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I thought Liam was generous to limrik in the 2nd half because gilliane should have been sent off (wild pull across the legs) hegerty should have been sent off ( 2nd yellow for a foul) Hayes grabs yourman up around by the neck!
Terrible stuff altogether!!

katser (Galway) - Posts: 2473 - 08/05/2022 16:18:07    2415601

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Replying To katser:  "I think he is a great Referee, Tipp are going nowhere for along time...a better team would have won that match.
Galway and Clare definitely would have."
Clare might have but Galway aren't able for Limerick in Championship hurling. The ref was very poor. He did his best for Tipperary and that is for sure. Thrown balls called for one side only. Cathal Barratt looked like he was climbing a tree he was so up on Gillane and the he swipes across Gillane.
Still the one good call Gordon did all today was the yellow for Gillane for the badly timed pull. A fair yellow Katser?? Thank God he didn't send Gillane off or Limerick might have struggled.

bloodyban (Limerick) - Posts: 1710 - 08/05/2022 16:44:52    2415608

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Replying To katser:  "I think he is a great Referee, Tipp are going nowhere for along time...a better team would have won that match.
Galway and Clare definitely would have."
Clare will get their chance. And perhaps Galway will, too. And then you'll have your answer! So, your to-date useless opinion on all things, will have to wait until then!

foreveryoung (USA) - Posts: 2094 - 08/05/2022 16:46:53    2415609

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Replying To bloodyban:  "Clare might have but Galway aren't able for Limerick in Championship hurling. The ref was very poor. He did his best for Tipperary and that is for sure. Thrown balls called for one side only. Cathal Barratt looked like he was climbing a tree he was so up on Gillane and the he swipes across Gillane.
Still the one good call Gordon did all today was the yellow for Gillane for the badly timed pull. A fair yellow Katser?? Thank God he didn't send Gillane off or Limerick might have struggled."
Badly timed? A hurler as good as Gillane has no problem with timing. That was a wild, late pull and he was lucky to stay on the field, just like last year in the Munster final.

midlands (Westmeath) - Posts: 581 - 08/05/2022 17:07:25    2415615

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Thought ref favoured Tipp today, but the Gillane incident was an absolutely stone-wall red, also Hegarty lucky not to pick up a second yellow. Barrett at his usual rubbish, and ref giving no protection to Gillane, delighted to see him getting done for the goals.

Setanta11 (Louth) - Posts: 45 - 08/05/2022 17:21:38    2415621

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Replying To bloodyban:  "Clare might have but Galway aren't able for Limerick in Championship hurling. The ref was very poor. He did his best for Tipperary and that is for sure. Thrown balls called for one side only. Cathal Barratt looked like he was climbing a tree he was so up on Gillane and the he swipes across Gillane.
Still the one good call Gordon did all today was the yellow for Gillane for the badly timed pull. A fair yellow Katser?? Thank God he didn't send Gillane off or Limerick might have struggled."
He wasn't even in the same time zone, should have got the line, he has a history of this and has been very lucky on both occasions. how he keeps getting away with this I will never know!

ecad123 (Galway) - Posts: 272 - 08/05/2022 17:21:49    2415622

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Great win for limerick, the cream comes to the top.
Subs limerick brought on done well, Gillane was top class again.

Bon (Kildare) - Posts: 2083 - 08/05/2022 17:23:40    2415623

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Replying To midlands:  "Badly timed? A hurler as good as Gillane has no problem with timing. That was a wild, late pull and he was lucky to stay on the field, just like last year in the Munster final."
Gillane could definitely have seen red for that.

endgame (Roscommon) - Posts: 2300 - 08/05/2022 17:26:28    2415624

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In fairness it looked genuinely he was trying to pull on the ball in the race for it with Maher and put it into space, a yellow was all it deserved, no way intentional

preddan (Kildare) - Posts: 757 - 08/05/2022 17:32:02    2415626

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Replying To preddan:  "In fairness it looked genuinely he was trying to pull on the ball in the race for it with Maher and put it into space, a yellow was all it deserved, no way intentional"
If he was a slow awkward Junior B hurler I'd give him the benefit of the doubt but with his level of skill his timing couldn't be that bad. It was (another) example of his lack of discipline.

midlands (Westmeath) - Posts: 581 - 08/05/2022 17:57:03    2415636

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On the way home from Limerick now. I was there with a Tipp crowd and right in front of the Gillane incident. For me that was a straight red.
The game was very much in the balance at that stage and it was a match deciding moment. For me, the ref bottled.
Is the rule "striking with the hurl" or is it not?
Limerick found another gear in the last 10 minutes and once they did, Tipp had no answer.

StoreysTash (Wexford) - Posts: 1784 - 08/05/2022 17:57:46    2415637

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No such thing as "miss timed" What I saw was Gillane pull straight across the man's legs with No connection on the ball. Straight Red Card all day.

katser (Galway) - Posts: 2473 - 08/05/2022 18:13:04    2415641

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27,500 people at gaelic grounds today.
I doubt there was 2000 from Tipperary there, the smallest crowd of away fans ive ever seen at a Championship match in Limerick over 40 years. Huge home support which definitely helped the Limerick team in the last twenty minutes.

