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
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 âbring back Codyâ 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 Codyâs reign. Had Dublin drawn with Galway in last yearâs 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 âWe won 11 All Irelandsâ. 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 â and Paul Murphy â 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 Codyâs house on the Monday morning and told him: âBrian, you are not just representing yourself on that sideline. You are representing Kilkenny. Cop yourself on.â
Kilkenny hurling now faces far choppier waters than Kilkenny hurling faced in late 1998. This reality is every bit as much Brian Codyâs 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.
Your hatred of Limerick is something else, itâs 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 youâre not wumming, youâre the only one here that hasnât once acknowledged LKs displays over the last 5 years, just a continuous stream of bile about performance enhancing drugs, âfundamentally uselessâ etc etc.
