. Constant fouling.

The sport needs an overhaul. Unfortunately, there’s too many cowards in the GAA to tackle the prevailing opinion of the Sunday Game panelists, who believe the modern possession based hurling means the sport has never been better.

Waterford with loss 18 out of 24 in round robin Munster hurling.

You swear Cork are the dirtiest team in championship. Get a grip.

It wasn't a great performance by Cork but we did what he had to do. We'll be underdogs against Limerick but i think there's a big performance in us.

Even though i like Galway it's a shame Waterford weren't able to get over the line in 2017 that really was their now or never moment. Hard luck to them today they've been having an awful time with the round robin format!

The fear is apparently they could be in for a few really barren years at senior level when the older players retire. Hopefully that won't be the case though.

Congrats to Offaly as well i was delighted to see them secure their McCarthy cup status for at least another year.

Not what I said, but they might be the most cynical. Certainly up there

Unfortunately the current tiers in hurling don't have the number of teams to fill four QFs without a meaningful knockout prior to this. 5 Munster + 3 Leinster on quality would probably fill these. We would only lose a Dublin or Wexford to 9th place and its quickly at the point of why bother playing anything before the QF stage

Galway made hard work of that win.

Agree, Cork great for 35 mins v Clare as well, but have struggled since, allowing for the sending off before the Tipp game, hard to know where they stand really - rest of games largely muck

It was good to see Joe Canning finally win an Ireland medal though. Hopefull Hoggie might finally win his medal this year!

If we win the all Ireland by way of someone else knocking out Limerick for us, then i'd be more than happy with that scenario as well!

For all the success Kilkenny have enjoyed under Cody, the last team to be feared to this extent by some Cork fans was that Tipperary team from the early to mid 60's.

They used to dish out some brutal hammerings to us! Oh god and then there was 1991 i'll always hate Tipp more than i do Kilkenny!🤣

Disappointing game in Cork. Even the majority cork fans never really got into it. Connolly and Barrett were very good as well as the old reliable harnedy. Coleman gets a lot of stick from his own fans but I thought he did fine. Tim o mahony was very poor though.

For all the negativity about waterfords future some of the young lads were very good. Mark and Patrick Fitzgerald plus Sean Walsh did well in his first start.

Cork will improve you can bé Sure. Might Not be enough to beat limerick in 2 weeks but they'll beat dublin in a quarter final and will be a very dangerous team in croke park. Put downey o' Leary and Dalton back there and their squad improves plenty. Pity for mellerick, looked to get a nasty hand injury.

Was an ok round robin this year. I guess we cant always get epic last rounds. Today lacked energy it seems and we were robbed of a potential classic in Cork v Tipp. Notably, my own county man, who brandished an early red against Tipp, seems to have kept his hand out of his pocket for obvious black and red cards today. So what are the rules? It seems to depend on the occasion. Early round robin totally different to knockout. Pretty pathetic from the refs and GAA. Heard there should have been reds in the Galway game too that weren't given.

The worry now is if some teams fall away given a mixture of age profiles and underage conveyor belts. The next few years could become more predictable.

I had a look at Leinster and Munster and the scoring stats match up pretty closely when you remove Offaly (-30) and Antrim (-77) and focus on the top 4 in Leinster vs the 5 in Munster. A theme put forward the last few years and restated on the Kilkenny thread this year is that there's no defending in Munster…well:

10 Round Robin games in Munster

Average score of 1.65-22.95 or 27.9 - Call it 2-22

Home wins 5 (50%)

Away wins 3 (30%)

Draws 2 (20%)

Average margin of Victory - 6.8

Average winning score - 2.375-24.625 or 31.75 - call it 2-26

10+ point victories - 2 (20%)

6 Round Robin games in Leinster (without Antrim and Offaly)

Average score of 2.25-21.08 or 27.83 - Call it 2-22

Home wins 5 (83%)

Away wins 1 (17%)

Draws 0 (0%)

Average margin of Victory - 7.0

Average winning score - 2.33-24.33 or 31.32 - call it 2-25

10+ point victories - 2 (33.33%)

Scoring extremely similar, Munster much less predicable for home results.

9 games left not 7

there are 2 games that are preliminary quarter-finals against joe mcdonagh teams.. pointless games that will be one-sided i wasnt counting them… having said that will be interesting to see how Kildare fare out against Liam McCarthy opposition