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

Tipp were the better side for me. And in fairness Tipp and Cork through league and championship have been the top 2 teams in 2025.

On the scoreboard issue. Iv noticed RTE have been very quick to add the score when a point goes over this year as a whole. At times I'd be watching waiting for the score to tick up a point only to realise they'd already added it. Before it'd only be after the white flag was waved that the score was added. They need to cop on and go back to waiting for the umpire to award the score.

It was clear no flag was waved, Owens didn't mark the score. Murphy tried to take a quick puckout which he's allowed to after a wide but was stopped due to a substitution. So Murphy knew it was wide, Noel McGrath knew it was wide too. He said as much after the game. Even I knew it was a wide watching and I knew the scoreboard was wrong watching, my family talked about it watching live and we waited for them to correct the score they just never did.

The ref probably looked up at the score board at the end of the game and texted that in to whatever system they have before checking his note book, then realising the scoreboard was wrong, reissued the correct score based on his notebook. The ref doesnt control the scoreboard or what RTE show on screen. But I think he took what was up as given when inputting the score initially instead of checking his notes. No conspiracy or cover up.

It's a lesson for Kilkenny. Ask the ref, never trust the scoreboard. That's a rule every club player takes.

I wouldn't be sure they'd have drawn the game so easily either. From the red to the end Tipp out scored them 1-3 to 0-4. If Kilkenny could have score 2 it'd just as possible tipp could have score 1 more themselves.

It could be a great final if tipp can get to half time close or leading. Cork look to be playing with real freedom though. The kind of freedom that comes when you're just in the zone and everything is working. Rightfully favourites.

For Kilkenny. I don't know where they go from here. All the can do is beat who is in front of them in Leinster and try their best in a semi final. But they really need a competitive Leinster.

Yeah I was in the upper Canal for the Dublin-Tyrone 2018 final, and you really have a panoramic view of everything. McCaffrey's runs off the ball that day was a sight to behold and you wouldn't notice it on the telly.

Done and dusted, a complete media hype. We were in the davin stand and everyone around us knew the scoreboard was wrong.

Waiting on my club allocation to see do I get one but even though we're a major club I'm not holding out hope. I was at every match bar the Tipp RR game so I'm doubly regretting not snagging a season ticket a few years ago!

My train is Sat night so I'll hang around the Gresham etc the night before but I fear the days of getting one up there are long gone since they did away with real paper tickets.

I've gone before without a ticket and got one but this time they'll be very scarce. There will be a few thousand young wans there purely for the Instagram pics!

Much easier playing Kilkenny in final to get tickets.

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Cork gone 2/5 with paddy power. They will pulling up based on this. Bookies are not wrong often so ominous for us in Tipp.

A lot of money on Cork from earlier in the year. The bookies obviously want money going on Tipp to even it out. That's how they operate. The odds don't just reflect this one off game.

Yeah the bookies are usually spot on. I think they had Limerick as favourites to win the all Ireland as few weeks back. They certainly had Limerick as roaring favourites to beat Dublin! Kilkenny were favourites to beat Tipp last Sunday! The only bet, apart from what I put on Tipp at 14-1 way back, I'm putting on is one on Cork to lose their 5th successive all Ireland.

The only thing I would say is that hurling is a frantic sport, and even more so in an all Ireland semi final in a close game with minutes to go. As a player you don't have time to be thinking about anything other than the next phase of play and you should be able to rely on the scoreboard being correct, because even if you think it's wrong, you don't really have time to question it.

There should be an apology to both teams because it could easily have been Tipp on the bad end of it.

In fairness I think it was the chairman of the Kilkenny supporters who was on newstalk looking for tipp to offer a replay.

There were 7 races in Tramore yesterday, NONE of the bookies favourites won.