A Clare loss and cork could end there season before the end of April.
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On what basis? Ennis is a notoriously tough place to go in the Round Robin. Tipp in 2019 is the only occasion where I can think of Clare not turning up in Ennis and obviously that was before Brian Lohan. In the 4 championship meetings in 2022 and 23’ the teams were so evenly matched. A draw in Ennis in 22’, Limerick after extra-time in the Munster Final, Clare won in Limerick in the 23’ round robin and lost the final by a point. There’s very little to suggest that Limerick will destroy them.
I know Clare don’t like going down there but I think they’re a really dangerous team this year. They’ve added to it and Tony Kelly is still to come back into it.
Lohan has done some job with them to be fair. They’ve a panel now.
Those Munster finals were like training games for Limerick, their performances after in knock out matches showed that,
They won’t want a repeat of last year when they were minutes away from exiting the championship, they’ll be primed for this.
And the fact that they’re a miles better team than Clare 
There’s still doubts persisting about Clare because of their underwhelming record in Croke Park but they’ll be seriously competitive with anyone in the tight confines of Ennis. David Fitzgerald is starting to resemble Hego more and more, they have a magician in Tony Kelly who’s usually afforded space and time by Limerick and crucially Conor Cleary is fit this year so they don’t have to rely on Cian Nolan at full-back. Diarmuid Ryan reminds me of Byrnes with his long range shooting. They’re the second best team in the country and it’ll be a worrying sign for the chasing pack if they can’t rattle Limerick on the first day out.
The worry would be an injury to John Conlon at centre-back. Would David McInerney do a job there in such a case?
They’re no more dangerous than the other challengers
I can’t remember the last time there were so many questions marks over how the team will lineout between fitness and form. Quaid Nash Byrnes WOD Hegarty Morrissey Gillane the only definite picks I think, plus CON but where will he play. Gotta trust Kiely and kinnerk will get it right based on training.
Time will tell but they’re better than Galway, Tipp just don’t have it, Cork aren’t ready yet and are still worryingly reliant on most of the same players, Kilkenny are admirably gallant but a couple of players short of winning the big one. Clare just need to produce a statement performance in Croker to really copper-fasten their credentials.
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Put up the team there along with how many proper matches they’ve played this year. A lot of key players with very little hurling done.
We are going to go up to Ennis and we are going to walk all over the cunts
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I’ll refer to my excel spreadsheet and get back to you.
Is Tony Kelly back from injury can someone tell me
‘I tink, I tink, I tink’
No context with what he’s saying. Pure guff
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He was an instinctive hurler in fairness to him on his day.
Think Leen at corner back is a weakness for clare. Mossy got 4 points on him Saturday in 35 minutes.
Flanagan or Hayes should be better options there. Taylors pace is a loss for them in midfield.
Keoghan got one off Leen, one off Hayes and one off Diarmuid Ryan and the other straight from throw in from a broken bit of play.
The one off Leen was probably the one he had to work the hardest for
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You know as well as I do that all that stuff goes out the window when these two clash. You can do all the analysis you want but come 2 pm Sunday week Rhyme nor reason won’t call it
The game in Ennis hinges upon the percentages, and the pressing question arises: to what extent does Limerick’s hunger manifest this year after an extensive all conquering journey? Can we muster the requisite fervor to scale the pinnacle of intensity again? Conversely, Clare loom as voracious contenders, akin to rabid dogs harboring an insatiable thirst for the crimson essence of Limerick’s dominance. Mud hut dwelling hurling peasants resolutely aiming to dismantle the ascendancy of the sport’s reigning monarchs.
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Chat GPT, write me a preview of Clare/Limerick in the style of a poundshop Kevin Cashman?
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Mud hut dwelling hurling peasants 
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