All Ireland Hurling Championship 2018

[gilgamboa]

Some of the comments earlier in this thread about Dowling, then the Dow, Dowling again after the Clare game, and the Dow again (for now) are gas

[anon78624367]

lads going on about whether the stopping of a goal was a flick or a save, whether Mulcahy or Coleman is taller and who shouldered who. How big Mike Casey is.

And these are all non Limerick people.

This place would fall to shit without Limerick hurling and it’s well you know it so fuck up about snide liking posts from March and shit and know ye’re place

AI Champions 2018. Close the thread.

[anon61956325]

Shannon, Garryowen and Munsters get about 600 between them on match day… rugby is dead in Limerick.

[JonSnow]

What is dead may never die

[balbec]

We shut the place down for two weeks before the final. We can do it again.

[JonSnow]

[Ashman]

Without Lk hurling this place was reduced to discussing Celtic v Shortbread Thistle or Spurs new stadium .

[anon61956325]

It was pitiful…

[Julio_Geordio]

@Raylan

@Aristotle

Harnedy’s chance was quite similar to Dowling’s goal in the final.

Dowling taking hip and whip hurling to the next level

[Watch_The_Break]

@Aristotle

Cleary did alright at full-back in the League, I thought? You’d imagine he wouldn’t have struggled as badly with Glynn.

A lot of Clare supporters seem to be very harsh on Cleary & thought that switch was all about getting McInerney into a position where he could influence the game more. The fact is that McInerney was very disappointing at centre-back and didn’t offer as much as Cleary; he’s a lovely hurler but centre-back requires a lot of discipline. Midfield if you could find a centre-back? Certainly has the legs.

Cleary did alright although he doesn’t really have the ruthlessness in attacking the ball required either. The criticism is mainly due to him being from West Clare and not being from a traditional hurling area. Just snobbery really.

Midfield is a conundrum for us. Don’t think DMc would work there for similar reasons to his failure at 6. For all his hurling, and his size, he doesn’t have impose himself on the game. We have several lads who seem like good midfielders on paper, Kelly, David Fitz, Morey. None of them are coming up to the mark there. Malone despite his limitation nailed down a spot there because unlike the rest he was willing to get in the trenches, instead of floating around looking to run onto a loose ball.

[Raylan]

The 2018 season as encapsulated by Yellowbelly.ie

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[Ambrose_McNulty]

The O’Donnell one should have the ball in his hand.

[Raylan]

And Daithi’s two arms around him maybe

[Ashman]

The real moment of the year was the Shanagher chance .

[anon61878697]

Champions!!!

[Julio_Geordio]

He was also asked to do a football one

Cc @Little_Lord_Fauntleroy

[Massey]

https://youtu.be/ftlfPb0gyxI

[Cheasty]

@mickee321

in 2010 i attended an “extremely attractive double header” in the vast surrounds of croke park,
The appetite was “whet” cc @Sidney as Cork played Antrim in the opening salvo before tipp beat galway in the second game
it was a horrible, muggy day with heavy grey skies, in true “double header” fashion we spent the entire first half of the first game getting up and down in our seat to allow patrons enter and leave- we got so sick of it i think we didnt come back in until there was at least 10 minutes gone in the second game and just stayed outside drinking .
it was an utterly forgettable day and and an enormous waste of money and time

I’ve just spent 90 seconds giggling in exceedingly silly fashion at this exceedingly brilliant post.

[iron_mike]

Jayses 2018, if we knew then what we know now eh?

[Biff_Egan]

We’ve won 5 of the 6 All Irelands since hurling was invented. Unreal!