Gaa 2012

Kilkenny for Liam now? Galway's first-half performance was "brillent" as Loughnane would say. Galway with a 5-week wait to play probably Cork.
 
5 week wait is not ideal. The year Kerry humiliated Dublin a few years back at Croker, we were sitting preening and waiting while they fine tuned in the qualifiers.
 
Results July 7th/8th

MSFC Semifinal
Cork 3-16 Clare 0-13 att:

AI SHC Phase II
Cork 1-26 Offaly 2-16 att:
Clare 1-16 Dublin 0-16 att:

USHC Final
Antrim 3-18 Derry 0-9 att:

LSHC Final
Kilkenny 2-11 Galway 2-21 att:
 
moses said:
5 week wait is not ideal. The year Kerry humiliated Dublin a few years back at Croker, we were sitting preening and waiting while they fine tuned in the qualifiers.
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No. Surely the GAA could manage this time better?

We studied somethign along those lines in college where your were given your list of tasks, the length of time each one would take, which ones had to precede other tasks etc. You had to calculate the minimum amounr of time needed to complete the task.

It had a pithy name and obviously I didn;t study it hard enough.
 
Big Papi said:
Kilkenny for Liam now? Galway's first-half performance was "brillent" as Loughnane would say. Galway with a 5-week wait to play probably Cork.
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Amazing performance. Kilkenny only got 4 points. Only two were from play. One wide from play. Galway basically kept Kilkenny down to a handful of scoring chances for 35mins.
 
Big Papi said:
No. Surely the GAA could manage this time better?

We studied somethign along those lines in college where your were given your list of tasks, the length of time each one would take, which ones had to precede other tasks etc. You had to calculate the minimum amounr of time needed to complete the task.

It had a pithy name and obviously I didn;t study it hard enough.
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Critical path analysis?
 
Mighty day up in Croke park yesterday and a day long overdue for Galway hurling fans especially the ones that stuck by them over the years and believed they were capable of doing what they did yesterday. Right from the word go they put up to Kilkenny and bar a 10 minute spell in the 2nd half they didn't seem to give Kilkenny breathing space at all. It was total hurling at its best, skill, physicality, passion it had it all. I said last week in a post that if Galway tightened up at the back and if Canning was firing on all cylinders (scored (1-10) we would beat Kilkenny and sure enough that and more a lot more happened. The 18 Galway lads that took to the pitch yesterday gave it the whole 110% it needed to beat a team like Kilkenny. Cyril Donnellan who scored 6pts from play and my MOTM practically fell over the line he gave it so much when he was taken off. I have been saying for years that I thought we had the most skillful hurlers in the country but were lacking in physicality. Word was going around the county for months now that Cunningham was putting them through fierce tough training sessions and was working on the physical aspect of the game and it sure looked like it paid off yesterday. Cunningham is also known to be a master planner and tactician too which also showed yesterday.

For the 1st time in ages now the Hurling Championship is blown wide open, Its like a breath of fresh air and I cannot wait for the semi final.

The draw for the qualifiers was made this morning:

ALL-IRELAND QUARTER FINALS
Kilkenny vs Clare
Waterford vs Cork

ALL-IRELAND SEMI FINALS
Galway vs Waterford/Cork
Tipperary vs Kilkenny/Clare



Unbelievable Point

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Welcome to Galway Bob O' Keeffe!
 
Flash git with his showboating.


Really though, congrats to Galway. I missed the game with work, but I'll watch the highlights tonight. They were giving Kilkenny some hiding in the first half. I almost feel sorry for Clare now as surely they will feel the backlash for that!

Oh, and a special mention to the Sligo Intermediate Ladies who won a Connaught title yesterday. Hopefully the start of a very good week for Sligo and the men can win against Mayo this weekend. I have to go to the Hyde Saturday and Sunday for this.
 
Canning is a beast. Like, Jackie Tyrrell is no shrinking violet, but he just hopped off Joe there. Brilliant goal.

Donal O'Grady got the tactics right anyway!


 
The Black Pearl said:
Mighty day up in Croke park yesterday and a day long overdue for Galway hurling fans especially the ones that stuck by them over the years and believed they were capable of doing what they did yesterday. Right from the word go they put up to Kilkenny and bar a 10 minute spell in the 2nd half they didn't seem to give Kilkenny breathing space at all. It was total hurling at its best, skill, physicality, passion it had it all. I said last week in a post that if Galway tightened up at the back and if Canning was firing on all cylinders (scored (1-10) we would beat Kilkenny and sure enough that and more a lot more happened. The 18 Galway lads that took to the pitch yesterday gave it the whole 110% it needed to beat a team like Kilkenny. Cyril Donnellan who scored 6pts from play and my MOTM practically fell over the line he gave it so much when he was taken off. I have been saying for years that I thought we had the most skillful hurlers in the country but were lacking in physicality. Word was going around the county for months now that Cunningham was putting them through fierce tough training sessions and was working on the physical aspect of the game and it sure looked like it paid off yesterday. Cunningham is also known to be a master planner and tactician too which also showed yesterday.

