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

Kilkenny l am sure won’t appeal the result. Tipp won fair and square, you can’t let in 4 goals and you spect to win, Richie reid and paddy Deegan made some terrible errors in the last minutes, Having all that said, l have a sense Kilkenny three this away with basic errors . And the fact that they thought they needed a goal to draw when they could have being going for points to draw had a massive bearing. The ref was poor also, not the first time either. But well done Tipp👍 a good young team that have nothing to lose no in the final

Watching the game on TV I actually said to my wife that the scoreboard was wrong, Tipp were only three ahead, not four (just after they scored their fourth goal). I was waiting for RTE to rectify it. That never happened, and the whirlwind finish saw Kilkenny chasing what they thought was a three point deficit. For those who say it made no difference, I totally disagree. TJ Reid was hunting for a goal when he could easily have tapped it over the bar if he had known they were actually only two points down. In an All-Ireland semi-final it's just not good enough.

This explains why the officials were in a huddle at the end of the match deep in conversation. If that Kilkenny effort hadn't been cleared off the line we'd have been in a whole new world of trouble.

Imagine the consternation if the stadium thought we were set for extra-time, only to be told that the scoreboard was incorrect and Kilkenny had actually won by a point?! Mayhem would have ensued.

Which brings me to my final point - how did this actually happen? If the referee didn't award a point for that Tipp effort, and the umpire had actually waved it wide, then who decided that it was a point? Did the scoreboard operator just key in the point themselves? Do RTE just take their lead from the stadium scoreboard? Or is there a sideline official who inputs each score which then automatically appears on the scoreboard?

All very messy, interesting to see what the official explanation is...

How does initially dismissing the issue with Kilkenny should have known the real score anyway reconcile with this latest "additional point" that Tipp were impacted too?

Problem is if a replay is granted, then Kilkenny will win.

Easiest solution is to play All Ireland Final as normal & replay the semi final at a later stage “just to see” what could have happened.

I think they realise that may have been their final.

So anyway, Cork are favourites for the all Ireland, as they were last year. We'll have to wait and see I guess.

Cork could never lose 5 finals in a row, could they?

Had a look back and unbelievably what a previous poster said is spot on, it's exactly what happened. The umpire on the Hogan Stand side does indeed put his hand up to retrieve the sliotar while the other umpire waves it wide. Somehow both the RTE scoreboard and the stadium scoreboard have registered this as a point - are they both automatically linked together? Ger Canning and Michael Duignan both continue on commentary blissfully unaware of the mistake. It definitely affected Kilkenny's approach towards the end of the match.

So the question now is who put that 'point' on the scoreboard? A person in some booth in Croke Park? Is the Croke Park stadium scoreboard automatically linked to the TV scoreboard? Does anybody know if the BBC scoreboard also registered it as a point?

Or is it a sideline official who inputs the data into the scoreboard in real time?

Bloody interesting to see how the hell it actually happened...

I think its additional points that people do have an issue with, to be honest.

Anyway, cork will win by 5, a year or 2 early for this tipp team.

Did the scoreboard impact the game, absolutely it did, KK were working the ball forward looking for a goal they didn’t need, time and again. And had ample chances to makeup the two points.
Do kk deserve the draw or a replay, no chance, We were poor, and have no doubts the better side won. And if the GAA said to replay it, we should refuse, we lost end off.

GAA are lucky though… had we got that goal at the end, what would have happened then…. Everyone thinking a draw and the ref turning around and saying Tipp lost. Now that would definitely have been an issue.

Error 1 - Croke Park scoreboard operator added a point that was waved wide.
Error 2 - James Owen should have stopped the match and got the scoreboard corrected.

Error 3 - Kilkenny management either stats man or manager should have flagged that the scoreboard was incorrect to the linesman

This scenario has often happened over the years and most recently in the Munster Final and the referee stopped the game and got the scoreboard corrected.