I met my old team mate Squid outside the Croke Park hotel after the game.
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Limerick before the Galway semi final this year were on a run of 9 consecutive championship matches that were 1 score games before returning to 2020 and 2021 levels of blowing teams away once they hit Croke Park in the semi final and final against Galway and Kilkenny.
Last year they were dominant in early round robin matches but started to fade a bit in the last 2 games of the Munster campaign against the physicality of Clare and were very close to getting caught against both Galway and Kilkenny when they hit Croke Park.
This year it was a role reversal and they looked like a team that were timing their run for the business end in Croke Park. It was the earlier rounds of the round robin blitz were they looked vulnerable, a bit jaded and brushed very close to elimination. Waterford beating Tipperary unexpectedly and Limerick scrapping into the Munster Final changed the dynamic of their season too.
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Good morning from Limerick.
A grand place to be today.
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His mam is Welsh afaik.
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My only issue with Keenan yesterday was that he made a balls of full time.
He should have just let the puck out be taken and blow it up then. As it was, it took a few seconds for everyone to realise it was over.
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It made no odds to the result but I thought he was poor enough yesterday. Limerick got a nice few breaks from him.
There was a quick puckout he allowed which was bizarre about 10 minutes into the second half during limericks run of scores after the goal and there was easily 6 or 7 players still inside the 21 when taken, I think Hegarty got a point directly from it.
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Very annoying when refs do this. Iād class it with umpires not signalling scores before they raise the flag. Half the crowd donāt know if itās a score or not for several seconds.
Kiely had just made a big show about Kilkenny being allowed take quick puck outs after 2 or 3 Limerick puck outs had been whistled back.
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He did. He gave the linesman dogās abuse
Youāre after winning a four in a row and you have a problem with how the referee blew the final whistle?
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He ruined their perfect day.
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Second half was a tidal wave. I wasnāt particularly worried at half time, the breeze was strong, worth 6-7 points, and we only trailed by 3. Despite only hurling in what could best be described as āspurtsā.
I knew we would come with a purple patch in third quarter. But itās how they responded to second KK goal that was most pleasing. This team dont do panic.
One thing that Kilkenny messed up in were their second half puckouts. Murphy persisted in going long with almost every one of them, despite Limerickās half back line gobbling them up time after time. I understand we pushed up on KK short puckouts, but surely he could have looked to ping a 30 yard quick pass to Deegan or Richie Reid. As it was, launching it down on top of Byrnes, OāDonoghue and Hayes was pure folly.
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The narrative that Kilkenny were better than last year turned out to be utter nonsense anyway. The true connoisseurs of the game knew this in advance.
They could do with getting Cody back in charge. Heād be worth about 6 points fo them. Eoin Murphy was trying to manage the team in the second half and tell Dr.Tadhg Crowley what to do, but it didnāt really work at all.
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He signaled to Murphy to puck the ball out to him. Murphy threw the ball 5 yards out in front of himself and threw a mini stropp by refusing to puc it out. He left Keenan with no choice
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Cody knew, he must have been happy driving home yesterday bar @codegreen waving and beeping at him that he avoided a further blemish on his legacy.
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Full time should be blown when a defender on the winning team has the ball coming out of defence.
McGeeney 2002 or Tom Condon 2018 would be classics of this genre.
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Ya Iām absolutely livid over it
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That team yesterday definitely surpassed the 2019 team as the worst Kilkenny team Iāve ever seen anyway.
So limited.
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@peddlerscross as usual nailed it a long time back. Called it all summer that this was a bang average Kilkenny team. Theyāre Wexford standard essentially as I said on Saturday. The fact that Kilkenny have only recorded 1 win in regulation time from their last 7 championship meetings against Wexford since 2017 (and that by just 1 point in Nowlan Park in 2018) bears that out.
As @Bandage has also alluded to, this Limerick team still has to cross the final frontier of recording a championship win over Wexford. Itās a bit like the great Australian cricket team of the 90ās and early 00ās having to cross the final frontier of recording a series win in India, which they eventually duly achieved in 2004, a win which still ranks as the only Australia test series win in India since 1968.
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They havenāt beaten Laois either. @myboyblue will tell you that this Limerick team is at nothing until they beat Laois in a championship game. Tipp beat them in 2019 making them the hall of farmers
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