Iām not sure whether he was injured or it was just tactical based on his form thus far. But yeah I think heāll start unless heās well off it in training. As regards Cian, it doesnāt matter what number you put on his shirt. Heāll drift where he wants to. The one advantage we have is that Cian only played a five minute cameo against Cork last year so for Pat Ryan itās another headache to deal with. As I stated in my post, Cork will have no option but to throw the kitchen sink at us. If we can live with them for 50/55 minutes then the likes of Boylan, English and OāDailigh will freshen it up a bit going down the stretch
Cork will go for it, we will have 4 or 5 on our bench that will keep the intensity high in the last 15 mins where i reckon weāll pull away
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Alan Connolly will take watching. A job for Dan or Finn?
Cork looked devastating for periods against Clare. We will need to defend well and close down space. The pace in their team is their best asset.
Our pace is a bit of a myth now and a stereotype if anything.
We do play an attractive brand of hurling but apart from Fitzgibbon and maybe Connolly I fail to see our blistering pace from midfield up.
OāFlynn, Kingston and JOC are lightning alright. Two of which will probably feature at some stage.
Barrett is fairly quick too.
Fitzgibbon is lightning and Jack OāConnor is even quicker than him.
ROF is probably the only one that has a few more strings to his bow but heās not been on in-form so far, obviously just coming back from injury.
ROF is very quick but as pointed out not likely to start. JOC isnt really fancied by Pat Ryan despite being clubmen.
TJ Ryan says on the Dalo pod that DOD or Mike Casey wonāt be back for Limerick.
DOD might get mins v Waterford hopefully
Working hard tonight but really struggling on our own puckout.
Only one delivery into the full-forward line really and got a score from it. A few aimless wides from distance. Tipp have a few dangerous inside forwards alright.
Team out tonight presumably?
Serious defending from Limerick. Playing well here.
Not a bad half tbh. Working really really hard. The backs, as backs, have been excellent.
We donāt really seem set up to get good ball into our full-forward line though. When they do win it, itās too far from goal whereas Tipp have been able to get slightly better ball in but our backs have been excellent.
Gave up a few very soft scores early on but after going 5 down have grown into it & been the better team since.
Decision-making in attack is the real killer. Now, you will always get that with 16/17-year-olds but, at the end of the day, thatās what will separate the best players from the rest and thatās where they need coaching. Taking shots that arenāt on instead of passing to the man in space, looking for the pass instead of shooting when free, shooting from way out instead of delivering the ball, all that kind of stuff.
But youād have to be happy with the work rate & spirit against what is supposed to be an excellent Tipp team.
Have the wind in the second half too.
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Great to see a bit of fight in them and far more direct at getting the ball forward even if not much of an end result.
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The Dow picks up a yellow.
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Superb defending again.
Wasteful in attack though, have had more chances than Tipp but still behind.
Wides absolutely killing us. All over them.
Fought very hard but just lacked quality in attack. Had way more chances but that decision-making in attack let us down. Couple of Tipp forwards had that bit more quality.
Thought Dennehy at 3 was very good, Cosgrave at 6 is excellent, Enright at 7. The other backs all defended very well too. OāConnor at 12 won some great ball but his hurling is a little slow. Murphy ay 10 played well. Both midfielders were good. Kearney is definitely lively but maybe takes too much out of the ball. Didnāt really feed the other inside men at all. And just that delivery to the inside line or working it to the man in space wasnāt quite at the level.
But there was a performance against a team who very well may win the All Ireland. Disappointing it took until the last game to reach that level and still ended up in a defeat.
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What was the score?
13-12
2 goals in 4 games is pretty poor.
I think DODs year is over for Limerick.will be lucky to see club action apparently.