Limerick V Kerry - Munster MHC

grenache

Ger Hegarty and his selectors have named their starting 15 to play Kerry
tonight Wednesday 28 April @ 6.30pm in Kilmallock in the
Munster Minor Hurling Championship Quarter-Final.

1 Eoin Webb (Kilmallock)
2 Alan Dempsey (Na Piarsaigh)
3 Mark O’Loughlin (Kilmallock)
4 Brian Hannigan (Feenagh/Kilmeedy)
5 Thomas Ryan (South Liberties)
6 Declan Hannon (Adare)
7 Kevin O Donnell (Kilmallock) (CAPTAIN)
8 Chris ORiordan (Dromin/Athlacca)
9 Mark O Connell (Glenroe)
10 Dan Morrissey (Ahane)
11 William Hickey (South Liberties)
12 Jake Mulcahy (Kilmallock)
13 Shane Dowling (Na Piarsaigh)
14 John Fitzgibbon (Adare)
15 Michael Ryan (Murroe/Boher)


Subs:
17 Mike Fitzgibbon (Feohanagh/Castlemahon)
18 Mark Carmody (Patrickswell)
19 David Murphy (Kilteely/Dromkeen)
20 Stephen Foley (Croagh/Kilfinny)
21 Jack Aherne (Kileedy)
22 Brian Murphy (Fedamore)
23 Patrick Carroll (South Liberties)
24 Mark Ryan (Na Piarsaigh)

Extended Panel Members:
Brendan O'Connor (Croagh/Kilfinny)
David Reidy (Dromin/Athlacca)
Ciaran Keogh (Na Piarsaigh)
Conor Sheehan (Cappamore)
Liam Ryan (Doon)
Richard Ryan (Ahane)

I'm particularly looking forward to seeing Declan Hannon, John Fitzgibbon and Shane Dowling again, three Ard Scoil Rís 'Harty Cup' winners. Also Jake Mulcahy at left half forward, brother of senior star Graeme, is another very talented hurler. Kerry are always handy at minor level so i'm expecting a competitive game tonight.

Orizio

Kerry will be doing well if they keep it within 10 imo.

grenache

Orizio wrote: »

Kerry will be doing well if they keep it within 10 imo.

Shhhh!

grenache

Apparently six players only found out late last night that they weren't going to be part of the panel for tonight. Brendan O'Connor, one of Ard Scoil Rís top scorers in the Harty and Croke Cup finals is not even on the panel for tonights game. I don't know what Ger Hegarty and his selectors are playing at, but it appears they attend the Justin McCarthy 'school of communication'. Some things never change! :rolleyes:

grenache

Limerick 1-8 Kerry 0-5 at half time. We're certainly not having it all own way here, Kerry defenders very tenacious indeed! Murroe-Boher's Michael Ryan at right corner forward has got 1-5 from play and is our best player at the moment.

KevIRL

Limerick 2-13 Kerry 1-13 final score.

Encouraging stuff for the Kingdom surely

grenache

Limerick 2-13 Kerry 1-13

So it appears that the minors can indeed be equally as bad as their senior counter-parts. If it wasn't for the impressive Mike Ryan who scored 1-6 from play, Limerick would have been beaten. Declan Hannon was poor at centre back, i expected better from him but i suppose he's an awful lot of hurling done this year already so he's allowed an off-day. Shane Dowling did ok at corner forward, chipped in with a couple of points. Two lads in midfield, O'Donnell and O'Riordan, under-performed also, not much in the way of impressive fielding or link play. Jack Aherne from Kileedy was introduced near the end and he looked a decent player, scored a nice point from out wide. If we play like this against Tipp/Cork, there's not gonna be any Munster Final for us, however i expect us to up it for the semi. Tonight was all about the win, you'll learn nothing by hammering Kerry, who to be fair, were quite good.

shockframe

grenache wrote: »

Limerick 2-13 Kerry 1-13

So it appears that the minors can indeed be equally as bad as their senior counter-parts. If it wasn't for the impressive Mike Ryan who scored 1-6 from play, Limerick would have been beaten. Declan Hannon was poor at centre back, i expected better from him but i suppose he's an awful lot of hurling done this year already so he's allowed an off-day. Shane Dowling did ok at corner forward, chipped in with a couple of points. Two lads in midfield, O'Donnell and O'Riordan, under-performed also, not much in the way of impressive fielding or link play. Jack Aherne from Kileedy was introduced near the end and he looked a decent player, scored a nice point from out wide. If we play like this against Tipp/Cork, there's not gonna be any Munster Final for us, however i expect us to up it for the semi. Tonight was all about the win, you'll learn nothing by hammering Kerry, who to be fair, were quite good.

