A feast this weekend. The munster hurling final is, in my opinion the zenith of the irish sporting calender, and many an occasional has eclipsed the all-ireland final in September. Its fresh (as a neutral, not to our rebel contingent) that this year there is a new rivalry. I suspest those rebels will still be playing well into the autumn and will be ready to clip the tail sof the cats. I wish I could say the same for Galway, but unless we can co-erce the cats into sipping some poisoned milk, I fear early august will be our waterloo. Guinness Munster Senior Hurling Championship Final Thurles 4.00 Port Láirge v Luimneach Referee: Seamus Roche, T. Ãrann I fancy Limerick to pull a surprise here. Ive always admired Waterford, but they are porous and Limerick might just have the beating of them. Bank of Ireland Connacht Senior Football Championship Final Hyde Park 2.00 Sligeach v Gaillimh * Referee: Brian Crowe, An Cabhán It has to be Galway here. Im not sure how well equipped they are for a sustained championship challenge though. I still suspect Mayo will lurk in the shadows, and I suspect will catch us in the quarter final. Hope I'm wrong.
Hey Ger, we're just never going to agree on this stuff.... Waterford & Sligo for me...the former cos I think thy're the only other team with a chance of 'doing' the cats & the latter for family / emotional reasons & I just don't think Galway are that good. What price the double?
On my way to bookies with the life savings so. You would get fair odds on that. You are right, I dont rate Galway, but they should be good enough to beat Sligo ( but I am Partizan). Ill be cheering Waterford (love them) but those Limerick boys are resilient. Nice to have a non Cork- Tipp final though isnt it
Yes it is but I have to admit my general soft spot in the hurling is for Wexford...spent long happy summers in Rosslare as a kid
I fondly remember a summer in 2004 when wexford scored a last minute goal to beat the cats and then a few hours later, the mercurial zidane vomitted enroute to a double ( remember his first , the penalty) late on against england. Hurling for me though is dominated by Noel Lane's goals in the finals of 87 and 88, listening to it on a beat up transisitor radio as I was too nervous watch it on TV. Got to see the Sunday game that night though so it was good.
Ah Zidane...England...2 - 1 ...backed the corrrect score about 13/2 as I recall..Carlsberg dont do the last 5 mins but if they did... 87 - 88 not in touch with hurling then my friend, I was a bona fide member of the travelling community...London...Dunkirk...Amsterdam...Gedser (it's in Denmark - not much hurling!)...Copenhagen...Hamburg..Broke (it's in Dublin ...about 1990!)!
Waaaherford and Galway for me. Even as a rebel I have to agree with Meagar that it is good to see the munster championship goin around, pity it's not happening in leinster. So tip for the wknd is atreble waterford galway and cork.
Come on the Deise!! I think Waterford will have too much firepower for Limerick. It should be a cracker though. Clare will be up for the game against Galway big time and I can see them taking it especially at home. Galway should be too good for Sligo though on Sunday.
Galway were dreadful in the hurling. Again! Iexpected them to topple Clare (who very very poor too). Good call Dougal.
Yoda strikes again....Its the force I tell you....Give this man a weekly tips thread...Forget the Celtic tiger
Guess who didn't back his own tip again.....I'm giving up this golf crack as I only won 2 yoyo's on that
They're probably the only side capable of beating Kilkenny but I'm going to nail my cats to the mast and say Kilkenny will end up too good for all...again.
I agree yodabenitez, the Cats are looking a class act again this year. Still though, I reckon Cork and Waterford are both capable of giving them a run for their money.
No chance. Galway to beat Cats, Derby to win premiership, United, Chelsea and Arsenal to go down. Ok Cats to win.
Hurling Qualifiers Group A 14 Jul 2007 Galway V Antrim Pearse Stadium, Galway 14 Jul 2007 Laois V Clare O'Moore Park Qualifiers Group B 14 Jul 2007 Offaly V Dublin Tullamore 14 Jul 2007 Tipperary V Cork Thurles Football Leinster 15 Jul 2007 Dublin V Laois Croke Park Ulster 15 Jul 2007 Monaghan V Tyrone Clones Qualifiers 14 Jul 2007 Derry V Mayo Celtic Park 14 Jul 2007 Westmeath V Donegal Cusack Park 14 Jul 2007 Kildare V Louth Newbridge 14 Jul 2007 MeathV Fermanagh Navan Well after last weeks debacle I should retire. Anyway I reckon, Galway, Clare, Cork, Dublin will prevail in hurling. Football, should be Dublin, but not by as much as last year, Tyrone (will be more difficult than many expect, but they should be too strong), Mayo, Donegal, Kildare and maybe Fermanagh ( they always have one surprise in them). Yoda, over to you. Any accumulators or doubles youd suggest. After last week you are to be respected!
There are times when the best tip is to keep the money in the pocket and it looks like this might be one of those weekends, but as were on a bit of a roll here goes. Don't like accums or even doubles usually so in the never ending search for a bit of value.... Cork / Tipp - Draw Dubs to win the football -6. Here's the disclaimer.....no liability is accepted for any daft headbangers who may be tempted to believe I actually have jedi powers (I'm really Gandalf in disguise)