For the 1st time in ages now the Hurling Championship is blown wide open, Its like a breath of fresh air and I cannot wait for the semi final.

The draw for the qualifiers was made this morning:

ALL-IRELAND QUARTER FINALS
Kilkenny vs Clare
Waterford vs Cork

ALL-IRELAND SEMI FINALS
Galway vs Waterford/Cork
Tipperary vs Kilkenny/Clare



Unbelievable Point

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BP, I d'ont think Wexford & Limerick dudes will be happy with you, as they are STILL in the Champioship.
The next Q rd is;

Cork V Wexford
Clare v Limerick.
 
Your right StG, totally forgot about that, I was a bit under the weather this morning!

And I wouldn't be at all surprised if Wexford beat Cork, I heard Cork were supposed to be shaky enough against Offaly Saturday evening. The Clare v Limerick game is anyone's call.

After yesterday its going to be hard to predict the outcome of any of the remaining games. I'm hoping for a Galway, Tipp final though.
 
I'd say Cork & Limerick will have too much for Wexford & Clare.

QFs
Kilkenny v Limerick
Waterford v Cork

SFs
Galway v Cork
Tipp v Kilkenny

Final
Cork v Tipp or Cork v Kilkenny or Galway v Tipp or Galway v Kilkenny
 
ill be going into the leinster final but im not buying jack shit off ticket master

Its nowhere near a sell out yet let their poxy bastard website is trying to pigeon hole us into the canal end at the back, then charge you €3.50 per ticker for your trouble, the poxy bastards. Im not havin that, ill go to the ticket office and get them meself.

feckers
 
What about your local supervalu? They seem to be doing tickets for the big games now, but I don't think they have any charges/
 
oscommon (SF v Tyrone): Geoffrey Claffey; Seán McDermott, Niall Carty, Sean Purcell; Neil Collins, Peter Domican, Ian Kilbride; Cathal Shine, Karol Mannion; Niall Kilroy, Cathal Cregg, Niall Daly; Senan Kilbride, Colin Compton, Donie Shine.

Tyrone (SF v Roscommon): Pascal McConnell; Aidan McCrory, Conor Clarke, Dermot Carlin; Cathal McCarron, Conor Gormley, Sean O’Neill; Joe McMahon, Colm Cavanagh; Mattie Donnelly, Mark Donnelly, Peter Harte; Martin Penrose, Stephen O’Neill, Owen Mulligan.

Rosscommon unchanged from the 15 that started against Armagh, no big surprise.

Tyrone drop Ricey McMenamin for McCarron. Probably the right move, I don't think McMenamin should be starting too many more games.
 
Fixtures July 14/15th

CSFC Final
Sligo v Mayo, Dr Hyde Park

AISFC Qualifiers Rd2
Roscommon v Tyrone, Dr Hyde Park
Longford v Limerick, Pearse Park
Antrim v Galway, Casement Park :nervous:
Tipperary v Wexford, Semple Stadium
Leitrim v Wicklow, Carrick-on-Shannon
Westmeath v Kerry, Cusack Park
Laois v Monaghan, Portlaoise
Cavan v Kildare, Breffni Park :nervous:

MSHC Final
Tipperary v Waterford, Pairc Ui Chaoimh

AISHC Qualifiers Phase III
Wexford v Cork, Semple Stadium
Limerick v Clare, Semple Stadium :nervous:
 
Irwinwastheking said:
What about your local supervalu? They seem to be doing tickets for the big games now, but I don't think they have any charges/
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rang the GAA today complaining and they told me to ring tickets.ie

Its an Irish ticket company that doesnt have a handling or booking fee.
I got 4 tickets there. Great. Only the price of a stamp to send them to the house, saves me having to drive anywhere....

Cant wait now....Ill be havin a few scoopy doopys that day
 
heres my predictions

CSFC Final
Sligo v Mayo

AISFC Qualifiers Rd2
Roscommon v Tyrone, Dr Hyde Park
Longford v Limerick, Pearse Park
Antrim v Galway, Casement Park :nervous:
Tipperary v Wexford, Semple Stadium
Leitrim v Wicklow, Carrick-on-Shannon
Westmeath v Kerry, Cusack Park
Laois v Monaghan, Portlaoise
Cavan v Kildare, Breffni Park :nervous:

MSHC Final
Tipperary v Waterford, Pairc Ui Chaoimh

AISHC Qualifiers Phase III
Wexford v Cork, Semple Stadium
Limerick v Clare, Semple Stadium
 
