Replying To Fairplayalways:  "I have been consistent in raising the Tommy Walsh issue well before last Sundays incident...many hurls might have been flying in the incident with Brian Gavin but go and look at the video and Tommy Walshes makes a fair chopping motion and whether you like it or not he HIT the referee!!....Brian Gavin was a soft man not to card him for it, and the GAA were as bad not to pull him up on retrospectively...as you say its one thing getting worked up and all that but you have to keep a lid on it...Davy Fitz at worst was going into talk to the referee, not assault him, so I cannot see what the big deal is, compared to Tommy Walsh hitting the referee either intentionally or not, he swung his hurl and hit the referee...one player pulling the helmet off another player is another thing, and some of Kilkennys 4 in row team had a few butts of hurls into under the chin and a few face guards tugged at while the ball was dropping and were not copped until that night in the Sunday game, Eddie Brennan tackle on Seamus Hickey was disgraceful too..but now Ime going down the road you went above....lets keep it to the referee and Manager and player incident, if Davy Fitz gets 8 weeks for going in on the field, fair enough, Tommy Walsh should have got 8 months for hittting the referee...if he had been acting agressively he wouldnt have hit the referee..I am sorry but I dont think we will aggree on this one...lets hope Wexford can carry their form into the Leinster championship and make it competitive...we are all hurling folk on here etc..."

Replying To TheHermit:  "Ouch, well someone is grumpy this morning aren't day! 'Lucky' goals is it? Just as well you don't usually talk about football: better to keep quite and be thought of as a fool than open the mouth and remove all doubt ;) Considering Kerry are as successful as Kilkenny in their code and yet can still have a hurling team competing in Division 1b, I'd think you could learn a thing or two from us."

Replying To seadog54:  "Canning is a class act, how good would he be if he had Cody as manager. Unfair to single out an individual player for undeserved criticism"

Replying To therealtmo:  "Waterford will be delighted with Thurles, they will bring a massive crowd to Thurles as Junior said its a home game for them. I think they might have blown their chance I know Tipp did in the 14 final I said it coming out the gate you don't beat KK in replays but then again is this a different KK to a few years ago, they don't have that serious bench anymore to Spring a player from nowhere"

Replying To Laois76:  "The one thing that always comes into my head when Davy gets wound up is this man is going to get a heart attack. And i mean that in all seriousness given some of his health problems. Look any of us could kick the bucket at any time but i wouldn't like to wake up to hearing bad news about Davy. It can't be good for him. A lot of managers and players can fake being wound up a little but he really loses it.."

Replying To Killarney.87:  "Yeah, they are queuing up to bury Davy. Kirwan was woeful as usual. Callanan's thumb was broken after a wild challenge and no yellow card. He booked players for nothing. If Forde is suspended for the final we'll be without two players because of inept refereeing. Thankfully for us Breen and Bubbles will happily step in."

Replying To SaffronDon:  "why would you 'usually'not talk about football when you clearly watch it then? i despare at this high handed 'members only' hurling talk. is there some sort of shame in watching both sports?"

Replying To CroiGorm:  "No clique here, especially between Dublin and Kerry posters. I had an issue with your response to Hermit as it was uncalled for. He gave a very balanced response to the OP with a number of valid points and you got defensive throwing last week's result at him, when it had nothing to do with the topic or his comment and wasn't warranted. If you didn't like what he said respond to his points with your differing opinion instead of having a dig about Kerry's loss last week."

Replying To TheHermit:  "Ah I do think people realise that this is a serious achievement for the Cats. But I suppose fatigue has set in with them winning so much so it's not being shouted from the rooftops for that reason. I also sense a part of it might be that the standards have dropped in inter-county hurling over the past 3-4 years. I don't think this Kilkenny side is nearly as good as the 4 in a row team and yet they are still dominating. It points to their main rivals having gone a few steps backwards in the last while."