Padraig_Dub
County: Dublin
Posts: 11

961403 I wonder how many turn up? They deserve a near full house the effort they've put in to improve so rapidly, but alas I doubt it.

THEY REALLY DO BUDDY THEY REALLY DO !!!!!
would love to see a full house after so much progress from the dubs this year the supporters should all get behind them great day out also amazing achievement once again getting to a final
well heres is wishing a full house come the final

dubbydave. (Dublin) - Posts: 3927 - 20/06/2011 20:38:33    961430

PROC_Hurler
County: Cork
Posts: 198

961235 "Bob O'Keffee, yer coming home lad!!"

Bob was born in Mooncoin in Kilkenny.......

As for the game........

This hopefully will be a very different KK to that we saw in the league final. Whilst obviously disappointing, of that side, we were missing Henry, Richie, Tommy, and Mick Fennelly and JJ went off injured. Whatever way you want to read the league, those players are huge additions to us. And they will make a hell of a difference when back. I'll be disappointed if we lose but in fairness to the progress Dublin have made, it wouldn't be a shock to see the Dubs win

Well Proc, when you first came on the scene with your rabid pro Cork posts, I had you down as a wind up merchant.. You are back but you have suddenly turned into a Kilkenny man. You are obviously posting as a kilkenny man under another username but on this thread logged on under the previous pro Cork username. Ye guys are tiresome, the Administrator should root ye out and ban ye to try and protect the integrity of the forums.

corkcelt (Cork) - Posts: 4388 - 20/06/2011 21:05:43    961451

961235 "Bob O'Keffee, yer coming home lad!!"

Bob was born in Mooncoin in Kilkenny.......

Liam Mac was born in Thurles.

thurlesblues (Tipperary) - Posts: 4475 - 20/06/2011 21:25:17    961470

PROC,

Yep, you are back!....and have exposed yerself as a 'name hopper'!!

Cork / Kilkenny. where is he from?

Who else are you today??

Regards,

Snufalufagus...Laochra Gael

Snufalufagus (Dublin) - Posts: 8100 - 20/06/2011 21:25:45    961471

Kilkenny will win at a canter-There is absolutely no comparison between league and championship. Kilkenny like my own Kerry take every game seriously but bottom line is that the league counts for nothing. Kilkenny will restore the natural order and win very comfortably. KK to score at least two goals and win by by 8-10 points.
kingdomfan , 20/06/2011 at 19:41

Id say you could be right

thurlesblues (Tipperary) - Posts: 4475 - 20/06/2011 21:31:09    961478

Although Dublin beat Kilkenny in the league, it's now July and the cats have licked their wounds for 2 months. I think Kilkenny will win this buy about 4-5 points. I hope I am wrong and would love to see the Dubs do it but I cant see it happening. But I have been wrong before (once).

Pinkie (Wexford) - Posts: 4100 - 20/06/2011 21:32:46    961481

kk by 6 but the dubs to give it a right go for 50 odd minutes

tipptothetop (Tipperary) - Posts: 531 - 20/06/2011 21:54:13    961520

Well spotted corkcelt!

What is the point in someone pretending to be from somewhere else in order to engage in abuse?

There are plenty of good honest posters here from lots of counties.

As for the final, looks likely to beat the record for a Leinster fnal attendance. I would be surprised if there are less than 50,000.

hurlingdub (Dublin) - Posts: 6978 - 21/06/2011 09:06:27    961556

Hopefully this game along with the munster final, can set the hurling championship alight.

Long_John (Down) - Posts: 299 - 21/06/2011 09:34:14    961567

Hoping for a cracker.should be an unreal day out.if we had a full team id give us a fifty fifty chance.now with probably 2 or 3 central players missin and treacy whos a quality player,them odds have lenghtened.kk wil be a completely different team for this game.if everything goes right,could the cats lose their third final to us.heres hoping

dubs4eva (Dublin) - Posts: 484 - 21/06/2011 09:55:19    961583

There are enough teams capable of beating Dublin....but nobody's gonna beat them by 8-10 points - with their mentality right now? no chance.

Floops (Dublin) - Posts: 1623 - 21/06/2011 10:11:12    961598

Kilkenny will win by 8-10 points!

womenourlimits (Galway) - Posts: 237 - 21/06/2011 12:09:26    961753

Kilkenny are very unpredictable at the moment. I know they beat Wexford handy but for one Wexford are not a top 6 team at the moment and I think we played really badly. So Kilkenny are still being gauge against previous performances and not current form if you ask me.
If they play the same way against Dublin as they played against us they will loose.
Saying that with a number of key players coming back and a win under their belt if they do turn up on the day I think they will win by 5 or 6.
Dublin defence against Galway wasn't brilliant and I could see them leaking a few goals. Galway could have had 4 or 5.

