Tipperary senior hurling team season 2016
| 2016 Hurling Season | |||
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| Manager | Michael Ryan | ||
| Captain | Brendan Maher | ||
| All-Ireland SHC | TBD | ||
| Munster SHC | TBD | ||
| National League | TBD | ||
| Top scorer Championship | |||
| Highest SHC attendance | TBD | ||
| Lowest SHC attendance | TBD | ||
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The 2016 season will be Michael Ryan's first year as manager of the Tipperary senior hurling team.
In October 2014, it had been confirmed that assistant manager Michael Ryan would succeed Eamon O'Shea as the Tipperary manager after the conclusion of the 2015 season.[1][2] In November 2015, it was confirmed that Ryan will be assisted by former Tipperary player's John Madden as a selector and Declan Fanning as a coach in 2016.[3][4] 1995 All-Ireland Under-21 Hurling Championship winning captain Brian Horgan was added to the backroom team on 20 November.[5][6]
Brendan Maher was confirmed as captain for 2016 in December 2015 with Pádraic Maher retaining the role of vice-captain.[7]
Intersport/Elverys will continue as sponsors of Tipperary GAA for the second year. The Tipperary jersey for the 2016 season is the same as was used in 2015 and displays the Intersport brand name on the front and their co-sponsor Elvery’s name on the back.[8]
Tipperary chose not to compete in the new Munster Senior Hurling League which began on 3 January and instead choose to arrange challenge games before the start of the National League in February.[9] Tipperary began their season at the JK Brackens pitch in Templemore on 10 January where they defeated Offaly in a challenge match.[10]
2016 senior hurling management team
| Name | Position | Club |
| Michael Ryan | Manager | Upperchurch-Drombane |
| Paudie O’Neill | Coach | St Mary's |
| Declan Fanning | Coach | Killenaule |
| John Madden | Selector | Lorrha-Dorrha |
| Brian Horgan | Selector | Knockavilla-Donaskeigh Kickhams |
2016 squad
The following players made their competitive senior debut in 2016.
- Daire Quinn against Dublin on 13 February.[13]
- Dan McCormack against Dublin on 13 February.[14]
- Dylan Fitzell against Dublin on 13 February.
- Joe Gallagher against Dublin on 13 February.
- Andrew Coffey against Kilkenny 21 February.[15]
- Barry Heffernan against Waterford on 6 March.[16]
- Kieran Morris against Cork on 20 March.
A panel of 26 players for the opening National Hurling League game against Dublin in Semple Stadium on 13 February was announced on 11 February and will be reviewed before each Hurling League game.[17] Ahead of that announcement, the county confirmed on 10 February that "Seamus Callanan will be out for a further couple of weeks, Conor O’Brien will be out for 3 weeks, Kieran Bergin will also be out for 2 weeks while new panelist Sean Curran has suffered a medial ligament injury which will result in Sean missing the entire League.”[18]
The first panel announced for the Dublin game was as follows, Darren Gleeson, Cathal Barrett, Tomás Hamill, Michael Cahill, Brendan Maher, James Barry, Padraic Maher, Michael Breen, Daire Quinn, Dan McCormack, Patrick Maher, Jason Forde, Noel McGrath, Conor Kenny, John McGrath, Darragh Mooney, Ronan Maher, Willie Ryan, Liam Ryan, John Meagher, Joe Gallagher, Adrian Ryan, Dylan Fitzelle, Sean Ryan, Andrew Coffey, and John O’Dwyer.
Challenge Games
On 11 January, Tipperary defeated Offaly by 2-17 to 1-15 in a Senior Hurling Challenge game played in Templemore, their first match of the year. Tipperary won the game on a 2-17 to 1-15 scoreline.[19][20] On 17 January, Tipperary will play a Thurles CBS All Star selection in Drom-Inch to mark 200 years of Thurles CBS.[21][22]
10 January |
| Tipperary | 2–17 – 1–15 | Offaly |
|---|---|---|
| Adrian Ryan 1-2, Conor Kenny 0-5 (1f), Patrick Maher 1-1, Sean Curran 0-4 (2f, 2 65s), Bill Maher, Dan McCormack, Daire Quinn, Jason Forde & Kieran Morris (f) 0-1 each. | Report
Darren Gleeson |
James Mulrooney 1-7 (0-4f, 0-1 65, 0-1 sl), Paddy Murphy 0-3, Sean Ryan, Shane Kinsella, Colin Egan, Stephen Quirke & James Gorman 0-1 each. |
Templemore Referee: Anthony Stapleton (Laois) |
24 January 14:00 |
| Tipperary | 7–29 – 0–6 | Mary Immaculate College |
|---|---|---|
| John McGrath 1-7 (0-4f), Conor Kenny 2-2, Patrick Maher 2-1, Kieran Morris 1-3, Noel McGrath 1-1, Dylan Fitzell, Liam McGrath & Andrew Coffey 0-3 each, Jason Forde 0-2, Brendan Maher, Michael Breen, Dan McCormack, Daire Quinn 0-1 each. | Report