Capacity of County Grounds

County Name Capacity
Croke Park 82,300
Tipperary Semple Stadium 55,000
Limerick Gaelic Grounds 50,000
Pairc Ui Chaoimh 43,500
Kerry Fitzgerald Stadium 43,000
Mayo McHale Park 42,000
Mionaghan St Tiernach's Park 36,000
Galway Pearse Stadium 34,000
Antrim Casement Park 32,500
Cavan Breffni Park 32,000
Roscommon Dr Hyde Park 30,000
Clare Cusack Park 28,000
Laois O'Moore Park 27,000
Meath Pairc Tailteann 25,000
Tyrone Healy Park 25,000
Kilkenny Nowlan Park 24,000
Derry Celtic Park 22,000
Carlow Dr Cullen Park 21,000
Down Pairc Esler 20,000
Fermanagh Brewster Park 20,000
Offaly O'Connor Park 20,000
Wexford Wexford Park 20,000
Armagh Athletic Grounds 18,000
Cork Pairc Ui Rinn 18,000
Donegal McCumhaill Park 17,500
Leitrim Pairc Sean Mac Diarmada 17,000
Sligo Markievicz Park 17,000
Waterford Walsh Park 17,000
Westmeath Cusack Park 15,000
Dublin Parnell Park 13,500
Kildare St Conleths Park 13,000
Louth Drogheda Park 12,000
Longford Pearse Park 10,000
Wicklow O'Byrne Park 10,000

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That's a lot of capacity. Impressed by Semple stadium. How did Tipp ever manage to develop a 55k ground!!???
 
Why do Munster have four grounds with a capacity of over 40k? Hardly necessary!
 
Irwinwastheking said:
That's a lot of capacity. Impressed by Semple stadium. How did Tipp ever manage to develop a 55k ground!!???
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They ran up a huge debt on the place. Then Micheal Lowry held feile there for a few summers and it more or less paid off the debt.

http://www.tipperarystar.ie/lifestyle/entertainment/lowry-suggests-return-of-feile-1-3619871


NORTH Tipperary Deputy Michael Lowry has suugested the County GAA Board to seriously look into the possibility of staging a Feile type event in Thurles in order to address the black hole in finances with team expenditure topping almost E1.2 million in 2011.

Deputy Lowry who was credited with clearing the debt on Semple Stadium thanks to the bringing to the Cathedral Town of the famous Feile rock festivals in the early 90’s, is currently Chairman of the organising committee which is preparing to bring Thurles native Una Healy and her band The Saturday’s to Thurles Greyhound Stadium on the Bank Holiday weekend in June. The prestigious gig was announced this week by Kennedys Live Promotions in partnership with Thurles Greyhound Stadium and will see 5,000 fans cram into the venue for a one-off performance in Una’s home town.
 
Lowry is untouchable in Tipp after doing what he did with the Feiles. He could feck the Pope in the ass on the altar at 11 o'clock mass and they've love him still.

The Gaelic Grounds in the real white elephant in Munster. Pairc Ui Chaoimh, Semple & Fitzgerald Stadium get good use.

O'Connor Park is still 20,000. The development, I thought, was to make it the biggest county grounds in Leinster but Laois still reigns supreme. 45 minutes to Monaghan game.
 
Knackered after that drive to Roscommon, but it was good to see Tyrone put up a good show. Mulligan was magnificent up front and scored some superb points. The Rossies were very poor though.
 
Stuff the Goat said:
well done BP, ya went to a lot of trouble for our benefit. ... I believe Breffni Pk holds 32,000 nowadays!
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Does it really?!?

To be honest, I did that a couple of years back so I just copied and pasted it. I have another one, which gives the (usual) dimensions of the pitches in those grounds. Took me weeks and weeks.........emailing county boards and secretaries etc.

When was Breffni done up? Its a fine stadium, with the pitch so far below the entrance (Dublin Road side).
 
Oh, and it was a tenner on the terrace today with free in for kids. Great deal, and I think if the GAA actually advertised it's pricing and product better when it is competitive like that they could have had another few thousand.
 
Letting the kids in free was a great deal alright, great to see things like that nowadays.

Hurling results (Phase 3 qualifiers)

Cork 3-24 Wexford 2-17

Limerick 3-18 Clare 1-20

Was a bit surprised by the Limerick, Clare match. I wasn't expecting a Limerick win at all. Fair play to them though, Moran had a great game. Clare tried to play a short passing game and it didn't work out for them at all, they were seriously lacking up in the forward line as well.

Tipp v Waterford in the Munster Final tomorrow, Corbett is back for Tipp. Should be a good game. I've a feeling Waterford will win it.

edited: As Feeky said Clare finished up with 1-20.
 
It was 3-18 to 1-20. 4 point win, and Clare started going for goals too early as well. Was a horrible call to give a free against Bugler too in injury time to prevent Clare from going forward just 3 down. Clare hurled better for most of the game but Limerick scored more when they were on top - outscored them about 2-7 to 0-2 in the 5 minutes before and 15 minutes after half-time. Goals each came at a crucial time too. Clare have played the short passing game all year and it suits their style, it just wasn't accurate today as it had been. Darach Honan had an awful game too, much better when he came off, though he's young 'n' learnin'.

Tipp - Wexford was a great match in the football, mad last 5 minutes. Wexford actually matched Cork for most of the game in the first hurling match, but again the goals came at crucial times.

3 matches for a 25 quid stand ticket, not bad at all.
 
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