Nick (Wexford) - Posts: 1100 - 21/06/2011 12:45:34    961783

Think the Cats will have just a little too much experience and class for the dubs on the day. Although I do want Dublin to win!

mikeyk16 (Kildare) - Posts: 171 - 21/06/2011 13:20:55    961832

I think the big issue for Kilkenny is the full back line. It was the problem in the all ireland final (plus the injuries) and the weakness in the match against Wexford as Wexford created enough goal chances to make more of a match of it but didn't take their chances. However, the imponderable is that Dublin haven't been creating goal chances so maybe KK's weakness won't be exposed.

The injuries to Dublin will hurt Dublin badly as they are key players in key positions. Brady is a huge huge huge loss. A shame really for the lad.

Whilst KK have a good few coming back. Richie Power is a huge addition to the league final team. Henry is probably not as much an addition based on his Wexford performance but the man is a legend. Mick Fennelly is another huge lad returning.

My fear is that this reminds me of 1980. We had enough warnings about Offaly up until that point but never thought they'd actually do it. Dublin are in the same position. There is no pressure on Dublin as if they lose, no one will be surprised but if KK lose, everyone will be writing our post mortem and proclaiming us dead.

It is great though to be talking about a Leinster hurling final with Dublin involved. Historic really. I'll be sitting beside my nephew who is on teh dublin hurling development panel. He'll be in the blue, I'll be in the stripes. Lets hope KK win but more importantly KK don't act the maggots like the league final.

Puddersthecat (Kilkenny) - Posts: 1692 - 21/06/2011 13:35:49    961852

For those of you interested Proc has posted on another thread now supporting Tipperary and writing in the style of thurlesblues. Perhaps he is thurlesblues perhaps not but why can't these fools just go away and leave genuine GAA people debate and discuss the games we love in a proper manner.

corkcelt (Cork) - Posts: 4388 - 21/06/2011 15:59:08    962061

So Kilkenny are still being gauge against previous performances and not current form if you ask me.

What about their proformances over the last 5/6 years would that not be a better guage of where they are, people are judging them on the league final and the league and they forget that they got to a league final with out the core of their team.... seriously write off kilkenny at your peril. Granted wexford were poor but kilkenny won it at a canter and looked like they a few more gears to go, if you have to read into kilkenny hurling at the moment you notice that they peak in september and I'll expect them to knotch it up another gear against dublin. League and championship hurling are a completely different animal.

Puddersthecat:
Pudders eveR the diplomate you did the same in the build up to the wexford match, were most of us really know you typing away on the keyboard all nicey nicey when really whats going throught your head is REVENGE!!!

Hag_and_Cheese (Tipperary) - Posts: 6103 - 21/06/2011 16:20:47    962092

Liam MacCarthy was born in London on the 21st May 1853

dhorse (Laois) - Posts: 11374 - 21/06/2011 16:42:57    962122

OK HAG,

I confess. I hope we hammer them! I hope we teach them a right good lesson. But then the nephew would be upset and I don't really want that. I would like a clean game of hurling. And I would like for KK to lay down a marker for everybody else. But everyone I speak to who has been going to the training sessions in all honesty don't think we are winning anything this year. Every team has its cycles. This one is on the downward run but they owe us nothing.

But I do fear for Dublin if the KK forwards getting going and decide a marker needs to be put down. Albeit September is the main aim.

Puddersthecat (Kilkenny) - Posts: 1692 - 21/06/2011 16:58:38    962151

brady is a huge loss , irreplaceable imo , and having in the season of his life , im i right in saying dublin are the only liam mccarthy cup team to suffer a cruciate injury ? brady and hiney out now , hopefully brady can go under the knife as soon as possible , amazing how he tried to play on considering how excruciating the injury is supposed to be , when i witnessed the likes of davoren , griffin , hiney etc get it they were all in some distress on the ground and had to be stretchered off , he jogged off , tough boy indeed ! treacys out , hopefully joey will be back , odwyer out to , up against it big time but i think we can do it.
1 maguire
2 corcoran
3 kelly
4 gough
5 mccaffrey
6 boland(fingers crossed)
7 durkan
8 lambert
9 rushe
10 mccormack
11 keany
12 mccrabbe
13 ocallaghan
14 declan odwyer
15 ryan
subs
nolan
schutte
walsh
carton
quilty
sutcliffe
carton
plunkett
ryan
ryan
clinton
oloughlin
ive called up danny sutcliffe , clinton and kevin oloughlin to replace the unavailbale trio from the galway game , brady , odwyer , treacy

haz (Dublin) - Posts: 213 - 21/06/2011 18:13:35    962263