[quote=“Mac, post: 793331, member: 109”]We’ll beat Carlow and after Laois shock Clare we’ll beat them to get to a Q final where we’ll play Cork. Cronin will be injured again and after bowing to pressure and recalling Sean Og and Gardiner after a hockeying in the Munster Final the squad is in turmoil. We scrape a win despite Cork doing their best to lose the game to spite the recalled players. We play our old rivals KK in the semis where after too many hard sessions their entire team is crocked. We manage to pull together one of those once in a decade performances to win despite KK fielding mostly a minor and U21 team. Cody announces his retirement.
Meanwhile Limerick coast through the Munster final before coming up against a Galway side that have their annual choke. Its all set for a repeat of the 96 final.
All the talk is of Kirbys finger and revenge for 96. Tom Ryan comes out and says the piece on Laochra Gael was all shite and that he believes Dunne did it on purpose. Henry Martin agrees on Up For the Match after his slowmo video goes viral.
Before the game starts, Dunne runs onto the middle of the pitch in his hurley carrier bib and plants a wexford flag in the ground to get the crowd going. In a dramatic twist, Andrew Shore is recalled after suspension to start his first game since being stabbed by Conor McCormack. Limerick waltz into an early lead and lead at half time by 5 points. Dunne responds by introducing the recently recalled Gizzy Lyng at half time and puts him in full forward with Podge Doran and Jack Guiney in the corners. The backs are instructed to lump high balls on top of the full back line.
Unable to deal with this bombardment, Limerick concede 2 early goals and the second half continues in this nip tuck manner. With the scores level entering injury time Wexford get a free inside the Limerick half. With 1 substitution left, Dunne takes the unusual step of bringing himself on instead of Paul Morris and pushes Jack Guiney out of the way to take the free. The ball sails over the bar and Barry Kelly blows the game up. Dunne rips off his number 28 jersey to reveal a t-shirt with a picture on the front of the point of contact between his hurl and Kirbys finger from 96.
On the back it simply reads - Liam Dunne, breaking Limerick hearts (and fingers), since 1996.[/quote]
I love you Mac.
The Gizzy Ling thing is a bit far fetched though.
