Limerick GAA Discussion Part 2

Season ticket holders; has your league final ticket appeared in the "redeem" section yet?

For anyone in South/West Limerick Charleville is very handy with many trains and similarily Limerick Junction for East Limerick.

On a different note many counties like Kerry have supporters clubs who run buses to matchs league games in particular , probably room for that in Limerick , couple of supporters club buses to Wexford, Galway etc and a league final in cork be filled easy enough youd think.

Irish Rail added a special train today. Direct to and from Cork.

I'm thinking of going to the league final Limerick vs kilkenny in pairc Ui chaoimh next week. Have you any tips for getting to and from the train station to pairc ui chaoimh. Don't fancy doing a lot of walking before or after the game..

They should reopen the ferry at Ferrybank 😁

There needs to be park & ride and train & ride to the stadium and don't let any cars on the bus route. It won't solve everything but will help.

Sense a bit of apathy amongst Limerick supporters for League Final, are Limerick supporters spoilt at this stage?

I'll wait for the championship, cork is an awkard drive, its Easter Sunday some of the excuses been trotted out. Be still far more Limerick than Kilkenny there i'm sure. All pundits seem to have Limerick winning Sunday , be interesting

Hard to know with a league team. Very strong team wether it's the championship one or not.

LIMERICK: Nickie Quaid; Sean Finn, Dan Morrissey, Barry Nash; Diarmaid Byrnes, Declan Hannon, Kyle Hayes; Darragh O'Donovan, Barry Murphy; Gearoid Hegarty, Cian Lynch, Cathal O'Neill; Aaron Gillane, Seamus Flanagan, Peter Casey.

SUBS: David McCarthy, Conor Boylan, Mike Casey, Ronan Connolly, Colin Coughlan, Adam English, Richie English, Tom Morrissey, Shane O'Brien, Aidan O'Connor, Donnacha Ó Dálaigh.

I think that's 13 of your strongest team on Sunday, obviously WOD back in and Tom Morrissey starts every day of the week for me, toss up between O'Neill and Flanagan for the last forward spot although i don't know who plays in the FF line if Hegarty, Lynch, O'Neill and T Morrissey all start.

Ide have Casey over Morrissey in the backs but it's very very fine margins as to who is the better of the two.

Can't believe how some here think Kilkenny are Limerick's closest challengers. Relying on aging players for inspiration and nothing coming through from the underage ranks. Shame on Dublin and Wexford for not being able to push them harder in Leinster.

Yeah, there has been strange stuff from Kilkenny such as constant assertions that Richie Hogan needs to come back when his day is done. They are in a dilemma with Walter Walsh and TJ Reid in that both, for ball winning capacity (albeit neither will trouble the scoreboard too much), are probably better than what they have but are at the end of their days too. If they go without them they are weaker in the short run, go with them and they are weaker in the long run. Padraig Walsh is finished as well.

The positive from their perspective is that they are nearly guaranteed qualification through Leinster, and you wouldn't put a farthing on Galway beating them in the Leinster final based on recent experience. They could end up in an All Ireland final again without needing to be the "second best" team. But in a way that's also a negative as it perpetuates high expectations and encourages the manager to defer confronting the difficult transition ahead.

But you are correct that the idea that they are Limerick's closest challengers is not based on reality and is probably heavily influenced by the fact that they managed to come out of an All Ireland final which they never led with honour intact. If Brian Cody looked at that match as a genuine sign of how close they were to Limerick he'd have stayed on for another year to win another title. Instead I think he left knowing that this would be as good as his exit was likely to be.

They have pinned their hopes on a manager with a very limited CV who was fortunate enough to win a single All Ireland under-20 title. And Shefflin has shown little enough with Galway to imply that he is a tactical genius waiting to return.

Kilkenny are firmly in the pack, with every sign that all the strong counties are at least as good as them. Even an in decline Wexford could beat them if they are willing to wire into them in Wexford Park. Dublin cannot be trusted to deliver a consistent enough performance. They seem to find a variety of ways to lose to Kilkenny. Difficult to see how they will get the hardness of attitude to beat Kilkenny rather than being honoured to play them. But today was poor. Limerick's League semi-final was a far more intense affair for long periods. Kilkenny are vulnerable against many opponents at this point and in no way an obvious second best team. It's a reality that will take many people in many counties time to process but it is a reality.

Limerick's 14th League title, now level with Cork. Tipp and Kilkenny level on 19.

For what it's worth the only county to win 5 leagues in a row. way back in the 1930's.

Thanks bud , great win but remember last year , ye kinda done the grand slam on us , screw treaty united or young Munster it was that bad !!!