Limerick GAA Discussion Part 2

The 6 backs very good Connolly,Barrett,Harnady anonymous

Love the way he doesn’t shy away from the physical stuff. Hes hard as nails, an assassin of a full forward, give him half a yard and hes going to turn the full back and head for goal, he’s having a great year so far.

Id say Cahill is licking his lips after that today,should be interesting in Thurles in 2 weeks time.

my biggest worry going into your first game , we conceded 2 goals today by losing rucks inside our own 13 yard line

Good to get the record in finals on track again, that's now 15 wins from 16 finals under Kiely.

It was a well contested game, despite some of the usual suspects in the media having their 'shadowboxing' excuses in early. John Fogarty in the examiner: 'Cork wont be perturbed by the loss in a game lacking in intensity'. Dont know what game he was watching, there was plenty of hard running, tackles and battles in the game. The examiner, including Dalos podcast, are obsessed with this type of nonsense.

Limericks intensity in attack was excellent, the half foward line never stopped making runs and showing for puckouts.

Byrnes had his best game in a couple of years, despite the bad mistake for the goal. Id have been questioning him earlier in the year, but he has really clicked back to form. All the backs played well and Cork werent allowed much space. O Donoghue now firmly established at 6.

O Connor and O Brien didnt have their best games, though O Connor did a lot of running. Lynch a bit quieter than normal as well. The shooting accuracy was a bit off at times so plenty of room for improvement.

O Connor missed 4 frees, but 2 were low percentage ones. Missed a straightforward one v Galway also so there's a little bit of pressure on that now.

Id imagine it' ll be the same starting team for championship.

Does Nickie get some blame on that goal. Yes Byrnes **** up with a bad pass but why are you so far out of your goals looking for the ball. Especially when it looks like there's two free defenders also available.

Ah sure the league was of no importance this year,completely different to last year!!!!

Ya it's moronic reporting. Similar to the....teams may be keeping something in reserve nonsense before a ball was pucked. Both teams wanted to win it and in reality when Limerick turn it on no team can match them.

BOC would want to get his head looked at if he puts O'Donogohe on Gillane again , he roasted him and Mellierick was as bad when he went on him. Probably unmarkable at this stage really.

Great to see Limerick and Cork first and second favourites for the all ireland with the bookies, same as last year.

As a Cork man, I don't know how you could say we know where Cork are at after Sunday and still have them as joint favourites with Limerick as per the bookies. There was a big enough gulf between the teams on Sunday I thought and the scoreline flattered Cork if anything.

Having said that they got close enough on the scoreboard at times and if the Barrett throw was let go they might have goaled and kicked on. The pressure on Cork to win in Thurles is huge as you could be staring down the barrel of a short summer a week later.

If Sean Stack was reffing he'd have given Cork a free for breaking the hurley.

I'd say you must have played a decent level of hurling if you thought there was any more in that than a yellow card which is what he got. Stupid and careless from the Cork player but if you played at all you'd know that that wouldn't hurt in the slightest and only looks dramatic because the hurley broke.

I won't even go there with that incident I think you're talking about.

Sad state of affairs if people think there's much in that video above.

Similarly the incident in the previous league match where Kyle Hayes broke a hurley off Tommy O Connell who jumped into him. Got a yellow card but was barely a free and you had clowns calling for a red who haven't a clue.