Kerrry had played in the harty cup and beat waterford colleges and lost narrowly to de la salle after leading most of the game.both had members of waterfords team that won munster last year.kerry were always going to be a tough nut to crack.

if anything limericks win giving ger hegartys seemingly outright ignorance towards his panel is a bit of a surprise to me.

whats say fellow treatymen. time for a march aginst the county board soon?

grenache

shockframe wrote: »

Kerrry had played in the harty cup and beat waterford colleges and lost narrowly to de la salle after leading most of the game.both had members of waterfords team that won munster last year.kerry were always going to be a tough nut to crack.

if anything limericks win giving ger hegartys seemingly outright ignorance towards his panel is a bit of a surprise to me.

whats say fellow treatymen. time for a march aginst the county board soon?

Is that Causeway you're talking about? Kerry are always decent at minor level, its only after minor that they lose players to football and soccer. We played them in minor in Tralee about 7 years ago and we only won by a goal. And that team had Andrew O'Shaughnessy and Pat Kirby in it.

Stevecw

That was a good effort by Kerry. They have also had a couple of fairly decent U-21 sides over the past few years. Just can't seem to take it into senior.

Back in Div 2 next year so hopefully this time they can stay up which should bring them on.

shockframe

grenache wrote: »

Is that Causeway you're talking about? Kerry are always decent at minor level, its only after minor that they lose players to football and soccer. We played them in minor in Tralee about 7 years ago and we only won by a goal. And that team had Andrew O'Shaughnessy and Pat Kirby in it.

The combined kerry colleges.actually id like to know if causeway played as part of that.

Sorry to have to highlight this grenache as your one of the better supporters on here but its this condescending attitude towards kerry thats a reason for our continued decline as a hurling force.people thinking all we have to do is turn up and well pull away.at this moment we are not that far ahead of the likes of kerry in most aspects of hurling.

of all counties below the top tier kerry are the ones most dangerous as others like antirm,laois,down have fallen away after breakthroughs but kerry are always able make a decent effort every 6/7 years or so.its internal politics that has done them harm or so i here.that and everyones favourite west limerickman taking the reigns 5 years ago aswell.

i would worry about the semi final.i didnt expect much from cork.

cork had players involved from nearly every part of the county tonight for the first time in yonks id imagine whilst we still ignore vast swathes of lesser clubs year in year out.

cork announced their new long term strategy today and limerick are still on strike after 6 months with no resolution likely.scary thought for the years ahead.

never mind.justins planning to turn limerick into all ireland winners in 2012.

grenache

shockframe wrote: »

The combined kerry colleges.actually id like to know if causeway played as part of that.

Sorry to have to highlight this grenache as your one of the better supporters on here but its this condescending attitude towards kerry thats a reason for our continued decline as a hurling force

Erm, no? The reason for our decline is that the people running hurling at the top level in Limerick are just not very good at what they do. Limerick DID play bad tonight though, and that's not being condescending to Kerry.

If you think i'm condescending, please refer back to my first post in this thread, i know from previous encounters that Kerry can be more than a handful at minor level. I work with a girl from Ardfert, and all she talks about is hurling, hurling, and hurling! (I would imagine that Causeway made up at least 50% of Kerry colleges as they are by far the strongest hurling school in Kerry)

kdigginz

grenache, i must correct you on ur last comment. im a student at causeway comprehensive. you say that the team that represented kerry in the harty cup is made up of 50% causeway, its actually 85% roughly. most of the hurling clubs in kerry are in north kerry. causeway comprehensive always have put out a strong outfit as nearly having most county players in the one school. our school is heading for 3 in a row at vocational level.last year winning the second all ireland at under 16 and a half and loosing senior all ireland to banagher college

Orizio

Congrats on that, but why did Kerry Colleges get hammered by two mediocre schools' teams in the harty this year?

kdigginz

there was no effort put into it at all. training has just started. if we had last years team we would have walked our way through it.

Orizio

Through what, the group or the Harty?

IIRC Midleton CBS had barely started training the time they lost to Nenagh, and most of the team was still playing club championship matches before the Kerry Colleges match. Not exactly a legitimate excuse for KC's poor results.

kdigginz

well basically there was no effort put into the harty cup this year

Morninglory

kdigginz wrote: »

there was no effort put into it at all. training has just started. if we had last years team we would have walked our way through it.

My uncle was at this match. He told me he had given up on Linerick winning an All ireland after this match