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If you added Galway to the Munster Championship you would have two totally lobsided provincial championships. Munster is already a fair bit stronger than Leinster in the amount of top counties taking part.
PeggyShippen (Limerick) - Posts: 300 - 16/05/2018 15:06:50 2101402 Link 0 |
really?i think wexford/kilkenny/galway/dublin would disagree,and i think only tipp are ahead of wexford/dublin in munster.i think any other team would be a 50/50 game. i think kk/galway would beat anything in munster. perfect10 (Wexford) - Posts: 3929 - 16/05/2018 16:29:34 2101431 Link 0 |
Munster is already a fair bit stronger than Leinster in the amount of top counties taking part. Cockney_Cat (UK) - Posts: 2460 - 16/05/2018 17:29:29 2101454 Link 1 |
I'm going on results senior and underage. Leinster havent the number of young hurlers to compete right now .They havent won an under 21 in donkeys years and don't pretend that Leinster counties are ok with that. I know it's not a total barometer but it is a barometer and please don't bother telling me what I already know about Limerick under 21s of the past. PeggyShippen (Limerick) - Posts: 300 - 16/05/2018 20:27:59 2101499 Link 0 |
Wexford beat Waterford, Cork and Clare in the league without too much effort, it took an average Limerick team all day to beat Clare. Limerick flatter to decieve every year, they did nothing at senior level after winning at u21 in the early 2000s and the same will happen again. Really hope Wexford go all the way as Linerick have their usual summer breakdown.
Jedobi (Wexford) - Posts: 138 - 17/05/2018 05:12:32 2101574 Link 0 |
Play the ball and not the man. I think Wexford have some fantastic hurlers and big physical backs. It's the forwards that let you down. Wexford havent won Leinster in a long long time. Limerick won one Munster in 14 and played in an All Ireland semi quiet recently. This is a new team. We all know Davy focuses on the first half of every season to take pressure off himself and that's what finally got him the sack in Clare. Wexford will soon realise that league performances are a totally different 'kettle of fish'. Maybe I'm completely wrong and Davy has managed to get Wexford up another level. Fair play if that's the case. PeggyShippen (Limerick) - Posts: 300 - 17/05/2018 09:45:41 2101606 Link 0 |
yeah well you need to stop thinking about u21/underage like it is some gold mine for talent. it is not. it is a huge step up to senior so you need to forget about u21's. the most 1 u21 team will produce is 4-5 hurlers at the max.it not a total barometer,it is no barometer whatsoever. if it was a barometer,limerick/clare would have about 3-4 all irelands each in the last 15 years. perfect10 (Wexford) - Posts: 3929 - 17/05/2018 11:50:46 2101662 Link 0 |
galway are definitely up there?they sure are,they are the all-ireland champions so they are looking down at the rest of us.you make out that they are up there begrudgingly? perfect10 (Wexford) - Posts: 3929 - 17/05/2018 11:52:11 2101663 Link 1 |
well done,and limerick have no all-ireland senior in how long? oh god,the calculator has showed 2018-1973 = 45 years? perfect10 (Wexford) - Posts: 3929 - 17/05/2018 11:54:41 2101665 Link 0 |
Galway are up there and Kilkenny are improving.....interesting! Galway are All-Ireland champions and Kilkenny are league champions, neither need any introduction in my view. Pinkie (Wexford) - Posts: 4100 - 17/05/2018 12:59:00 2101690 Link 0 |
I wouldn't say the Munster counties are 'vastly' superior just superior than Wexford, Dublin and Offaly. Munster championship is the bigtime. It's a stand alone competition that rivals the All Ireland. When people think of Ireland. They think of Kilarney, The Quiet Man, U2 and the Munster Hurling final. The GAA recognise this by not having any county relegated from the Munster Championship. PeggyShippen (Limerick) - Posts: 300 - 17/05/2018 21:39:00 2101813 Link 0 |
if munster hurling is the big time,why dont they win all-irelands?i have never met a tourist,in many years living abroad,who mentioned the munster hurling final.they might have heard of hurling. perfect10 (Wexford) - Posts: 3929 - 18/05/2018 09:14:20 2101879 Link 0 |
I've gone for KK by 11+ in the prediction competition but there's a big performace in Offaly yet. The worry is KK will probably have Fogarty, Fennelly and Murphy starting or porbably 2 of them anyway. I gave Dublin a great chance last weekend but I dont see them beating Wexford this weekend. I'd be very surprised if they did. PS...lads lets enjoy the cship and not be going on about this munster leinster thing every year tiobraid (Tipperary) - Posts: 4119 - 18/05/2018 10:36:14 2101898 Link 0 |
+1 tiobraid. Good luck to all teams taking their championship bow, may the best teams pick up silver in both provinces and the big dog as the last man standing! Pinkie (Wexford) - Posts: 4100 - 18/05/2018 14:48:26 2101984 Link 0 |
Agreed. Let's enjoy all the games. Up Wexford PeggyShippen (Limerick) - Posts: 300 - 18/05/2018 15:59:19 2101992 Link 0 |
I wouldn't say the Munster counties are 'vastly' superior just superior than Wexford, Dublin and Offaly. Munster championship is the bigtime. It's a stand alone competition that rivals the All Ireland. When people think of Ireland. They think of Kilarney, The Quiet Man, U2 and the Munster Hurling final. Cockney_Cat (UK) - Posts: 2460 - 18/05/2018 17:20:56 2102005 Link 0 |
The Quiet Man is in colour, duh.
ballydalane (Kilkenny) - Posts: 1246 - 19/05/2018 06:09:15 2102079 Link 0 |
I looked at a replay of the incident again, there wasn't any foul, much less "blatant".
ballydalane (Kilkenny) - Posts: 1246 - 19/05/2018 06:27:57 2102080 Link 0 |
But surely players being able to score frees from 80/90 yards is the best deterrent there is against cynical fouling in the opposition half of the field. Football had to introduce the black card to combat cynical fouling in the opposition half which was rampant, as teams were fouling in order to slow down opposition counterattacks and get numbers back in defence. Hurling didn't need to introduce the black card as the punishment for fouling, even well inside the opponent's half of the field, was on the scoreboard.
ballydalane (Kilkenny) - Posts: 1246 - 19/05/2018 06:46:36 2102082 Link 0 |
Agree completelly and thats porbably why theres less cynical fouling in hurling compared to football. But its unfair that technical fouls in that part of the field are punished by a scorable free imo.
ZUL10 (Clare) - Posts: 693 - 19/05/2018 11:53:18 2102110 Link 0 |