Limerick GAA Discussion Part 2

Thanks for those kind comments WSH. I have to say we were in the midst of a good few Clare supporters yesterday and they were, as ever, to a man, very gracious in defeat. Clare have a very fine team and all agree it was a tremendous game yesterday. In ordinary time it could have gone either way. TK was outstanding but several of his teammates played very well also. Seamus Flanagan was indeed exceptional again yesterday.

Definitely in favour of this 'Barry Nash for hurler of the year' talk as I've him backed at 66/1 ....hard to see Kelly not winning it though....not sure I've ever seen a better player.

I was at both provincial finals last weekend and, leaving aside the standard of the games there was a massive contrast between the two in terms of occassions. The Leinster final suffered from being in Croke Park. No more than 20-22 thousand there I'd guess, and a poor atmosphere overall. A lot of people more interested in going in and out for drinks than watching the match....coming back from half time 10 minutes into the second half etc.....the number of times I had to stand up to let people past....🙄

Total contrast with thurles on Sunday....fevered atmosphere in a full house....and just a fantastic occassion overall. Thank god for the Munster hurling championship.

A Limerick v Clare all ireland final looks a distinct possibly and if it does work out that way, you can be fairly sure it'll go down to the wire........as they say in racing, there is no more than the width of a cigarette paper between them.

That was a titanic battle on Sunday. It's a game we probably would have lost a few years ago but we have definitely become a team that knows how to win. Clare played very well and had a good plan. We struggled on their puckouts again. Their forwards worked really hard when we tried coming out. We used a lot of long ball to good enough effeflct I thought. Conditions were hard and we just never reacted to anything really. Some achievement to win four Munster titles in a row. I thought winning one 9 years ago was unbelievable!

I think Limericks biggest problem is the 4 weeks without a match.Eventhough Galway struggled yesterday and prob should have been beaten I'd expect them to improve a fair bit for the match.Think Limerick will win but it could be a lot closer than people think

Yes you would have to make us strong favourites but again galwaywill need to be respected and I am sure they will be.

They wouldn't be ready to start anyway but be nice subs to have for last 15/20 maybe

No sees to know no rumours at all about him

You could drive around the M50, come off at exit 5 (Finglas).....drive a few minutes to somewhere around Glasnevin and its a handy enough walk to Croke Park from there.

They say no news is good news but on this case it might not be unfortunately

so did I but then you'd hear he's crocked. I was told last week he's good but nobody seems to know for sure

That sounds fairly positive,if he even got 15 mins against Galway would be great and good to see the other 2 fully recovered too but would doubt they'd be asked to start

For sure and by the look of things McInerney is prob out fro them he'd be a big loss if true

No matter how good he is can't see him start or Casey either for that matter

hasnt been john kielys style to parachute players back into the team, the player on the team is in pole position unless he does something wrong,remember how he built the panel in the first place by not bringing on the county champs players when they were finished with the club championship,some off them never really got back on the team but it showed other lads its not your name or club but what you do that counts