I thought it was a very good contest myself. Limerick defenders were more comfortable on the ball than Cork’s - Cork defenders coughed up a lot of cheap scores but you’ll get a lot of that with young lads.
Both sides competed very well for dropping ball and dirty ruck ball on the ground.
As the table suggests, I think there’s very little to seperate Cork, Limerick and Clare. I’d have a slight fancy for Clare to win it.
You’d have to say that Clare will never get a better chance.
No matter how bad Clare are going they will up it for limerick. they have no choice but to throw the kitchen sink at us…expecting a titanic battle…
Clare goalie was the reason they lost to Tipp so they are not that far off it. and I doubt he will play as bad two games in a row.
They’ll give it a rattle but Limerick will turn them over handy enough.
It’ll be a totally different type of game. In the 4 championship meetings since and including 2019, Limerick have scored 3 goals. In 3 of those meetings, Tony Kelly was given the freedom of park. With Hannom out I’m not sure Limerick can afford to give him that luxury on Saturday
They have no choice but to give it a rattle. I think they genuinely thought they’d beat Tipp and might have been prepared to sacrafice (if that’s the right term) the Limerick game in the sense that they would give it a shot but not empty the tank. As the possible suspension of Flannagan and Hannons injury may have forced Limerick to approach this game differently, I suspect Clares defeat to Tipp has left them with an even bigger conundrum then they were hoping for.
I could still see Clare going through despite losing their first two games. They’re better than Cork and Waterford and Limerick is their only real ‘away’ game.
Possibly. If they were to lose to limerick, I suspect it would have to be by about 6 or less. A double digit defeat could leave them chasing a minimum of a 15 point defecit and possibly needing a favour from Limerick in at least 1 or 2 of their final games.
In fairness Limerick managed to pull it off in 19 with just 2 wins. But they needed to dish out 2 heavy defeats to Waterford and Clare in order to advance
They’d be mad to give Foostering Foudie another run.
They played paudie fitz on croke park last year
I have yet to catch up on the highlights of that game, but going off what has been said on here regarding his errors, it would be some gamble.
And with Clare already a game behind where they thought they would be going into this match up they cannot afford to gamble.
Lose and lose to anything resembling another error and players would be wondering what Lohan is at and the life might get totally sucked from the remainder of the season.
Ah the poor lad deserves another run out. Shur we all have the odd bad day out
Would be bad form to throw him under the bus after a couple of mistakes. We’re all human like.
It would be weak management from Lohan to flip flop on his decision, he needs to be steadfast.
You need to back your ‘keeper.
Ah I’m looking forward to seeing Fudd in goals
Bit of a joke the Flanagan decision isn’t made by now. This should be dealt with by Monday lunch time at the latest.
They like to see which way the wind is blowing first