Brian Hogan |
Conor Twomey 0-4 (2f), Eoin Quirke (f) & Alan Flynn 0-1 each. |
Boherlahan Referee: Philip Kelly (Ballinahinch) |
31 January |
| Tipperary | 1-31 – 0–17 | Laois |
|---|---|---|
| Dan McCormack (0-1), Kieran Morris (0-2 frees), Conor Kenny (0-1), John O’Dwyer (0-3 frees), Brendan Maher (0-5, 0-4 frees), Daire Quinn (0-1), Dylan Fitzelle (0-3), Andrew Coffey (0-3), Jason Forde (0-3), Liam McGrath (0-6, 0-2 frees), John McGrath (1-3) | Report
Darren Gleeson |
Dr. Morris Park Thurles |
2016 National Hurling League
Summary
Tipperary started their league campaign on 13 February against Dublin at Semple Stadium.[23] Tipperary won the game by 14 points in Michael Ryan’s first competitive game in charge of the team.[24] Jason Forde scored a goal 13th-minute goal, breaking onto loose ball before firing a low strike past the goalkeeper as Tipperary had a 1-09 to 0-03 lead at half-time in freezing conditions, despite registering 10 wides in the first half. The game was shown live on Setanta Sports.[25][26] Daire Quinn and Dan McCormack made their competitive debuts in the game.[27]
Tipperary played Kilkenny on 21 February at Nowlan Park, in a game which was shown live on TG4.[28] The starting XV was unchanged from the opening game against Dublin.[29] Two late goals from forward Kevin Kelly in the 67th and 72nd minutes handed Kilkenny a five-point victory in the game. Tipperary never trained in the game until three minutes from time when Kelly got his first goal to put Kilkenny into a 1-15 to 0-16 lead.[30][31] Tipperary have only beaten Kilkenny twice now in 11 games now since the 2010 All-Ireland final victory.[32][33][34]
Two weeks later on 6 March, Tipperary played Waterford at Semple Stadium, in a game which was shown deferred on TG4. There was three changes to his side Seamus Callanan returning, while Barry Heffernan from Nenagh Éire Óg made his league debut at right half back and Ronan Maher marking his first full start of the campaign at centre back.[35] Seamus Callanan was a late withdrawal from the team with a hamstring strain.[36] Austin Gleeson scored an injury-time free for Waterford as they won the game by one point, condemning Tipperary to a second late loss in as many games.[37] Tipperary looked to have snatched a win in the 68th minute when John McGrath scored with a low shot to the far corner of the net, but late frees from Curran and Gleeson sealed a one-point victory for Waterford.[38] Tipperary manager Michael Ryan speaking after the game said "That game ebbed and flowed, there was a period in the second half when we were well out of it. We went 20 odd minutes without getting a score and we really handed them the initiative in that period. And we ended up chasing it. In fairness, chase it we did and got ourselves right back into it. It was frantic, look, we had chances. We weren’t overwhelmed. We fluffed a very good goal chance, a long-range free was poorly hit and a 65 was missed. Look, those are the ins and outs of every game, that’s what you’re going to get but it didn’t come off for us. Call it what you will, that game was won with the last puck, an 80, 90 yarder, that free or the previous play could have gone in either direction. I wouldn’t be at all harsh on our boys.”[39][40][41] Tipperary captain Brendan Maher speaking after the game said ""Giving away a free in the opposing half you don’t expect to see it going over the bar, It was unfortunate the way it turned out, but it was a fantastic score from Austin."[42]
On 13 March, Tipperary traveled to Pearse Stadium in Galway in round 4 of the league. The match was shown live on TG4. There were three changes to the side that lined out the previous week against Waterford, with Kieran Bergin and Adrian Ryan getting their first starts in the 2016 league, with Bergin lining out at centre forward having returned to action as a substitute last week and Ryan starting at right corner forward. The other change saw Niall O’Meara starting at top of the left.[43][44] Joe Canning scored with a late sideline cut before John O’Dwyer levelled the game for Tipperary with the final puck of the game. The game finished 1-22 to Tipperary and 2-19 to Galway, Tipperary had a 1-10 to 1-09 lead at half-time.[45][46][47]
Relegation worries were still there for Tipperary after this game but a quarter-final was confirmed after beating Cork by 2-27 to 2-15 in the final divisional game on 20 March at Semple Stadium.[48][49][50]
