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Limerick GAA Discussion Part 2

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,226 ✭✭✭PeggyShippen


    Interesting posts in relation to 2024 and the Limerick starting 15. For me there's one or 2 positions up for grabs only.

    I might be lambasted for saying it but I think current All Star wing forward Tom Morrissey's legs might be gone and he might just have his best years behind him. He was outstanding in Munster last year but anonymous in Croke Park and I just thought he'd lost a yard of pace ( he was never quick). I think O Neill will start ahead of him come championship in Ennis.

    Number 2 is Flanagan. Again he had a good season but when Casey went into the corner in the Final we saw what scoring can be done in there. I think Flanagan might come under pressure to start this year. I'd love to see O Dalaigh get a run of games. For me he's an assassin. I think Shane O Brien is a touch over rated but with undoubted potential. My issue with him is he overplays the ball . He needs the hurley to gain control instead of getting the 'paw' on it straight away.

    The two boys midfield don't have a full hour in them, especially O Donovan. Id see the potential there for some guy to put his hand up and battle to be the midfield sub.

    Support 🇮🇱 Israel



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 302 ✭✭Tommysocks11


    Yes ur right, Flanagan really needs to up his game and needs to score more as if gillane is shackled we need another threat, to me twas madness to put casey out roaming around midfield last year, I would actually put flanagan out there and leave Peter inside, yes we do need another midfield option next year too, Adam english maybe will come good there



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,101 ✭✭✭✭callaway92


    .. and Flanagan’s partner has had another child a few weeks ago, so if anything it would maybe be him that makes the call to step back?



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,194 ✭✭✭lukin


    Yes Gillane could be shackled this year alright but not in the way you mean 😀



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,474 ✭✭✭windy shepard henderson


    gillane could be in more trouble then hayes , if truth be told but none of them will get time , as a rival supporter i would love it if both were off the field for a couple of years but genuinely both players have been excellent role model's off the field and cant be judged on a bad night out , everyone has their flaws to be fair



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,125 ✭✭✭I says


    Leave things that happened in another country out of this. Manchester was it.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,539 ✭✭✭Quitelife


    Under 21 Premier hurling semi finals this week confirming the strength of the three city super clubs and general urbanisation of Limerick hurling with Ballybrown not far from city either .

    Mungret V Na Piarsaigh

    Monaleen v Ballybrown



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 253 ✭✭rjoe90


    Hurling in the city has really improved over the last 5/10 years. Having good Monaleen and mungret teams will be a massive boost to Limerick hurling. If St pats/claughan/Christians could improve also it would be a great plus.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,878 ✭✭✭Pogue eile


    Wow, you only had to go back 28 years to find something anyway comparable, interesting!!



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 104 ✭✭Dannymole22


    Bit off topic but is anyone aware if the new kits are being launched this side of Christmas? Small fella is asking for Christmas and I don't want to buy the current one if a new one is being released



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,644 ✭✭✭✭breezy1985


    Kits are on a 2 year cycle so no new one this year (sadly as I hate the current one and ruined my old one)



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 104 ✭✭Dannymole22


    Pity because the rounded collar on some other counties jerseys released recently are quite nice but can't argue with the 2 year cycle to be fair.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,644 ✭✭✭✭breezy1985


    Ya the current style is "retro" and it really suits some of the new jerseys. Kerry in particular.

    Our current jersey looks like it has tyre marks on it and I hate this new thing of having random coloured keepers jerseys like the soccer. Should always be white for us.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,539 ✭✭✭Quitelife


    Any update re Limerick Hurling season tickets renewals?





  • Next week I'm hearing. Also hearing that a price hike and the removal of the first championship being free were being considered. Who knows but wouldn't be surprised.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,101 ✭✭✭✭callaway92


    Cian Lynch ankle ligaments injury - 6-9 months out



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,635 ✭✭✭✭billyhead






  • He had ankle surgery towards the end of August 2022 and had resumed full training the following January and came on as a sub in Limerick’s first league game.

    9 months is absolute worst case scenario and would usually mean multiple ruptured ligaments. If the news is true (not questioning you but I do hope you have been misinformed!) then we could theoretically be looking at him being available again in the middle of the Munster championship. The trouble then is closing the gap from fit enough to train to full match sharpness - once he’s there he’s unstoppable but took him a while to get there this year.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,610 ✭✭✭High bike


    Heard the same thing supposedly gone for the year,hopefully not true



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,101 ✭✭✭✭callaway92


    Like any sport, the injury timeframe ranges from conservative to extreme, so obviously the 9 months is worst-case.

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  • Thank you for confirming exactly what I said then!



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,101 ✭✭✭✭callaway92


    Nah - was just the way you wrote it came across as if I wrote something completely wrong

    Post edited by Boards.ie: Mike on




  • Nope didn’t mean it that way, you said nothing wrong. I only hope you’re wrong in terms of what you heard on the injury :D



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,610 ✭✭✭High bike


    Apparently all bs,was talking to someone who met him yesterday,he's on crutches but only because he had a plate removed from his ankle from last years injury.Will be right as rain in a few weeks he said.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,007 ✭✭✭Vinnie222




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,644 ✭✭✭✭breezy1985


    He is possibly the most skillful hurler ever and would be a shame if we spend any more of this great run not seeing him play.

    Good to here it's just a routine injury.





  • He’s abnormally skilled in certain situations, almost like it all happens in slow motion for him. Last two years we had three championship games with a fully fit and match sharp Cian Lynch - and our three biggest winning margins and most comfortable outings in all 3 (Cork ‘22, Galway ‘23, Kilkenny ‘23). Every other game was an arm wrestle, no coincidence. (Granted, Kilkenny wasn’t at all comfortable for the first half hour)



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,644 ✭✭✭✭breezy1985


    Cork 21 was absolute magic. The whole played great and you don't win like that if they don't but his display was one of the best individual displays I have seen.

    He can make the hurley and sliotar stick together better than most us can stick two magnets together.

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  • We’re very lucky JP McManus was born a Limerick man. His name has been used to try and take away from the success of the last five years by many an outsider - he’s been supporting the Limerick GAA cause long before the arrangement was formalised in 2005. Scholarships, investment in the Limerick hospital, lads we’ll never know the half of what he has contributed to our county.

    The €1m for each county board won’t silence the begrudgers I have no doubt - I recall some moaning in 2018 that it was unfair he gave an equal €100k to each county as in proportional terms it was a small amount for larger counties relative to say a Leitrim or a Longford!

    The man is a fcuking legend.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,610 ✭✭✭High bike


    100% agree and I'll bet you'll have the same sh1te this time

    Post edited by Boards.ie: Mike on


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