{"id":418179,"date":"2026-04-26T09:22:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-26T09:22:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/418179\/"},"modified":"2026-04-26T09:22:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-26T09:22:09","slug":"unless-tipp-show-what-theyre-made-of-against-waterford-they-can-forget-about-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/418179\/","title":{"rendered":"Unless Tipp show what they\u2019re made of against Waterford, they can forget about 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\">At 11.50am last Sunday morning, I withdrew Mark Rodgers from my Fantasy Hurling team. The cut-off point for making changes is noon so I hastily replaced Rodge with Peter Duggan. With the whole county having it on good authority that Mark was \u2018100%\u2019 out, and since I had no Clare forward on my team, I felt that putting Duggy in would compensate for that potential deficit.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Even an hour before  <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.irishexaminer.com\/sport\/gaa\/arid-41830130.html\">the game<\/a>, the word on the street was that Rodge was in a protective boot since being taken off in the league final. When Damien O Meara put it into our RT\u00c9 Whatsapp group 45 minutes before the game that Shane O\u2019Donnell was in for number 13 (Shane Meehan), I felt compelled to correct him. \u2018Surely you mean number 14 (Rodgers)?\u2019 That wasn\u2019t what Damien was hearing. And he was right.<\/p>\n<p>This is exclusive subscriber content. Already a subscriber? <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishexaminer.com\/login\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sign in<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"IE Logo\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/4976285_1_org_Irish_Examiner_modal.png\" width=\"340\" height=\"41\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t    \tUnlimited access starts here.<\/p>\n<p class=\"subheadline\">Try from only  \u20ac0.25 a day.<\/p>\n<p>Cancel anytime<\/p>\n<p>\t&#13;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"At 11.50am last Sunday morning, I withdrew Mark Rodgers from my Fantasy Hurling team. The cut-off point for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":418180,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[1965,72371,5582,61,60,112],"class_list":{"0":"post-418179","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-hurling","9":"tag-munster-gaa","10":"tag-tipperary-gaa","11":"tag-ie","12":"tag-ireland","13":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=418179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418179\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/418180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=418179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=418179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=418179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}