Limerick GAA Discussion Part 2

Every team employs sports psychologists. The biggest professional teams in the world do no matter what age the players are.

I think it's wrong to demean Curid and what she achieved.

thought we’d have enough today. Team and management probably thought so as well especially with Dublin going down to 14 so early. Touch and intensity poor all game and led to a lot of scores being conceded. Massive holes around middle sector which were exploited and led to Dublin players streaming through and getting off shots. Lost the ground battle for breaking ball which is always going to lead to trouble. Probably the end for a few lads as certain starters and a few difficult decisions to be made. Up to others to stake their claim for a starting spot next year.

This team has achieved more than any other group of players that have ever played for Limerick. Yesterday's defeat in no way diminishes their achievements.

13 of the starters and 6 of the subs yesterday have been involved during the entire period of success. Maintaining that level of form year after year is very difficult. Yesterday was the first time that there was a massive underperformance in a knockout match.

One of the key elements of this team over the years has been the strength of the half back line. The absence of a peak form Hannon is critical in this regard. Hayes is a very different type of player at centre back. When combined with Byrnes lack of form it has been a huge issue.

O Donoghue played like a ghost yesterday. No coincidence that Dublin seemed to have so much space and time to get shots off. English was our best player overall, but his tackling is a significant weakness. Several occassions where Dublin were able to run through him.

Lynch has been excellent all year and battled to the end. Hegarty kept us in it at times but also had a few hit and hope shots. O Connor had a very good game inside.

Morrissey looked knackered and was labouring throughout. O Neill was involved a lot when he came on but made some big errors also.

The sending off weakened Limerick. Having a extra man in the full back line meant that puckouts were going short. Instead of Quaid delivering quality ball into the forwards, Finn and Morrissey were delivering poorer ball. We'd have been better off using the extra man further up the field. E.g. Bring on Casey as an extra attacking option.

It was the display of a tired team. The energy just wasn't there on the day. I wouldn't be overly critical, they owe us nothing.

They let us down yesterday. The red card made us lose our shape and we didn't know where to put the extra man.

I was full sure they would solve that at half time but we came out just as clueless.

Crowd had nothing to do with it!

Limerick have been average all season bar a smashing revenge missionn against cork the results realy paint a picture!

We have been waiting and waiting and waiting but there was no performance left in them this season!

I feel we should have named an unchanged side to face clare after the cork game and kept momentum going !

Of course hindsight is 50 50 i have no answer to how we turn things around and do wonder will Kiely and Kinnerk stick around!

I never said cork smashed us i said we had a smashing revenge mission against them in the round robin and after that we fell flat!

Honestly just look at the results thats what counts the result for a team like Limerick!

i mean we smashed cork. Do you mean results in the league cause one year we won an ai and all we did in league was get red cards taken guys heads off and won one game. We topped the munster round robin table this year for first year ever.

tired. Leggy. On the wane. Flat i accept but still should have enough to put away a 14 man dublin team. That what hurts the most.

Sure we were a football county first.