Limerick GAA Discussion Part 2

Why was Gillane taken off? Surely could have used him as an outlet at the end.

Never in my lifetime would I have thought I would see a Cork team celebrating a win over Limerick so much! It's great for a Limerick team to be involved in games like these.

limerick could not keep up with that Cork team tonight.

biggest winners today were tipp. Cork will be exhausted after that win. Like the nfl 49ners of the 90 s. If you beat them you will flop next game due to the exerts of today.

Declan Dalton jabbed him in the balls with the hurley

A repeat performance like last night will see Cork winning comfortably.

some awful carry on by Cork ‘ fans ‘ in Blackrock terrace. Abuse for 60 mins until Limerick took the lead then silence until the black card. A lot of them worse from wear. Not sure the late throws in a a good idea , long day drinking for some. Shame Limerick couldn’t finish it off.

Here's another pearl for you or does this happen at at matches too,a crowd of drunken or coked yobs burning a Limerick flag

Did u actually see the match because last week u were so sure Limerick would win u said u couldn't watch it,and then u come on with a stupid statement like that

Some game one of the best I've ever been at, Cork support was massive their supporters might have buried them if they lost but in fairness they came out and backed them last night.

Limerick will have to bring in some new blood I think, need to give a few regulars a breather for a few weeks, still Gillane and Hego look especially sharp O'Neill as well. Hopefully Mike Casey and DOD are available for Waterford & what'd be wrong with putting O'Neill to 5 with English in from the start rest Byrnes and Reidy or Tom.

I think it was a shoot out that we were on the wrong side of. Hardly finished when you score 34 points. They wanted it more I thought. We had 4 points heading down and I felt we tried hard but were not going to kill ourselves to get the win. No team had pace like that to hurt us. But they always had pace but u feel Kiely and kinnerk got the tactics wrong for this one.

Extraordinary that Limerick got themselves into what looked to be a winning position given the complete defensive malfunction in the first half. It could have been worse as Quaid made two vital saves.

Corks wind assisted puckouts caused huge trouble. Their half forwards were attacking the breaking ball whereas Byrnes and Hannon were too passive. Most of the Cork attacks were down the right hand side of Limericks defence. I wouldn't entirely blame Byrnes as there were a number of occassions where Cork funnelled extra players to that side and he was left isolated. However, Byrnes on usual form dominates in the air, he didn't win any high balls in this match and isn't playing with confidence. His free taking difficulties are compounding things.

Barry Nash wasnt comfortable defending man on man. He had serious difficulty with Brian Hayes. He was unlucky with two of the frees awarded against him.

Kyle Hayes dominated everything that came down his side and was immense.

Hegarty completely took over the game for a period in the second half, dominated with his strength and created the two goals. Flanagans finishing was top class.

Lynch only played in flashes and Reidy didn't have an impact. Gillane didn't score from play but created scores with unselfish play.

Cork very lucky that neither the linesman or umpires happened to see the Dalton incident or they would have been down to 14 for the third match running.

The good news for Limerick is that Mike Casey and Darragh O Donovan look like being available for the Waterford match. I think serious consideration should be given to the call suggested above re playing O Neill at 5. He was excellent at wing back in the league.

If either Waterford or Tipp win next weekend we are probably through regardless of the Waterford result, barring a massive scoring difference swing. If Cork win and Clare win or draw it'll be straight knock out.

Did you see the Hayes/Dalton incident? Actually see it? Not the aftermath- the actual incident.

I did. Hayes went over for "water" from one of Kinnerks messengers. Dalton stood in between them. Hayes took exception to this and tried to lay Dalton out with a "body" tackle. Dalton stood up to him and gave him a "body" back. There was no flick out or strike- wouldn't rule out that a loose hurley got between them(possibly Hayes' own).

I take it you didn’t see any of the abuse aimed at Kyle hayes then or does that just not suit your agenda? Or the chants from the blackrock terrace about Limerick being full of “********’