OpenStand (Limerick) - Posts: 717 - 08/05/2022 18:16:27    2415646

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Another disappointing result. Had Tipp turned up on the day they'd have won. It was an extremely poor game. However, there definite bright sparks for Tipp. I thought Stakelum, Noel, Quirke and Barrett were brilliant for large parts of the game. We have one top class keeper and he needs to be left there now. I think we were defintely on the right side of some marginal calls, I can't say otherwise. How anyone however can say Gillane should have stayed on the pitch? He looked at Ronan Maher first and then pulled. Anyone who has played the game knows that. Barrett was inside his head at that stage and five mins before that I predicted he'd be sent off.
I thought the man of the match was got terribly wrong. Mike Casey for me looked nervy throughout and I'm a big fan of his but I'd be surprised if Dan isn't moved back when the business end of the cship happens. I'm not too sure if Kyle hayes plays at 14 again either. I'd expect the limerick team to go back to the 1-15 most of us could guess at a later stage.
Relatively proud of the Tipp lads for trying to dig out a result. It's been a frustrating cship in terms of goal scoring. We've missed 3-4 easy goal chances in every game and handed goals at the other end. However, today showed us that the young players in Tipp have the potential to be a good side. Paudie, Brendan, Seamus, bubbles, niall O'meara, will connors, Jason forde, John McGrath and Bryan O'Mara would all have probably started todays game if Liam Sheedy was manager. We didn't do too bad without them.

tiobraid (Tipperary) - Posts: 4119 - 08/05/2022 18:41:11    2415657

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Replying To katser:  "No such thing as "miss timed" What I saw was Gillane pull straight across the man's legs with No connection on the ball. Straight Red Card all day."
Your fellow Galwegian saw it correctly and was much closer. There was no intent. Gillane actually pulled out of the challenge for all intents and purposes. It was a yellow all day long.

bloodyban (Limerick) - Posts: 1710 - 08/05/2022 18:42:04    2415658

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Its really impressive that Limerick can get 25,000 to follow Limerick ,guaranteed. Limerick always had a great support. Wexford can't get 11,000 at a home game against Galway this year. And you ll hear its a bandwagon...but Limerick would never have a paltry 11 000 at a home game...ever.

bloodyban (Limerick) - Posts: 1710 - 08/05/2022 18:45:02    2415659

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Replying To BarneyGrant:  "Just noticed that the last round robin games in Leinster are on different days and times. Kilkenny/Wexford is a must win for both but I'd have imagined they'd have all been same time as in 2019 to avoid any chance that one of teams might not have anything riding on their last game.

Not impossible that Dublin and Galway will be both guaranteed a place in top 3 and even the final after the Kilkenny match. The uncertainty the last time really made for a thrilling tow final games."
Not sure where you are getting that from Barney but according to the fixtures on the GAA website, all 3 games are set for 6pm on May 21st.

Gaillimh_Abu (Galway) - Posts: 1012 - 08/05/2022 19:06:17    2415665

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That means in the general consensus here that you can't attempt to play ground hurling anymore to keep the ball moving, free it into space whatsoever which it can be v effective at doing, it was a 50 50 ball Gillane looked like he was trying to pull on it put it into space and free the play up while Maher jumped into the swing of the hurl, that's how it looked to me, how can you mistime a swing when someone trys to throw themselves over a ball and when it happened he pulled out and dropped his hurl. What he done last year in the munster final deserved more of a red card than today considering he had the ball in his hand and flicked back at Barrett.

preddan (Kildare) - Posts: 757 - 08/05/2022 19:28:53    2415685

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Replying To tiobraid:  "Another disappointing result. Had Tipp turned up on the day they'd have won. It was an extremely poor game. However, there definite bright sparks for Tipp. I thought Stakelum, Noel, Quirke and Barrett were brilliant for large parts of the game. We have one top class keeper and he needs to be left there now. I think we were defintely on the right side of some marginal calls, I can't say otherwise. How anyone however can say Gillane should have stayed on the pitch? He looked at Ronan Maher first and then pulled. Anyone who has played the game knows that. Barrett was inside his head at that stage and five mins before that I predicted he'd be sent off.
I thought the man of the match was got terribly wrong. Mike Casey for me looked nervy throughout and I'm a big fan of his but I'd be surprised if Dan isn't moved back when the business end of the cship happens. I'm not too sure if Kyle hayes plays at 14 again either. I'd expect the limerick team to go back to the 1-15 most of us could guess at a later stage.
Relatively proud of the Tipp lads for trying to dig out a result. It's been a frustrating cship in terms of goal scoring. We've missed 3-4 easy goal chances in every game and handed goals at the other end. However, today showed us that the young players in Tipp have the potential to be a good side. Paudie, Brendan, Seamus, bubbles, niall O'meara, will connors, Jason forde, John McGrath and Bryan O'Mara would all have probably started todays game if Liam Sheedy was manager. We didn't do too bad without them."
Fantastically honest post. Loads of green shoots for Tipperary. The new goalie is the real deal in my opinion and ye can build a team around Noel McGrath. There's enough hurling there. Dan McCormack and Breen are a conundrum. Never get the full potential out of them.

Your honest about the ref aswell ,riding Limerick. But yeah Gillane was lucky enough..His reaction after it saved him and he raised the hands to say he was late . He gets a buzz out of living dangerously,same as Hegarty. Hegarty was very good when needed.
Tipperary need a serious reassessment of conditioning. I remember years ago a famous Tipp rugby player called out the Strength and Conditioning in Munster rugby. The IRFU was recommending nuts and berries while the French were on protein ( and lots of other stuff). At the moment Tipp are bring knives to a gun fight. Get the muscle on cos ye have the hurlers.

bloodyban (Limerick) - Posts: 1710 - 08/05/2022 19:32:55    2415690

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Replying To midlands:  "Badly timed? A hurler as good as Gillane has no problem with timing. That was a wild, late pull and he was lucky to stay on the field, just like last year in the Munster final."
Looked to me that he only had eyes for the ball. I had the advantage of watching it on telly and was able to rewind it several times.

Viking66 (Wexford) - Posts: 13774 - 08/05/2022 19:34:18    2415692

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