Amazing game, sums up what it means to be a Gael. The joy amongst the limericks fans at full time was a sight to gladden your heart but letâs not forget the Galway team, looked beaten but the warrior spirit meant they fought to the death and their fans were gracious in defeat,real hurling people
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Just read an interview with Dave Moriarty there. I avoided the papers before the game as I thought itâd fuck me up for today.
Limerick seemed like a really backward set up in 2007. Amazing that they made the final.
He refers to the roar also. Richie Bennis thought the roar wouldnât be a problem today as there was 70k at the semi final and it wouldâve been load then. Ignoring the fact that there was 80k are Limerick Waterford semi final in 07.
The fucking roar. For fuck sake.
No pitch invasion was a bit disappointing.
Yeah Owens was very poor but Gavin can scarcely criticise. Very poor ref who always fit in seamlessly with Brian Codys game plan.
Gavin O Mahoney would have been there or thereabouts on that Limerick team given paucity of defensive options.
Iâm not sure if you told me a few years ago that a team that finished with Richie McCarthy, Dowling, Hannon, Lynch, Mulcahy etc would win an All Ireland Iâd have believed it. Mulcahy got the winner, Dowling got a vital goal and Richie McCarthy hurled like a man possessed. Hannon and Lynch were contenders for mom. Itâs an incredible transformation from bring 4th or 5th best in Munster. I know they have been infused with young talent and have real athletes like Morrissey brothers, Hegarty and Byrneâs but its a remarkable shift and also in winning probably hardest all Ireland ever won. One which would expose any chink in the armour.
The game itself was a slow burner. It had the makings of a classic and the score should have been around 3-23 to 2-25. The wides were draining and hard to watch. Limerick came very close to snatching defeat from the jaws of victory and it would have left other defeats in the haypenny place. Iâm relieved they didnt throw it away to be honest as it would have followed them around for a long time. Dowling summed it up when he said he was praying towards the end of the game. Ironically enough there was an indian man called Green boots who died just as he was reaching the summit of Everest. Died in the deathzone when he could nearly reach out and touch it. That was nearly Limerick today.
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Itâs unnatural the size of some of them. They are like big strong rubby men.
At the end of the day tho good fast wristy hurlers are hard bet.
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Love you guys
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The Universe is at peace tonight
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Ok here we go
This is really written for my ould fella who deserved this day and ill try and portray it thru id say what he was feeling as a limerick man and its actually taken me years to identify with to be honest
I was a fervent cork hurling supporter that must have been even more difficult for him but it shows the power a woman can have on a child ( I would add that I began supporting the limerick footballers in 1991 after Philip Danaher nearly beat Kerry in Killarney but in hurling it was cork
I remember a defeat of waterford in the park in 1985 on a may day when I was given a wham bar to keep quiet but I would say the first real experience of what it meant to follow limerick was on a grassy bank in ennis in 1986 when a defeat to clare saw my uncle roar out that heâd never go to watch the bastards again, that was what I took from that occasion, my first communion day a year later was that famous 3-11 all draw v cork in thurles when Kieran Kingston banged in a few and we were in thurles a week later to see John Fenton score one from 45 yards with a groundstroke,
1988 was a hammering by Tipp in the rain in the park an occasion that I asked my dad to buy me a tipp headband â now this was a decision made by a nine year old who clearly must have been afraid of what he saw even at that age and either hated his father so much that he pestered him until he got that or else maybe it was the sheer passion of what he saw scared him somewhat , its interesting really, watching limerick wasnât pretty
89,90,91,trips in the car, first round beating- maybe some hope in 92 a win over Waterford but a beating by cork in the park culminating in a car crash on the way home â I think we had a league final win over tipp when anthody carmody was sent off, âcome on the 14 menâ, â14 v 16â, referees were hated, Willie Horgan was an absolute pariah, but again a theme, âthey wrote of us, etcâ
I think 1994 was actually the single most deflating sporting occasion I was at, that train home was lads in absolute silence- the odd thing was that I think I was a little, like I never wanted limerick to win for some reason, I donât think he deserved that to be honest, we were watching from the canal end, I was 16 but ill never forget the absolute silence as it ended and the roars from the hill, it was like been in a trance watching all this unfold to be homest.
I didnât go in 96 as I was getting serious at soccer at the time and the night before I got 20 mins in a league cup game against well, Limerick City in Rathbane,
I remember that been equally defalting tho that defeat, he came home at about 11 on the train that night just shattered â youâ wonder how he took it all in really,
Literally shag all happened until 2001 and that Foley sideline in the Park, to me its probably the greatest game I was at I think- we discussed it here before but ive never seen such theater really and I look back on it as the greatest game I have seen and the manner in which it was won, Damien Fitzhenry tho put them in their place in august
And so it continued- beaten by offally in 2003, enough about 2007 but at least there was the semi final, 2008 in wexford, 2009 christ, 2010, jesus, they blamed cusack for poisoning the playersâŚ
It went on , oh yeah it went on- we went to kilkenny in the rain in 2014 and fuck it I think we became friends after that
This years semi final I decided enough was enough and cheered for limerick, today with 10 to go I thought it literally was 1994 again it was uncanny, Mulcahy;s point to break the siege was unreal âŚ
The man didnât get to see it tho but maybe I need to ensure my young lad does and that he knows what went on, I know, there is more to it really, maybe weâll start going to limerick games in the future- maybe not ? but if we do it will be to support a noble cause and carry on a tradition if nothing else
The support the limerick hurling team have is unreal â it must have been pure hardship all this
Duignan said on 67 minutes this isnât over yet as he knew and he was almost right, to the lads who actually genuinely supported limerick thru the shite since 1986 I literally have no idea who this must make ye feel, but go and fucking enjoy it anyway
End of twee post
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What fucking vomit, cop onto yourself you big child
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ah hereâŚ
when in rome, etc
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lads
on galway
was canningâs efforts to get them back in to this one of the all time great croke park performances?
he carried a team in the last 20 minutes
limerick were due an implosion , ok we know, he was unreal
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Becky is lovely. Her da was in the cycling club with me.
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how does herself take this?
will you roll in now with a bang of booze wearing a straw hat and sheâs driven demented all day in the inlaws?
He got handed three balls in space after other lads won them and put them over the bar and hit a nice free
POTY
he also sunk a 21 yard free or semi penalty or what not and was unerringly accurate under immense pressure
he was outstanding
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Hup outta that.
He was an irrelevance for most of the game and didnât win a ball all day
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no,
Carter had a belter earlier when he was on about lads becoming heroes or something tho- he posted it at crica 0800