Kilkenny are not on the same level as this Limerick team, it will take some bottle job for Limerick to loose tomorrow, thereād be a serious asterisk beside the title if Kilkenny won
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No Hannon, No Finn, No full back line cover
Lynch and Hegarty no where near previous levels. Gillane to be seriously marshalled. Flannagan hasnāt been nearly as accurate this year. We wonāt be running up 30 points.
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Weāll hit our usual 15 wides. Kilkenny too accurate for this depleted team. No cavalry on the bench to save us.
2-28 will do us.
Iād find myself nodding my head in agreement with Ursula or Michael Verneyās predictions here. I just donāt think Kilkenny have the scoring power to derail Limerick. Theyād need a similar scoreline to the 1-21 to 2-17 from the 2019 semi-final but it would take a mammoth effort to restrict this Limerick team to just 19 scores. Eddie Brennan with what could be classified as a fanciful prediction of Kilkenny scoring 3 goals and Limerick blanking but loyalties prevail.
Couple of interesting pieces in the Indo today. One delves into Aaron Gillaneās winter playing soccer in the Desmond League, including his 89th winner on his debut, lobbing a keeper from the halfway against their local rivals and getting sent off against NCW. Thereās a nice piece with Maurice Aylward too where he speaks about TJās performance against Toome in 2007. I didnāt realise Aylward was coaching Ballyhale when they were relegated in 1995? Brought them back up in 97ā. Heās still coaching into his late 70ās and led St Mullins to the Carlow Senior title last season.
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Unless they cloned jj delaney, gillane wonāt be held
Breheny is a shrewd hurling judge (as evidenced by his seminal teams of the millennium rankings) so Iām worried heās tipping Kilkenny.
As bad a Kilkenny team as has reached an All Ireland final. Theyāve no one to lay a glove on Gillane fairly. Limerick even with all of that are streets ahead of where Kilkenny are. Limerick always peak for the big day
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Itās supposed to be pissing rain too,might limit the scoring a bit more
Nobody can lay a glove on him because heās fouling the backs hurl constantly.
Heād not be the first lad to do that
Advantage Kilkenny
Thereās some great random shit in the Leader all week.
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Limerick donāt lose to Kilkenny in the rain in Croke Park
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1987
1999
2010
Limerick didnāt play in any of those matches. Youāre rattled badly here
The Semi in the pouring rain (2014??) was one of the greatest games ever
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Iām reliably informed a blood sub will be called tomorrow when Nicky pulls his contact lense stunt.