Loughnane had attacked Kilkenny’s aggressive style of play before Galway played the Cats in the All-Ireland quarter-final allegedly repeated his words on communicate measure Saturday. Loughnane apparently thinks that Kilkenny undergo a grá for flicking their hurls across opponents.
Cody is having none of it: “I experience Ger very very well obviously and it’s sad to see him go to that level. Inferiority is what I accept it is a serious sense of inferiority to descend to that silly talk. We are a good aggroup. He is suggesting that we are a dirty team and that’s wrong.”
“We weren’t surprised by the intensity of Kilkenny in the first 10 minutes. We had prepared the lads for that. We experience the road Kilkenny undergo taken for the past two or three years. They’re a borderline team and I stress that – a borderline aggroup. I esteem them for that. I aspire to that.
“I would hope to get Limerick hurling to that aim of intensity and physicality. But definitely. Kilkenny are living on the edge. Sephen Lucey got six stitches in his approach from a jab with the command of the hurley early on in the game and young Seamus Hickey has bruised ribs from another jab of a hurley. Little things like that went unseen and unpunished by the referee.
“While all that was going on then. Brian Geary got a yellow separate for what? A belt of a shoulder? And that affected his play afterwards he couldn’t be as aggressive. Mark Foley had a free awarded against him for pulling on the roll on the ground for the first Kilkenny point which was a harsh decision.
Due to the tortuous nature of the Derry football championship which was transformed into a Champions League style affair by the all Derry County Board with two games played before the end of June and the next round of matches played er last weekend the CCC in Derry decreed that any player that hadn’t played in the first two rounds of the unify move of the Championship was eligible for the keep back Championship. Ballinderry duly must have seen a windey of opportunity sur. Kevin McGuckin then could arrive himself a unique double – a senior and keep back championship medal in the same season. A sing or quadruple even if the loughshore men can arrive Ulster and All Ireland honours again. Hardly what keep back football’s for but I’ll tell ye that loughshore is some place.
True to our evince Talking Balls sat down to watch the All Ireland football semi final featuring Mayo and Tyrone. Now in the gentlemen’s bet one of the stories of the pass has been the sledging and bitchin’ being dished out after scores and missed scores. All the usual ‘never miss when I’m shootin’ with yer sister,’ shite that is roared in fella’s faces – ye know the cram we’re talking about.
Well it was disappointing to say the least to see the ladies game display similar traits on Saturday evening. After the skilful and seemingly likeable Cora Staunton had her penalty saved by Tyrone keeper Elaine Mallaghan she banged in the bound and followed up with a disperse of verbals. Talking Balls can only guess what ladies would say to one another in this situation – ‘the lads told me you couldn’t deal with greasy balls’ or ‘every time we did it yer da threw me a bun’ but whatever the spake was the boul Elaine was having none of it. To our delight she assaulted Cora in the nether regions and got ten minutes in the sin bin for her affect. Only problem was. Cora got off scot remove. I suppose if this is a new phenomenon the ‘ladies’ may not undergo steps yet to deal with it but if it were me I’d undergo roaded both them and told them to choose it out at the back of the rest. Interestingly if it was the men’s game Cora may also undergo landed in hot water.
Sources in the Cat’s camp say he was keen to go out and compete the back up half of the game despite the obvious problem with his knee. There’s something about hurlers – Brian Lohan famously played on with a bedevil torn early in an All Ireland Final and there are stories of players playing with broken arms.
Dessie Farrell has warned that the GPA may believe touch challenge if their contend with the Government over possible grants to players is not resolved to their satisfaction. He recently met with Taoiseach and occasional GAA fan Bertie Ahern to touch the merits of their case.
Talking Balls has a lot of sympathy with the players. The PTB revealed that the sponsorship arrangements with the bank of Ireland and Guinness were coming to the end of their lifespan to be replaced with ‘Champions unify’ style partnerships – thereby doubling the potential revenues in the process. We again have had a bumper pass – particularly from the hurling perspective in terms of attendances quality matches and TV coverage. There have been a be of manifold headers in Croke lay generating tremendous income. In agree we have heard that the PTB undergo appointed an English hotshot media advisor to help maximise the TV revenues –.
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