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On gaa.ie it seems like you can buy tickets for all the other games bar Kilkenny v Limerick now, this message flashes up about the game being available on June 30th. Is that just something you see when the site experiences high demand? slayer (Limerick) - Posts: 6480 - 26/06/2017 16:20:16 2005861 Link 0 |
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What a bore! Three of the games will be completely one-sided. The Limerick- Kilkenny game will follow the usual script between these two teams: Limerick will fight hard and make Kilkenny work for it but in the end Kilkenny will win by about 5 points without ever looking in any serious trouble of losing. Hopefully Kilkenny and Tipp meet in the next round and knock lumps out of each other. Gaillimh_Abu (Galway) - Posts: 996 - 26/06/2017 16:37:34 2005870 Link 0 |
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Ye beat no one yet so at some stage ye will meet one of us!!!! Hopefully ye will meet both of us and earn that all Ireland!! WildPundit (Tipperary) - Posts: 1709 - 26/06/2017 17:23:02 2005910 Link 0 |
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A third bowl was most definitely used. This was explained in the radio program: RTE Radio Player link Explanation is between 01:35 - 02:06 The entire draw of course follows that and it's clear that a canister is taken from each of the Leinster and Munster bowls, and thy're mixed in the third bowl. Tacaí Liatroma (Leitrim) - Posts: 1040 - 26/06/2017 17:59:14 2005930 Link 0 |
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With the help of God we will beat Wexford on Sunday will we have some one beaten then as in a good team.
bud14 (Galway) - Posts: 296 - 26/06/2017 18:17:44 2005935 Link 0 |
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I take your point , but you got to agree that it's blatantly lobsided as hell?
Bon (Kildare) - Posts: 1913 - 26/06/2017 19:13:05 2005963 Link 0 |
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But the big guns have been kept apart...?
Tacaí Liatroma (Leitrim) - Posts: 1040 - 26/06/2017 19:56:24 2005983 Link 0 |
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The only thing that makes me think this draw wasn't 'hand-picked' was that Kilkenny got Limerick instead of Laois. As for the home advantage draw how much can you really mix two balls in a pot anyway without still knowing what each one is? Seems a little contrived. M Lyster (Antrim) - Posts: 463 - 26/06/2017 21:41:24 2006043 Link 0 |
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I thought that the quarter final losers (Tipp, Laois, Dublin, Westmeath) should have started at an earlier stage of the qualifiers than the semi final losers (Limerick, Waterford, Offaly, Kilkenny). I think they did it that way a few years ago. Funnily enough, the way it worked out this morning, the quarter final losers meet each other and the semi final losers meet each other. How eerie. HurlingSnob (Dublin) - Posts: 220 - 26/06/2017 22:04:43 2006060 Link 0 |
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Sounds about right. If it was in the Gaelic Grounds, Limerick would have had a better chance but think this will be too much for them. They have maybe a 33% chance but no more.
county man (Limerick) - Posts: 1102 - 26/06/2017 22:12:22 2006066 Link 0 |
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Why is it necessary to have two groups. All these teams have lost a game and having to play each other again may be the price you pay for that.
Canuck (Waterford) - Posts: 2665 - 26/06/2017 22:16:32 2006069 Link 0 |
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But Limerick, Waterford, and Kilkenny never played a quarter-final. Why should they get preferential treatment?
Cockney_Cat (UK) - Posts: 2478 - 26/06/2017 22:45:39 2006085 Link 0 |
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Well it does apply in football
Oldtourman (Limerick) - Posts: 4331 - 26/06/2017 23:06:18 2006093 Link 0 |
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Supposing Waterford beat Cork. Cork would be at the same stage as Tipperary, having already beaten them in championship. Likewise if Kilkenny had beaten Wexford or Offaly had beaten Galway, then Galway and Wexford would have been at the same stage as teams they beat (Dublin and Laois). It just happened that the results went the way they did that you don't notice any unfairness.
HurlingSnob (Dublin) - Posts: 220 - 26/06/2017 23:51:18 2006110 Link 0 |
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dont anyone dare tell me that draw was not fixed! keeping all the big teams involved for as long as the gaa can, money rules the gaa, no money to be made out of tipp or kilkenny out of it in june Stmunnsriver (Wexford) - Posts: 2845 - 28/06/2017 15:01:36 2006921 Link 0 |