National Hurling League 2023 Discussion

They might not, which is a reflection on how competitive Munster is. No weak team and 1 standout team. Cork finish with 2 tough games away to Clare and Limerick so are under massive pressure in their 2 home games.

Is he not tipping Limerick there? Now I’m confused. And it’s one former Cork player who I doubt anyone considers “a usual suspect”.

Ok so. I disagree with all those unnamed, unquoted people and I think Limerick will win it with the other 4 Munster teams plus KK and Galway being in similar territory and able to beat each other on any given day, like I posted earlier.

I don't see anyone close to Limerick at the moment. And I don't see anyone close to Kilkenny in second. I don't buy the whole anyone could beat anyone apart from Limerick.

I think Kilkenny are a clear second.

The rest are an inconsistent mess and it's whoever hits form at the right time. Out of the third group, any one could hit form or implode at this point.

Cork arrived in Nowlan Park today full of confidence having topped the "harder" group in the League. They had also beaten Limerick and would surely relish the chance of meeting them again, and pick up silverware. Kilkenny hadn't shown much to convince us that they were as far down the road as Cork. D Lyng has used the League to unearth new talent and to try various formats.

Well, it would appear Kilkenny are making progress and Cork were at the receiving end of it today. They hounded Cork, and Cork don't like being hounded as was shown today.

Kilkenny bothered with the Semi Final when the same two teams met in Cork last year. Cork won, so I presume they bothered on that occasion! Kilkenny bothered again today, like they will always do, and won. Cork lost, so we're told they weren't bothered.

We'll see if they can flick on that switch in the Munster Championship.

TJ Reid was talking through his hat by the way. I realise more than most how paranoid and sensitive Kilkenny can be, but Reid said that "everyone was saying Ballygunner were the best club team of all time". Even by their standards of imagined offence this was a new low. Surely not everyone in the dressing room is numpty enough to believe something so blatantly untrue and then get motivated by it? This sort of "we were written off" motivation might still be tried in places but it doesn't last long in a match. You need an awful lot more.

No I'm not from Limerick. I'm many miles closer to Kilkenny than Limerick.

I'm many miles closer to Leinster than Munster.

But I have the bare social confidence, as has many I know, to admit the current Limerick team are the best seen perhaps at this point in time.

Limerick may well be caught this year, however its as likely to happen at the hands of Cork as it is of Clare

Also, have you an issue with a sports fan admiring perhaps the greatest hurling we will see in our lifetime

An awful sense of bitterness off your posts, which I may have misinterpreted