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

Marty is a terrible commentator but he's grand doing interviews like last night, because he understands that the idea in the winners hotel is to make everyone feel relaxed and have the craic.

Joanne on the other hand is so bad at interviewing, always trying to find some way of irritating the person she's asking questions like she's trying to catch them out or trick them into saying something controversial, instead of just making them feel comfortable so they'll loosen up and share a bit of insight. it's like she thinks she's catching the manager or players or analysts out all the time, I always find myself cringing when she's doing an interview. Makes me miss Michael Lester.

Just a few thoughts on yesterdays game

Cork seemed totally surprised by the sweeper and played into o mearas hands by going long instead of trying to play it through the lines.

Wilie Connors had a super game. And I had reservations would he be good enough. Ronan Maher was inspirational and led like a true captain, probably surpassed his brother now as a great tipperary hurler. But I'd have mccarthy as motm. 1-13 in an all Ireland final is off the charts for a 19 year old.

The ref was hardly noticed in the game but darragh mccarthy might light heartedly say to John mcgrath over a pint, that I got sent off in the semi final while you commited similar fouls but got away with them

Have Cork won a championship game under Ryan when theyv had a man sent off? I dont think they have. And just because Eoin Downey was Corks Fullback shouldnt save him from the hook when clearly a liability- any1 I spoke to at ht yesterday said he needed to go.

On the topics of reds- Off the top of my head Cork had 3 red cards this year.

Cormac O Brien in the league vs Clare(appalling decision by the ref which was overturned)

Shane Barrett vs Clare (questionable if it was anything other than a coming together)

Eoin Downey yesterday. Wrong sided by McGrath but the penalty/card were both totally bought by the ref.

3 questionable reds in 3 seperate game. All given out by Liam Gordon!

OK but Limerick got plenty of dustings as well over the years before 2018.

+1 to all of this.

First off, fair play to Tipp, they went out yesterday and dominated the game. Despite both teams looking very cagey, they were winning the 50:50s from early on and finding space all over the park. The flicks and breaking ball that Cork hoovered up in earlier games didn't come and Cork looked tired and out of ideas early on. Congrats on the win, well deserved.

I'm from Cork, was there in the Nally stand in 99 to see Mark Landers lift Liam and was there yesterday to see the capitulation. I genuinely didn't see any cockiness or overconfidence in any of my friends, family or acquaintences. If anything there was the constant memory of being 8 points up against Clare last year and losing it at the death.

There's gurriers and eejits in both sets of fans at every match and in the build up to every match. Usually young lads after too many shandys in the minibus to the match or the red faced goons who are one burger away from a fat coffin and who can only manage to express themselves by shouting abuse at all around them during the 70 minutes between whistles.

And then there's the 82,000 other fans who try not to step on each other to get their seats, wish each other best of luck, chat about the game and congratulate / comiserate afterwards like I did in 2013 with a Clare man sitting beside me for both final & replay and a Toomevara woman (who claimed to have babysat Darragh McCarthy!) yesterday.

It's incredibly lazy and boring to lump everyone in the same bucket based on a few outliers and frankly betrays a pretty telling ignorance of what the majority of GAA fans are actually like on the day.

Anyway, congrats again to Tipp and we'll go to the well again next year.

Joanne asked Gavin once why he had such a funny expression and Fenton nearly fell off the stage. Constant stupid questions and the rest of the time she's just being argumentative. She targeted Brolly from Day 1.

The 07 semi final v Waterford was one of the most enjoyable matches I was ever at.

Waterford strong favourites after a 9 point win in the Munster final. Our full forward line blew them away with 5 goals. O Shaughnessy was at the peak of his powers and the mighty Donie Ryan with an absolute screamer.

Gave the final a good rattle and definitely werent hammered, but Kilkenny had us at arms length for most of it.

Jamie Wall and Liam Rushe on Second Captains are the best analysts of the game IMHO. They put a small bit of clarity on it for me. Tipps 7th defender an age old tactic threw Cork. Wall was disgusted with Cork in the first half and how they stupidly persisted with trying to hit the inside 3. He said they should only have kept 2 inside and an extra man should have come to the middle third to counteract Tipp. Rushe said that Cork should have been galloping forward from their own backline with the spare man they had there, they didn't do this but he said Tipp deserve credit here because, they worked hard on potential Cork ball carriers in this area. Tipps plan in the second half would have been to stay as is and go for broke with 15 to go, it turned out they didn't have to change anything because of the sending off. Both pinpointed Corks awful skills meltdown in the second half, hand passing, shooting, picking off the ground, error after error. Wall also was fearful of the Downey McGrath matchup in the week leading up to the game and it turned out that he was right to be fearful, McGrath was just two wily for the youthful Cork defender.

My own take is that Cork need that Full forward line to cut loose to give confidence and oxygen to the team, they were stifled and Cork never got lift off and crashed and burned spectacularly in the second half.

Cork could do worse than get Wall in as a coach, he is working with a club in Tipp this year.

God help club hurling now, the sweeper was dead it will come back with a vengeance now after last Sunday.

I hope so. I love seeing the bandwagons and the razzmataz it brings. Dublin footballers from about 02-09, Mayo from 2012-23, Limerick kiely era and cork hurlers the last few years.

I think the fact the Munster hurling is so tight and there's 4 matches to be played will help keep the supporters onside. 65k from cork up to Dublin this year for the semi was a hell of a crowd.

Shock at how unprepared Cork were for any sort of curve ball and how unable to adapt is the common theme with anyone I listened to.

Can't remember which podcast (Skehill maybe)) but they mentioned how all those Cork players would have faced sweepers and should have made calls to change things up.

Richie Hogan was of the opinion that Tipps tactic didn't work in the first half because they were six down, I thought that was a strange take. I find Wall sharp and clear in his analysis.

Will he get the extension?!