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The Team You LOVE To Beat The Most In Hurling And Football

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In Hurling I love to see Galway beat Kilkenny because they're always so good and if you beat them you've done something. Cork would be second and I suppose Clare third.
In Football I love when Galway beats Dublin the most. Kerry and Mayo would be next I suppose.

Trump2020 (Galway) - Posts: 1082 - 29/06/2020 23:37:46    2282327

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Tipperary

bloodyban (Limerick) - Posts: 1323 - 30/06/2020 10:33:26    2282345

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Replying To Trump2020:  "In Hurling I love to see Galway beat Kilkenny because they're always so good and if you beat them you've done something. Cork would be second and I suppose Clare third.
In Football I love when Galway beats Dublin the most. Kerry and Mayo would be next I suppose."
Football, I'm just happy when Limerick beat anyone..
Hurling, Cork, Tipp or Clare in no particular order.

skillet (Limerick) - Posts: 710 - 30/06/2020 11:07:29    2282351

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Replying To skillet:  "Football, I'm just happy when Limerick beat anyone..
Hurling, Cork, Tipp or Clare in no particular order."
Just happy to see the footballers do well too no matter who we play. It would have been nice though to have gotten at least one win over Kerry when we were going good a few years back.

Definitely Clare for me in hurling as I grew up in the city

Breezy (Limerick) - Posts: 1106 - 30/06/2020 12:20:45    2282358

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To the surprise of no one being a Meath football fan

The Dubs

I know they wouldn't say it about us as we've been so poor for years and its up to us to get ourselves back to that level. If they start loving a victory over Meath then we've achieved something

brian (Meath) - Posts: 909 - 30/06/2020 12:29:40    2282361

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Hurling: Kilkenny enough said

Football: Anybody in recent times, pity couldn't get a result against Dublin from 2010-2012 losses by 3 & 4 points and another after extra time all from winning positions early in the 2nd half

wexico15 (Wexford) - Posts: 2602 - 30/06/2020 13:12:27    2282364

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The opposition. Love beating them

MLR (Carlow) - Posts: 49 - 30/06/2020 13:30:24    2282366

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Cork cos you've never beaten them. It's just that you've scored more than them at the final whistle.

Buachaillbui (Clare) - Posts: 93 - 30/06/2020 13:34:25    2282368

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Replying To Trump2020:  "In Hurling I love to see Galway beat Kilkenny because they're always so good and if you beat them you've done something. Cork would be second and I suppose Clare third.
In Football I love when Galway beats Dublin the most. Kerry and Mayo would be next I suppose."
Looked it up and Galway last got one over the Dubs in championship in 1934... that rivalry is a bit of slow burner!

Pericles (Mayo) - Posts: 2198 - 30/06/2020 13:54:48    2282369

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The other All-Ireland finalists, don't care who.

Gleebo (Mayo) - Posts: 1803 - 30/06/2020 14:30:23    2282374

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Replying To Gleebo:  "The other All-Ireland finalists, don't care who."
Has it happened in your lifetime?

Cockney_Cat (UK) - Posts: 1115 - 30/06/2020 15:15:27    2282381

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Replying To wexico15:  "Hurling: Kilkenny enough said

Football: Anybody in recent times, pity couldn't get a result against Dublin from 2010-2012 losses by 3 & 4 points and another after extra time all from winning positions early in the 2nd half"
Hurling: Tipp enough said.

Cockney_Cat (UK) - Posts: 1115 - 30/06/2020 15:19:03    2282382

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Replying To bloodyban:  "Tipperary"
Hurling Tipp
Football Kerry- although we hardly ever beat them in that code.

Oldertourman (Limerick) - Posts: 162 - 30/06/2020 15:23:50    2282383

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For me it's the Dubs every time. After that, it's Louth. They made the list after their carry on in 2010

Selwyn (Meath) - Posts: 195 - 30/06/2020 16:18:34    2282394

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Replying To Pericles:  "Looked it up and Galway last got one over the Dubs in championship in 1934... that rivalry is a bit of slow burner!"
That's fine as far as it goes. How many times have Galway and Dublin met in the Championship since 1934? Considering Galway have won 7 All-Irelands, and been runners-up 10 times since then.

Cockney_Cat (UK) - Posts: 1115 - 30/06/2020 16:35:17    2282397

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Anyone will do, in either code

Whammo86 (Antrim) - Posts: 3111 - 30/06/2020 17:32:13    2282412

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Replying To Cockney_Cat:  "That's fine as far as it goes. How many times have Galway and Dublin met in the Championship since 1934? Considering Galway have won 7 All-Irelands, and been runners-up 10 times since then."
7 times... last one a couple of years ago and the one before that 1983, a gap of 35 years. World climate went up a couple of degrees in that time, which is a couple of degrees more than the Galway/Dublin rivalry! Mind you, for those old enough, 1983 still resonates like few finals before or since - Mayo/Meath 1996 maybe, and the Dubs/Mayo semi-final of 2006, though that one only for the theatrics!

Pericles (Mayo) - Posts: 2198 - 30/06/2020 17:58:08    2282417

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Westmeath, can never beat them enough or by enough. And obviously dubs. After that I'd put Kildare. Nice rivalry in 80s and 90s with cork.

royaldunne (Meath) - Posts: 17035 - 30/06/2020 18:37:05    2282424

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Replying To Pericles:  "7 times... last one a couple of years ago and the one before that 1983, a gap of 35 years. World climate went up a couple of degrees in that time, which is a couple of degrees more than the Galway/Dublin rivalry! Mind you, for those old enough, 1983 still resonates like few finals before or since - Mayo/Meath 1996 maybe, and the Dubs/Mayo semi-final of 2006, though that one only for the theatrics!"
The Meath thing that a lot of Mayo people have boggles the mind really. I understand that Mayo could've and maybe should've won the 96 title, but isnt that the same of many other finals Mayo were involved in? Maybe its that Meath went on to win an All-Ireland in 99 after 96 and many Leinster titles also that meant the 96 thing was settled in the mind very quickly in Meath and now its barely an afterthought. Is that year seen as "the one that got away?"

Young_gael (Meath) - Posts: 391 - 30/06/2020 18:51:41    2282425

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Replying To Cockney_Cat:  "That's fine as far as it goes. How many times have Galway and Dublin met in the Championship since 1934? Considering Galway have won 7 All-Irelands, and been runners-up 10 times since then."
Off the top of my head, 1963, 1974, and 1983 that I know of.

PoolSturgeon (Galway) - Posts: 1448 - 30/06/2020 20:27:09    2282434

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