Tipperary had a 13-point superior scoring difference to Galway going into the final day.[51] The match was shown deferred on TG4 and Tipperary had a 0-13 to 0-10 at lead at half-time.[52][53] Niall O'Meara scored the game's opening goal with 20 minutes, shooting low to the net with Michael Breen getting the second when he hammered it to the net from the right. Seamus Callanan returned for his first league game of the year when he came on as a half-time substitute, and went on to score two points. Tipperary manager Michael Ryan speaking after the game said "it was really good to get Seamie on the pitch in the last round of games, I was disappointed with that game - it lacked a lot of intensity and I'm talking about our intensity, I just felt it wasn't happening for us, which was unfortunate because we gave opportunities to guys out there to nail on places and get some quality time, It just didn't work out for a couple of guys for various reasons". The squad will have a training camp at Breaffy House on Easter weekend.[54][55][56][57] Following the training camp over Easter, six players were cut from the panel, Conor Kenny, Joe O’Dwyer, Kieran Morris, Joe Gallagher, Bill Maher and Sean Ryan.[58]
Tipperary went on to play Clare in the Quarter-Final's on Sunday 3 April at 3:45pm in Cusack Park in Ennis. A coin toss saw Clare get the home advantage for this game.[59][60][61][62] The game was shown live on TG4 and Clare won it on a 2-13 to 0-18 scoreline.[63][64] A 67th minute goal by substitute Aaron Shanagher sealed a Semi-final date with Kilkenny for Clare. Tipperary had a three-point lead in the 62nd minute but found themselves behind five minutes later when Shanagher got his goal. Clare had a half-time lead of 1-7 to 0-8. Speaking after the game, Tipperary manager Michael Ryan said "We've used a huge amount of players throughout this League but we haven't been successful in getting into the semi-finals. We're going to have to use the rounds of club games coming up for the guys in the next number of weeks to give them something different to focus on,".[65][66][67] The defeat to Clare was the seventh time in five years that they lost a game by a point. It was also their second one-point defeat in 2016.[68]
13 February 19:00 Round 1 |
| Tipperary | 1–23 – 0–12 | Dublin |
|---|---|---|
| J Forde (1-5), J McGrath (0-7, 5f), C Kenny (0-3), J O’Dwyer (0-3), Padraic Maher (0-2), N McGrath (0-2), D Fitzelle (0-1). | Report
D Gleeson |
D Treacy (0-3f), N McMorrow (0-2), D Plunkett (0-1), E Dillon (0-1), D O’Callaghan (0-1), P Ryan (0-1f), M Schutte (0-1), C Cronin (0-1), D O’Connell (0-1). |
21 February 14:00 Round 2 |
| Tipperary | 0–18 – 2–17 | Kilkenny |
|---|---|---|
| J O’Dwyer 0-9 (3f, 2 65s), J McGrath 0-4 (1f), C Kenny 0-2, N McGrath 0-2, M Breen 0-1. | Report
D Gleeson |
TJ Reid 0-10 (6f, 1 65), K Kelly 2-1, J Maher 0-4, P Walsh 01, W Walsh 0-1 |
6 March 15:00 Round 3 |
| Tipperary | 1–17 – 1–18 | Waterford |
|---|---|---|
| J O’Dwyer 0-11 (9f), J McGrath 1-2, M Breen 0-2, N McGrath, B Maher 0-1 each. | Report
D Gleeson |
P Curran 0-9 (7f), T Devine 1-0, S Bennett 0-3, K Moran, A Gleeson 0-2 (1f) each, M Kearney, J Barron 0-1 each. |
13 March 14:00 Round 4 |
| Galway | 2–19 – 1–22 | Tipperary |
|---|---|---|
| J Canning 1-11 (8f, 1 sl), N Burke 0-4, J Flynn 0-3, I Tannian 1-0, D Glennon 0-1 | Report
D Gleeson |
J McGrath 0-6 (4f), N O’Meara 1-0, M Breen 0-3, N McGrath 0-3, B Maher 0-2, A Ryan 0-2, J O’Dwyer 0-2, C Barrett 0-1, B Heffernan 0-1, D Quinn 0-1, Padraic Maher 0-1 |
20 March 14:00 Round 5 |
| Tipperary | 2–27 – 2–15 | Cork |
|---|---|---|
| J O'Dwyer 0-10 (9fs), M Breen 1-4, J McGrath 0-5, N O'Meara 1-1, N McGrath, S Callanan, D McCormack 0-2 each, B Maher 0-1 | Report
D Gleeson |
P Horgan 1-8 (0-6fs), P O'Sullivan 1-0, C Lehane 0-3, P Haughney, B Lawton, B Cooper, L O'Farrell 0-1 each. |
3 April 15:45 Quarter-Final |
| Tipperary | 0–18 – 2–13 | Clare |
|---|---|---|
| J McGrath 0-6, J O'Dwyer 0-3 (3f), S Callanan (2f), M Breen, P Maher 0-2 each, J Forde, R Maher, N McGrath 0-1 each. | Report
D Mooney |
J Conlon 1-1, A Shanagher 1-0, B Duggan (2f), D Honan 0-3 each, C Galvin, C McGrath, C O'Connell (2f) 0-2 each. |
2015 Munster Senior Hurling Championship
Tipperary were drawn to take on Cork on 22 May at Semple Stadium in the Munster Quarter-final.The winners of that game will go on to play Limerick in the Munster Semi-final on 18 June.[69][70][71]
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