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National Hurling League 2020

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  • #122
    TheRiverman
    Registered Users Posts: 6,041 ✭✭✭TheRiverman


    Why were Cork wearing black ?


  • #123
    ProudDUB
    Registered Users Posts: 11,569 ✭✭✭✭ProudDUB


    Commemorative, remembering 1920.


  • #124
    letowski
    Registered Users Posts: 3,086 ✭✭✭letowski


    Cian Lynch..

    https://twitter.com/JeromeSport/status/1231646536234340352


  • #125
    Mantis Toboggan
    Registered Users Posts: 17,652 ✭✭✭✭Mantis Toboggan


    Some awful refereeing this weekend. Ruining alot of the games.

    Free Palestine 🇵🇸



  • #126
    Rasputin11
    Registered Users Posts: 1,350 ✭✭✭Rasputin11


    TheMilkyPirate wrote: »
    So Allianz league Sunday aren't covering the Wexford Dublin game. A complete cop out to avoid talking about johnny murphys awful display.

    On after the break.


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  • #127
    letowski
    Registered Users Posts: 3,086 ✭✭✭letowski


    There is more sand on the field that grass in Portloaise.


  • #128
    Chalk McHugh
    Registered Users Posts: 3,534 ✭✭✭Chalk McHugh


    Another Westmeath hurler sent off today v Tipp. That's a red card v Galway, Cork and Tipp. I don't think discipline is their strong point.


  • #129
    TheRiverman
    Registered Users Posts: 6,041 ✭✭✭TheRiverman


    Anthony Daly talking so much sense.


  • #130
    TheRiverman
    Registered Users Posts: 6,041 ✭✭✭TheRiverman


    I don't always agree with Derek McGrath,but both himself and Anthony Daly are spot on tonight.


  • #131
    dastardly00
    Registered Users Posts: 13,300 ✭✭✭✭dastardly00


    TheRiverman wrote: »
    I don't always agree with Derek McGrath,but both himself and Anthony Daly are spot on tonight.

    Synopsis of what they said?


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  • #132
    Davys Fits
    Registered Users Posts: 504 ✭✭✭Davys Fits


    Daly and McGrath had some valid points but some of the tackling in particular is getting out of hand. How can you justify a player having his hand or hurl pulled while trying to take a shot. This kind of foul was blown several times in Croker last night. Its no harm to let players know that we have rules that need to be implemented. I would much rather this happen in February, then 'let if flow' in May.


  • #133
    Grats
    Registered Users Posts: 2,682 ✭✭✭Grats


    Refs can't win. Kingston complaining about so many frees and also complaining about not getting enough. If teams are being sent out to foul persistently what are refs meant to do? They can hardly start picking and choosing one free over another just to keep the count down. Perhaps managers/coaches might reflect on how they prepare their players.


  • #134
    Chalk McHugh
    Registered Users Posts: 3,534 ✭✭✭Chalk McHugh


    Grats wrote: »
    Refs can't win. Kingston complaining about so many frees and also complaining about not getting enough. If teams are being sent out to foul persistently what are refs meant to do? They can hardly start picking and choosing one free over another just to keep the count down. Perhaps managers/coaches might reflect on how they prepare their players.

    Yea i go along with this. I rarely if ever criticise referees' as they do a thankless job and their carrying out directives from above a lot of the time. Thrre is incessant niggling and fouling going on a lot of the time. Pulling, grabbing, rucks, it must be a nightmare to officiate. Of course they sometimes make bad decisions but more often than not they get it right. Player indiscipline is the big problem.


  • #135
    tipp_tipp_tipp
    Closed Accounts Posts: 407 ✭✭tipp_tipp_tipp


    Interesting interview with Brian Gavin in light of the comments of the refereeing over the weekend

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ug6A0uZgL2w


  • #136
    Dyr
    Registered Users Posts: 23,246 ✭✭✭✭Dyr


    tipp_tipp_tipp wrote: »
    Interesting interview with Brian Gavin in light of the comments of the refereeing over the weekend

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ug6A0uZgL2w

    Yer man Shane Stapletons channel is well worth subscribing too, much better analysis than the spoofers on RTE


  • #137
    ProudDUB
    Registered Users Posts: 11,569 ✭✭✭✭ProudDUB


    It really is excellent. Puts the "I suppose, ahshurelookit Des, I suppose...." spoofers on TSG to shame.


