[QUOTE=“Breaking my balls, post: 943828, member: 2493”]Please God he will start against us on the June Weekend. His powers have been n the slide dramatically in the past few years. Always strikes me as the kind of lad that will crucify a team when things are going well, but when the team is up against it he goes hiding. Callinan is the same type of hurler with the same problem. When you hear of Tipp hoping Lar and Kelly will be ready for Limerick in the first round you start to wonder. Seeing John O’Brien come on the last day aswell. With all respect to these three excellent hurlers, i think the game has kind of passed them by at this stage, their time has come and gone.
Limerick will go to Thurles on the June weekend with zero pressure and expectations after recent events. Yet they are reigning Munster Champions having beaten Tipp and Cork last year, both convincingly. In the heat of championship with the Limerick backs breathing down the necks of the likes of Corbett, Callinan and to a certain extent Noel McGrath, you’d have to wonder will they have the stomach for the fight. Because one thing is for sure, Limerick will, no matter what has gone on.[/QUOTE]
What makes you think his talents have been on the slide for the last few years?
Is this a serious Question? What has he done since his All Ireland Final exploits against an injury ravaged Kilkenny team? He has been irrelevant since.
Kid Choc raises his head above the parapet again after his incredibly embarrassing mix up between seasons 94 and 95, on which i pulled him up and exposed him on. Made a cunt of him in fact, one could say. And then the cheek to “disagree” with my post…you never learn son do you?
The best player on the field against Kilkenny last year until he got injured. He scored 4 goals in the 2011 Munster final also. Also won the all Ireland semi against Dublin that year. In 2012 he wasn’t playing for a good bit of it but hurled well in the Munster final
Wouldn’t be overly confident in Clare’s chances against Cork, simply on the basis of Davy never producing a team that hits the ground running in Munster. You’d like to think that this group is different but the last two years wouldn’t bear that out.
It looks very even this year. Get the wrong draw and have to go to Nowlan Park or Salthill and your year could be over very early.
I dont know about looking dangerous, he finished the goal well alright. But nowhere near the player he was. And even at that he was always a man to be going well when things were going well. Kelly was always the man for Tipp, won games on his own for them and rarely if never went hiding. Callinan and Corbett are fond of a game of the oul’ hide and seek when things get a bit tough.
[QUOTE=“Breaking my balls, post: 943828, member: 2493”]Please God he will start against us on the June Weekend. His powers have been n the slide dramatically in the past few years. Always strikes me as the kind of lad that will crucify a team when things are going well, but when the team is up against it he goes hiding. Callinan is the same type of hurler with the same problem. When you hear of Tipp hoping Lar and Kelly will be ready for Limerick in the first round you start to wonder. Seeing John O’Brien come on the last day aswell. With all respect to these three excellent hurlers, i think the game has kind of passed them by at this stage, their time has come and gone.
Limerick will go to Thurles on the June weekend with zero pressure and expectations after recent events. Yet they are reigning Munster Champions having beaten Tipp and Cork last year, both convincingly. In the heat of championship with the Limerick backs breathing down the necks of the likes of Corbett, Callinan and to a certain extent Noel McGrath, you’d have to wonder will they have the stomach for the fight. Because one thing is for sure, Limerick will, no matter what has gone on.[/QUOTE]
Funnily enough I would have thought the same about lar until last year when he was having a great game until the injury. Time will tell in any case, but he was going well in a tough game and looked a real danger. Hope he continues like that this year. Except against Galway, if we make it that far.
He was by no means the best player on the pitch v KK until he got injured, dont be silly. Granted he scored 4 v Waterfoed in 2011 but Stephen Hawking would have ghosted in behind the Waterford defence for a brace of goals that day such was the incompetence of W’fords tactics. I’ll give you the Dublin one, ya bastard.
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It looks very even this year. Get the wrong draw and have to go to Nowlan Park or Salthill and your year could be over very early.[/QUOTE]
Exactly. That KK-Tipp game in Nowlan Park last year was a stormer.
He was the difference between Tipp having a chance of winning that game and having no chance and Paul Murphy had a great game in the second half after getting beaten by Lar in the first half
What’s the long range weather forecast from the Donegal postman - All Ireland campaign last year was influenced by the weather - suited teams like Clare and Cork.
[QUOTE=“Watch The Break, post: 943914, member: 260”]Wouldn’t be overly confident in Clare’s chances against Cork, simply on the basis of Davy never producing a team that hits the ground running in Munster. You’d like to think that this group is different but the last two years wouldn’t bear that out.
It looks very even this year. Get the wrong draw and have to go to Nowlan Park or Salthill and your year could be over very early.[/QUOTE]
That might not be a bad thing. If I was from Clare I’d be concerned about them winning in Munster and falling flat in a semi final after a long lay off.
Young legs make light work of qualifiers.
For the same reason it is hugely important that Kilkenny win Leinster to have any hope of winning the All Ireland.
Old legs do not make light work of qualifiers.
[QUOTE=“cluaindiuic, post: 943926, member: 258”]That might not be a bad thing. If I was from Clare I’d be concerned about them winning in Munster and falling flat in a semi final after a long lay off.
Young legs make light work of qualifiers.
For the same reason it is hugely important that Kilkenny win Leinster to have any hope of winning the All Ireland.
Old legs do not make light work of qualifiers.[/QUOTE]
as pointed out above though by @Watch The Break - a lot depends on the draw you get in a qualifier - wet Saturday night in Nowlan Park and it is very likely good night Clare
[QUOTE=“cluaindiuic, post: 943926, member: 258”]That might not be a bad thing. If I was from Clare I’d be concerned about them winning in Munster and falling flat in a semi final after a long lay off.
Young legs make light work of qualifiers.
For the same reason it is hugely important that Kilkenny win Leinster to have any hope of winning the All Ireland.
Old legs do not make light work of qualifiers.[/QUOTE]
Hence my early season prediction that Clare will win munster, but lose the semi. Though the long break may not affect them as much as other teams. They have a lot of depth and huge competition for certain places so a v b games during the layoff should be competitive.
The qualifier games between the beaten provincial semi-finalists are almost always won by the home team. Only a few exceptions over the last five or six years that I can think of.
On the other hand the long layoff thing makes a certain amount of sense but how many teams could you really say have been undone by it?
Didn’t Offaly beat Limerick in the GG circa 2007/8, Galway beat Clare in Ennis in 2009, and I can remember Cork beating Limerick in the GG ( late point) circa 2008. I think the long lay off is more likely to upset a team who has not recently won something …
hype etc., otherwise I would agree it has not been hugely decisive. Wat did beat Tipp one year 2008?, but they were pretty close in any case, and I remember Clare beating Waterford in 2002. I suspect in the current climate where teams are much closer matched the side coming through the qualifiers may have an advantage…