Totally agree, Iām sick of the Limericks at this stage, Iām going back supporting my native WH.
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Let it all out little fella
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Youāre unravelling pal, not a good look
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Heāll need a new phrase. āFundamentally unstoppableā perhaps.
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This type of shite is what has Kilkenny hurling in the current situation.
First off, Limerick won by producing what was immediately and widely acknowledged as 25 or 30 minutes of sublime hurling. I can only think of a 15 minute stretch during the 2012 AIF replay and the first half of the 2008 AIF for comparison.
Again, there were only two points in it yesterday with ten or so minutes left. Kilkenny were denied a clear 65, which would likely have left them but a point down. Limerick would have won nicely in any event but the matter is far from as black and white as the ābring back Codyā shite insists. I knew this craic would start up, because some people just love the past for its familiarity.
Yesterday, Kilkenny should have been up seven or eight points at halftime. Poor wides and a few dreadful errors by Conor Fogarty meant a three point lead at halftime. So that Kilkenny lost to an extraordinary second half performance by Limerick. I fail to see the shame in this reality. We had The Cranberries afterwards rather than the Benny Hill theme tune.
The patent reality, as results and performances indicate: Kilkenny stagnated, in wojous extent, during the last seven years of Codyās reign. Had Dublin drawn with Galway in last yearās round robin, Kilkenny would not have qualified from Leinster. By the way, seven years is nearly a third of his overall reign. What does this reality say about Cody as a manager? He did not even go into the dressingroom at halftime in the 2019 AIF.
While Limerick were trying every sort of a route towards improvement, Brian Cody and his nodding dog acolytes had no more to offer than āWe won 11 All Irelandsā. Take a look at the 2018 round robin game against Wexford. Take a look at Cody and James McGarry out on the sideline, gesticulating angrily at Eoin Murphy to go long with his puckouts. They want EM ā and Paul Murphy ā to keep giving Shaun Murphy the ball.
Cody utterly disgraced himself last year by his carry on in Salthill and after the Leinster Final. He behaved like a classless oaf. One of the key people in Kilkenny GAA was so disgusted by this carry on that he drove out, unannounced, to Codyās house on the Monday morning and told him: āBrian, you are not just representing yourself on that sideline. You are representing Kilkenny. Cop yourself on.ā
Kilkenny hurling now faces far choppier waters than Kilkenny hurling faced in late 1998. This reality is every bit as much Brian Codyās legacy as those 11 All Irelands. There was great hurling in Kilkenny before Brian Cody arrived. And there will be, hopefully, great hurling in Kilkenny again.
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For what itās worth I think Derek Lyng cuts a very impressive figure on the sideline.
Life is about timing but Iām not sure his timing is great here.
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Your hatred of Limerick is something else, itās been widely acknowledged by knowledgeable pundits including your own Nicky English that our display in the second half yesterday was up there with the best ever, yet we have to read your drivel about RIP hurling, I genuinely know youāre not wumming, youāre the only one here that hasnāt once acknowledged LKs displays over the last 5 years, just a continuous stream of bile about performance enhancing drugs, āfundamentally uselessā etc etc.
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Also is Kyle Hayes the first man to have five all Ireland medals at 25?
Pat Spillane in football would have.
Iād never heard about him not going into the dressing room at half time in 2019. Thatās fascinating.
Does he reference that in any of his motivational speeches?
Heās a complicated character.
I donāt think he can be faulted for whatever perceived issues KK have there now. He was only senior manager.
Yeah, seems like an alright sort, comes across professionally
Heās like sir Alex Ferguson. Heās from a different era and wouldnāt relate to the youth of today.
He most certainly can be. Nodding dogs is not much of a legacy.
Good luck to Limerick, all the while. A wonderful team.
First half 2021 Final also.
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Yes.
Itās essentially a patched up Kilkenny team carrying a few lads who arenāt good enough and a few lads who are over the hill.
I doubt anybody would get more out of them than him.
I know we disagree but last year imo Limerick could have won the game in the first 35 minutes. There was none of that this year.
Ah yeah but.
The senior team of today reflects the last 20 years of work by others. Cody wasnāt in charge of that.
Shefflin didnāt have time to join the nodding dogs.
Yet has time for Galway.
Genuine question. Do you actually consume a full tin of Andrews before you start posting?
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If Jason Forde had scored them it would be fine though.
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