  • #138
    Chalk McHugh
    Registered Users Posts: 3,534 ✭✭✭Chalk McHugh


    Bambi wrote: »
    Yer man Shane Stapletons channel is well worth subscribing too, much better analysis than the spoofers on RTE

    Fantastic addition to GAA coverage.


  • #139
    big_drive
    Registered Users Posts: 3,106 ✭✭✭big_drive


    There’s great content, always quality guests on it


  • #140
    Dyr
    Registered Users Posts: 23,246 ✭✭✭✭Dyr


    ProudDUB wrote: »
    It really is excellent. Puts the "I suppose, ahshurelookit Des, I suppose...." spoofers on TSG to shame.


    https://www.todayfm.com/podcasts/today-fm/gift-every-sunday-game


  • #141
    Mantis Toboggan
    Registered Users Posts: 17,652 ✭✭✭✭Mantis Toboggan


    Would agree that Shane Stapleton's stuff is excellent.

    Free Palestine 🇵🇸



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  • #142
    ProudDUB
    Registered Users Posts: 11,569 ✭✭✭✭ProudDUB


    Bambi wrote: »
    https://www.todayfm.com/podcasts/today-fm/gift-every-sunday-game

    Ha !

    Brilliant. Can't believe I've never heard that before & it's nearly 4 years old.

    Really wish TSG producers would make a conscious effort to cut out all this "lookit, I suppose" crap from pundits. You either speak in proper sentences (which they are all well capable of doing) or you get your marching orders. There should be some level of standards on the national broadcaster for goodness sake.


  • #143
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 7,712 ✭✭✭[Deleted User]


    All RTÉ wasn’t is bland. And a token woman.


  • #144
    PTH2009
    Registered Users Posts: 37,715 ✭✭✭✭PTH2009


    Defeats for Galway and Tipp will knock both out and make there clash the following weekend a dead rubber. Wins for both/either one this weekend will put them right back into it. Limerick will no doubt get the win over Westmeath to put them through and a Waterford win/draw will 100% qualify for the knockout stages . Cork play there last game this weekend needing a win.

    **** off storm jorge ha

    https://www.rte.ie/news/2020/0227/1117923-weather-warning/


  • #145
    Mantis Toboggan
    Registered Users Posts: 17,652 ✭✭✭✭Mantis Toboggan


    Another weekend another storm, wonder how many games will be called off again. Thankfully Sunday seems much better than Saturday.

    Free Palestine 🇵🇸



  • #146
    PTH2009
    Registered Users Posts: 37,715 ✭✭✭✭PTH2009


    Mantis Toboggan wrote: »
    Another weekend another storm, wonder how many games will be called off again. Thankfully Sunday seems much better than Saturday.

    All the glorious weather April's 'club month' will have


  • #147
    Chalk McHugh
    Registered Users Posts: 3,534 ✭✭✭Chalk McHugh


    Two big games on Sunday. Tipp v Waterford should be a belter. The two Tipp Liams looking to lay down an early marker before their opening Munster championship game in a few months. Waterford motoring nicely. Tipp will want to win a game against a big gun after two narrow losses to Cork and Limerick. At home in Thurles i fancy a Tipp win.

    Galway v Cork is another juicy game. Galway were well beaten by Limerick and missed a few late chances to rescue a draw last week in Waterford so Shane O Neill will realky want a big win in front of a hungry home crowd. Cork were woeful in first half v Limerick last week but improved for the majority of second half before falling away again near the end. They will be eager to stave off a third defeat also so quite a bit on the line. I feel Galway will edge this one.

    Both games on TG4 so nice Sunday in front of the box.


  • #148
    PTH2009
    Registered Users Posts: 37,715 ✭✭✭✭PTH2009


    Its the waiting that would kill ya ie about match postponements with this storm and coronavirus


  • #149
    corny
    Registered Users Posts: 7,752 ✭✭✭corny


    ReginaldSmythV wrote: »
    All RTÉ wasn’t is bland. And a token woman.

    A token woman? They won't be happy until everyone in the organisation is female.


  • #150
    PTH2009
    Registered Users Posts: 37,715 ✭✭✭✭PTH2009


    Could we see mid week games if some are called off this week???


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  • #151
    puzl
    Registered Users Posts: 578 ✭✭✭puzl


    Winds should have flushed out by Sunday but pitches will be boggy after the deluge. I expect cork Vs Galway go be postponed and possibly another couple, depending on how Jorge goes in the end, and how rainfall follows behind it.


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