Killarney.87
Getting more and more of a feeling Tipp could do it.
Really looking forward to it now. Will be some first 20mins. If Tipp are still there it will go to the wire again.
Seamus Callanan must start I feel. Sheedy should have stuck with him after the Cork game as I think he is a confidence player. Starting would be the boost he needs??
What do ye think. I'm no expect on Tipp obviously.

Any sign of one-in-row T-Shirts yet lads!
I hear that Kerry lad has pulled the 5-in-a-row T-Shirts down from the attic...;)
Seamus "Darby" Callinan ...I can see it now!!!

Tipp U21H team to play Antrim 4pm Sat 21 Sept
Tipperary manager Tommy Dunne has kept faith with the team that ousted Clare in the Munster final for Saturday's Bord Gais Energy All-Ireland U21HC semi-final against Antrim at Tullamore.

The team includes a host of senior panellists, including team captain Padraic Maher, Brendan Maher, Noel McGrath, Patrick Maher and Barry O'Meara.

Tipperary (U21HC v Antrim): J Logue; K O'Gorman, J Coghlan, M Cahill; J Barry, Padraic Maher (Captain), B Maher; S Hennessy, N McGrath, S Carey, Patrick Maher, B O'Meara; M Heffernan, P Murphy, J O'Dwyer.

Best of luck in both All-Irelands Tipp. Behind you all the way.

1988 who would you drop if you think Seamus should start? Personally I dont think he deserves to start. He has lost totally lost form.

Best of luck to Tipp U21H AGAINST ANTRIM 4PM I hope to see it on GT

Seamie won't start he is not playing well enough but he could be a game winner off the bench. Come on u-21s, best of luck today

good luck to the u21s heading off soon !!:)

Ye won't like this!! Get yer lads to chew on it th emorning of the AI perhaps!

By Tommy Conlon
Sunday August 22 2010

Just wondering in passing if down in Tipperary they still consider it the Home of Hurling -- or have they decided to do the decent thing and hand the title over to Kilkenny?

The Cats, after all, sit proudly atop the roll of honour for senior All-Ireland championships with 32, compared to Tipp's piffling 25. They lead the way in minor and under 21 All-Irelands too. It's a clean sweep, and it's not going to change any time soon: they are set to dominate the game for the rest of the century at least. In fact, they have built an empire that will last a thousand years.

So we would advise Tipp to get out while they're still -- not ahead, obviously, but just a bit behind. In another 20 years they will have disappeared into Kilkenny's rear view mirror and won't be seen for dust.

It could start to get embarrassing -- better to bite the bullet and hand over the road signs now. There could be a nice ceremony involving mayors and assorted dignitaries, with a Kilkenny spray painter on hand to cover the old blue-and-yellow livery with a fresh coat of black and amber.

Eddie Keher and DJ Carey would be ready with a sledgehammer each to plant the sign, perhaps at a prominent roundabout on the road into Kilkenny city. Yes, it might be a painful experience for the Tipp citizenry, seeing every blow of the sledgehammer not so much as driving a stake into the ground, but through the heart.

And it wouldn't be the end of the world -- they'd still have the coursing, for example. And Bulmers for the large bottles too. Life would go on. And into every life a little humility, like rain, must fall.

But not too much, in the case of Tipperary, for it has been a rich source of entertainment over the years to see their supporters engage in bragging rights, not just after the winning of big games, but before them too, when a ball has yet to be pucked. Especially before them, when there is the prospect of a good kick up the arse looming; which, if it materialises, is always good for a bit of comedy. Ah yes, the long faces on the long road back to the home of hurling.

But still, the crack and the colour is good when the Tipp crowd is around. You wouldn't want to see them turn into Kilkenny, where emotions either in victory or defeat seem to run the entire gamut from A to B. And that's just the players.

It's strange how one county revels in hubris while another, a neighbouring county with whom it shares a border, has turned modesty into an art form. The more modest one, of course, being the more successful.

But for all that, it could be said that Cody has made an important contribution, not just to hurling, but to Irish society, if people were prepared to listen and learn. For he represents

ideals which were marginalised and neglected during the gold rush that was the era of the Celtic Tiger. The same words keep cropping up when he speaks, over and over: "honesty", "work" and "genuineness".

His iron insistence on these qualities in his players, every time they train, every time they play, has produced a team that embodies these principles. Against the tidal wave of bankers, developers, politicians, spin doctors and dumb celebrities, those values have shone like a lighthouse.

When a team has won so much, it is natural, almost inevitable, that there will be a deviation, a slippage from the standard. Even if they were the most grounded players in the world, the sheer glut of success alone should diminish the appetite for the hard slog that comes with doing it all again.

And yet this Kilkenny team has done it again, and again and again. If the place isn't the home of hurling, it's surely the heart of it.

Just wondering in passing if down in Tipperary they still consider it the Home of Hurling

I it is in reference to the gaa being founded in thurles and when people and many people would put semple stadium as the spititual home of hurling.... ask yourself when the majority of people think of a ground that defines the spiritual home and atmostphere of hurling semple stadium would be it well at least for munster men anyway also I'm not sure when that sign was erected first maybe it could have been when tipp lead the role of honor... many a jurno has taken a pop at this sign over the years its just cannon fodder for them when they have little else to write about and unable to come up with opinions of their own.

1988:
i saw that article today and safe to say that lad doesn't like tipp why is he coming out with it just now ...idiot reason tipp was named home of hurling was that Gaa was
founded there nothing to do with titles he should get his facts straight!

Ya I read that alright ah sure now just another one that dislikes us, ah sure leave him off I think Hag is right about him not being able to come up with any material of substance so he reverts to this drivel.

we should give a copy of this article to liam sheedy and the team give them all the motivation they need

I believe tickets were to be distributed to clubs on Tue 24th ready for general distribution fans on Thur 26th but I hear now that has not happened

Ignore all de talk about this player being injured and that player being injured. Henry Shefflin trained last night, got involved in a tackle that caused Brian Hogan to get a 'suspected broken finger'. Its all mind games. We just assume that the Cats first team will be on de field like hares come the 5th. All this talk suits de cats and sets them up for de final without any talk of a 5inarow

just wondering is der tipp snr trainin 2nite n wht time?? thnx

Loyal Tipp Fan

It is some joke..Next thing they will be saying brian Cody himself can't make the match!!!
Sick of it now.. They deserve a good beaten after all this rubbish talk!!!!

I hear that Tipp are up in Kildare at the moment and may not be back for a few days
so there may not be too many training sessions in Thurles this week.

Reading on the Tipp site about Denis Byrne having played for Kk and switched to Tipp in 2003
Question. Does anyone know whare Denis was BORN
Its not an easey question.

Are ye having the memorial for Sean Treacy again this year on Talbot Street? One of our greatest patriots.

Best of luck Tipperary. Let ye fight for every ball the next day. Hurling needs a change in power.