Brilliant 2nd half performance from Limerick, driven on by the half back line.
Congrats to the @Limericks, amazing times you are having.
Laughed listening to the radio when stuck in traffic yesterday (only got parked up at 2.55pm).
Mullane et al were talking away when suddenly Mullane said âthat canât be fair surelyâ as the Limerick backroom team began installing their own camera beside the RTE one on the gantry.
With all due respect to Laois, Limerick wouldnât have the same historical hang ups and baggage with Laois as they would with Wexford.
Limerick beat Carlow as well in Netwatch Dr Cullen Park in the 2018 Preliminary Quarter Final so that particular box has been ticked too.
Whatâs wrong with you today?, your usual trope about us is absent, get a grip and get back on messageđ
Laois made Tipperary, @peddlerscross knows that
I reckon if youâd asked any Limerick fan before 2018 theyâd have said theyâd be happy to see Limerick win even one all Ireland in their lifetime.
Four in a row!!!
@Tassotti and myself called this all about about this Kilkenny team. 90s vintage. Game but so very very limited. We knew limerick would do it pulling up and so they did
I felt like I was repeating myself at times
What was most disappointing was how little the Limerick lads believed in their own immortals.
In terms of combatting this nearly all conquering Limerick team (as @ChairmanDan rightly pointed out, they keep strategically avoiding Wexford), teams must develop some new strategy for when their half back line plus Nash get completely on top & the 8-12 axis sprint back to hoover up loose ball on the ground. I think there was only one puck out type Kilkenny rolled out to enable them to bypass the Limerick half back line in the second half.
A traditional puck out was gobbled up.
A short one to a full back line player & a lorry upfield still didnât breach the hbl against the wind because the Limerick team had pressed up.
A one two with the keeper was the same as above.
Yes, the only one that worked was when Murphy hit somebody retreating to the KK hbl in a pocket of space between the 5, 6 & 8 positions or the 7,6 & 9 slots on the other side. What it needed then was that player to carry it laterally & pop it off to another player running across them at pace in the opposite direction. Like a rubby move or something. That player could then free himself around 50 yards out to play the ball into the full forward line. The Reid brothers combined for this type of puck out at one stage & it might have happened another time too.
But I think the only way to have any chance of sustained puck out success against them is to drop even more men back into your own half & tempt the Limericks to push everyone forward. Would they do that? Maybe Kilkenny could have had all 15 players inside their own 45 for puck outs & tried to launch a Flying V column upfield like in the Mighty Ducks movies? This is something Davy Fitz might work on this winter.
Murphy is a great shot-stopper, one of the best Iâve ever seen, but itâs been obvious for a long time that he has no intermediate puckout. He can only either give it to a defender on the 20m line or langer it long down the field.
The modern day goalkeeper needs that in his locker.
Kilkenny are at much the same level as Tipp, Galway, Wexford and Dublin in reality.
So called observers on here bigging them up as if Cody was holding them back was just nonsense.
Lads are getting totally carried away with Limerick yesterday too. Obviously once the inhalers kicked in there was only going to be one winner but the fact they couldnt create a goal chance against a hapless Kilkenny speaks volumes.
Watching it again here. Jesus Huw Lawlor is some animal
Thatâs more like itđ
Wexford and Limerick have 2 wins each from the league battles during the John Kiely era. Stirring home wins for Wexford in 2017 and 22â. Limerick stormed fortress *Innovate in 2019 and won this years meeting with BDE very much in experimental/damaged limitations mode with ROC as sweeper. With that in mind, It would be fitting if this widely inconsistent Wexford team took down this behemoth Limerick side. Preferably with Buff Egan playing an inspirational speaker role akin to little Michael from Kerry rousing the troops before the 2019 league victory over Tipp when Davy was in charge.
*Since changed to fortress Chadwicks.
A 3/10 effort really.
A bit of perspective is sometimes needed.
There was one passage of play in the second half where Limerick were on top and there was four (4) throw balls shamelessly played in succesion before the ball was played in and Gillane was fouled. It was real RIP Hurling stuff.
I got a kick out if David Reidyâs lovely flick up down by the corner flag in the second half but i have absolutely no time for this running up the field throwing the ball to each other and then run into contact to win a free. Diarmuid Byrnes scored something like seven long range frees which summed it up. Thatâs not hurling at all.
There was one half goal chance at the start of the second half. Flanagan pinged a ball from the sideline to the square. Gillane miscontrolled it with the stick and it flew about 15 yards away from him. If he had controlled it it was probably a goal. Other than that they werenât even trying to create goal chances
Youâre very bitter for a youngfella. Youâd want to let go of that. It will make you sick in the long run
Limerick need to beat Dublin to cement their legacy.
Dublinâs 100% record against Limerick in championship games since Justin McCarthy departed the Limerick set up remains intact.
Youâre rightly back on track now, keep it coming