I watched the Sunday game last night but didnāt watch the match back yet. How many points did Galway literally gift Limerick through mistakes or poor execution? Somewhere close to what the final margin was Iād say. We canāt keep relying on that. Limerick ālooked likeā the stronger team for much of the game but didnāt translate it to the scoreboard.
Galway going away from that game would have to think that the fee mistakes gifting a few points to Limerick along with losing Mannion and canning more than account for the final margin.
Yeah yeah you canāt boil a game down to a couple of incidents and say if X then Y. But thereās something to it too, Limerick are riding their luck and scraping through games and are not as dominant against good teams as they are made out to be based on the hidings handed to poor teams like Clare and Tipp.
Think Limerick will bring Liam Mac home too easy, too strong for a plucky Waterford, hope Iām wrong as Iād love to see a close game but honestly canāt see it
It was a lot more than the winning margin. The score was tied at 23 apiece on 75 minutes and all four Limerick points thereafter came from Galway turnovers, two from poor Harte deliveries and two from the keeper.
they made a lot of mistakes becuase they were put under savage pressure all over the field
They had 5 forwards and we squeezed up on the puck out in the second half - the goalie looked up and he saw absolutely fuck all and was trying to put the ball through the eye of needle to fellas in midfield. If he was going short to his corner backs they were getting squeezed.
Limericks 24th point was from a puckout - the ball broke to Casey and he tipped it onto the runniing Tom Morrissey
25th Harte went to play a ball up the line from a short puckout and had no option - hit in to an area where Limerick had two men on one and pressure coming from Breen - again Casey picked up the ball and played it to Breen for a nice score
Limericks 26th point the goalie misplaced a puckout trying to thread a needle
Limericks 27th point Harte played a ball up the line to a Galway man who actually tried to control it but Hegarty pressured the touch and won a free.
Yes on watching it back youāre correct only 3 of the 4 were from Galway turnovers, the 24th Limerick point came from the blatant charge in the back from Hegarty that was missed.
My point to glas was Galway turnovers led to far more than the winning margin, which is accurate.
I donāt think you can just say they were bad Galway errors and leave it at that. They were errors, no doubt about that but even when there was not direct pressure applied, the Limerick setup was quite good.
We had completely suffocated their long puckout option and because of their sweeper, they were finding it hard to win any long deliveries; Byrnes & Kyle were gobbling up ball and Nash & Dan also picked up a fair amount of loose ball.
Limerick letting poor distributors have the ball is a tactic in itself; if the likes of Harte or Burke or Mac concede possession because they donāt have any handy options to pass to; thatās not a shock that that happens. How many puckouts did Mannion receive? Not a whole pile, and thereās a certain amount of intention there.
Now, Waterford are obviously a different proposition entirely. Theyāll run at you from anywhere. And even if you turn them over four, five, six times; theyāll keep coming and coming, and they have fellas off the shoulder. None of which are things that Galway offered in all honesty. But they have their own weaknesses in defence as Kilkenny showed at times.
Two horrendous turnovers from Harte not under a pile of immediate pressure either apart from on the clock. Usually heās very tidy with his distribution. To be honest I think he was just bollocksed at that stage. Tired body and mind means sloppy passes means turnovers.