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Replying To endgame:  "Yes you'd expect Limerick to win their quarter final. If it is a Cork v Limerick All Ireland Final, which is still very possible, yesterday's result might benefit Limerick because it's very hard to beat the same team three times in the championship which is what Limerick would have had to do if they won yesterday ."
Isn't that the same for Cork?

foreveryoung (USA) - Posts: 2295 - 08/06/2025 16:30:37    2615780

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Replying To Viking66:  "Are you wanting less games then?"
No.

skillet (Limerick) - Posts: 1111 - 08/06/2025 16:53:15    2615787

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Replying To kerry4sam25:  "All-Irelandsemi finals

Cork v Tipp
Kilkee v Limerick"
Watching what I'm watching right now a football club from West Clare would score more ok.

Viking66 (Wexford) - Posts: 16183 - 08/06/2025 16:54:25    2615789

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Replying To skillet:  "No."
Well stop whinging then

Viking66 (Wexford) - Posts: 16183 - 08/06/2025 17:41:47    2615810

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Replying To foreveryoung:  "Isn't that the same for Cork?"
Cork had lost the first match so No.

endgame (Roscommon) - Posts: 2459 - 08/06/2025 18:06:02    2615822

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Replying To Viking66:  "Well stop whinging then"
Oh God help us.
It was a comment , that's all. Take exception to it if ya want.
A penalty shootout to decide a Final in hurling is a joke..

skillet (Limerick) - Posts: 1111 - 08/06/2025 18:37:25    2615834

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Still need to watch it back on tv. Limerick have a shoot on sight policy and the wind did not help our tactics. We probably needed to work the ball a little bit better at times with the conditions. The usual shots from the likes of Nash and Con just wouldn't go over for us. Cian Lynch was on on fire for the first 25 mins and we needed more scores from it. Cork looked open at times and we didn't exploit.
Didn't get the hop from our subs either we probably needed. Thought we were out on our feet at the end of normal time but we raised it again and had the better of the play in extra time. Very fine margins in the end, awful way to lose it but we'll done to Cork.

Fitzy01 (Limerick) - Posts: 444 - 08/06/2025 18:50:26    2615846

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Replying To skillet:  "Oh God help us.
It was a comment , that's all. Take exception to it if ya want.
A penalty shootout to decide a Final in hurling is a joke.."
Agree that ok. If we got rid of preliminary QFs it would leave room for final replays. But something has to go if we want an extra weekend.

Viking66 (Wexford) - Posts: 16183 - 08/06/2025 19:17:02    2615857

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Replying To Viking66:  "The intercounty season is nearly 8 months long."
The championship is 3 months long , by a country mile the main competition.
Even if your in the all ireland final it's only 7 months long if you include league . Wexford , Clare & Waterford only 5 months long .

hurler32 (Limerick) - Posts: 871 - 08/06/2025 19:43:15    2615869

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Replying To ForeverBlue2:  "Sometimes these type of decisions need to be taken out of the players hands… Season is far too condensed and replays especially in provisional finals should be reintroduced… Having penalty shootouts in finals let it be football or hurling is just not right.."
Good man Forever Blue, as I've said ad nauseum, the structure of the season is pretty much totally in the players hands, the players campaigned for the condensed season and they inevitably got it, the current President suggested a minor extension, the players shut him up, fair quick, so please tell me how you would propose taking it out of the players' hands, amateur players, so you can't cut their pay?

sligo joe (Dublin) - Posts: 929 - 08/06/2025 20:31:17    2615894

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Replying To Viking66:  "Agree that ok. If we got rid of preliminary QFs it would leave room for final replays. But something has to go if we want an extra weekend."
Shorten the League. There were at least 6 games played by the counties this year. Cut it to 4 or 5 games, with no final. Afterall, they're only glorified challenge matches; with managers trying out new players and tactics.

Cockney_Cat (UK) - Posts: 2839 - 08/06/2025 20:36:24    2615895

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Replying To hurler32:  "The championship is 3 months long , by a country mile the main competition.
Even if your in the all ireland final it's only 7 months long if you include league . Wexford , Clare & Waterford only 5 months long ."
The elephant in the room here is the useless league that no one has any interest in. Start the championships earlier or club first. I did a computer program of this that allowed for an open draw All-Ireland series and the provincials. The open draw allowed for play offs and with one wild card position that virtually had less chance of dead rubbers than now. Relegation should be two years of bottom two placings. Promotion the same. Relegating Kildare back down next year does nothing to bring them to the next level. There would be a minimum of 13 days between games. If more time needed the club champions of the previous year represents. It crosses two calendar years now anyway. I hear it the league allows try outs. There was nothing wrong with when players were scouted and picked on club performances and under age where 90% of inter county players come from.

