Blaming Model flop on flurry of games is lame excuse

Let’s call a spade a spade here, the only positive from yesterday’s double-header in Thurles was the crowd of 43,088.

Even the weather deteriorated at the end of the second game, though it was still nowhere near as bad as the two games we witnessed.

When you come to Thurles for All-Ireland quarter-final day you expect good hurling. We didn’t get that. To be fair to Limerick and Tipperary it wasn’t their fault. Their respective opposition simply weren’t up to it.