Canuck (Waterford) - Posts: 3092 - 08/06/2025 20:43:18    2615899

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Replying To hurler32:  "The championship is 3 months long , by a country mile the main competition.
Even if your in the all ireland final it's only 7 months long if you include league . Wexford , Clare & Waterford only 5 months long ."
Interxounty players started back beginning of December.

Viking66 (Wexford) - Posts: 16183 - 08/06/2025 21:18:31    2615913

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Replying To sligo joe:  "Good man Forever Blue, as I've said ad nauseum, the structure of the season is pretty much totally in the players hands, the players campaigned for the condensed season and they inevitably got it, the current President suggested a minor extension, the players shut him up, fair quick, so please tell me how you would propose taking it out of the players' hands, amateur players, so you can't cut their pay?"
Just change it back 3/4 weeks…. let them suck it up .. they will soon get used to it

ForeverBlue2 (Cavan) - Posts: 4031 - 08/06/2025 21:40:53    2615922

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Congratulations to Cork, Kildare, and Kilkenny on their title wins over the weekend; all well deserved. Many are talking about a Limerick Cork rematch. However, Kilkenny haven't gone away, and Tipp could have a say in things yet. Unless Galway can produce 70+ minutes like the 10 they did today near the end of the game, their race is run. Ditto for Dublin, unless they can really produce on the day against one of the big guns. While the Munster final was a brilliant, bruising battle, neither side could put the other way in game time. Both sides made plenty of errors and left gilt-edged scoring opportunities after them, chances that one TJ might not pass up as readily. Have Limerick lost their killer-instinct? Do Cork have theirs when it comes down to the wire?

foreveryoung (USA) - Posts: 2295 - 08/06/2025 22:01:59    2615928

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Replying To ForeverBlue2:  "Just change it back 3/4 weeks…. let them suck it up .. they will soon get used to it"
Why would they such up and get used to something they don't want and something they know and have already shown they have control of, do you take them for fools, they know they hold the aces.

sligo joe (Dublin) - Posts: 929 - 08/06/2025 22:17:13    2615929

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Just looking at some of the stats in the Examiner from Saturday evening's game - 102 shots, 42 of them missed. Five successful penalties and four futile. An astonishing 95 turnovers. The teams level on 17 occasions throughout with 24 different scorers combined. What it lacked in quality it made up for in guts and glorying. Crazy stuff

bloodandbandage (Cork) - Posts: 405 - 09/06/2025 10:15:25    2616006

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Replying To Viking66:  "Interxounty players started back beginning of December."
It's only really in the public domain for 3 months in terms of sizeable interest attendance wise or PR wise leaving 9 months solid of soccer or rugby which those organisations are delighted with . July & August & early September were two & half months the GAA had a complete free window to capture young minds in particular . Now a lot of matchs are lost with so many matchs each weekend along with the latter stages of rugby & soccer competitions. Leinsters URC final Saturday will really water down attention on weekends Gaelic matchs .

OpenStand (Limerick) - Posts: 752 - 09/06/2025 10:47:52    2616019

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Replying To sligo joe:  "Why would they such up and get used to something they don't want and something they know and have already shown they have control of, do you take them for fools, they know they hold the aces."
That lad is so out of touch it's embarrassing sometimes.

Viking66 (Wexford) - Posts: 16183 - 09/06/2025 10:54:36    2616029

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Replying To bloodandbandage:  "Just looking at some of the stats in the Examiner from Saturday evening's game - 102 shots, 42 of them missed. Five successful penalties and four futile. An astonishing 95 turnovers. The teams level on 17 occasions throughout with 24 different scorers combined. What it lacked in quality it made up for in guts and glorying. Crazy stuff"
It was a fantastic game to watch, thrills and spills, and huge effort. Great atmosphere too. So what if there were pickups missed and misplaced passes, and resulting turnovers? It all added to the excitement for supporters.
And better again It made the Championship more interesting. I'm sure Tipp, Kilkenny and the rest will be telling themselves that both teams are very beatable if the right attitude is brought on the day. Neither team looked miles ahead in terms of hurling.

Viking66 (Wexford) - Posts: 16183 - 09/06/2025 10:59:19    2616033

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