AIQF. KK in KK. Something stirring here. A poor KK maybe, but we’d never beat them. And in KK forget about it
2018 Cork Semi. Winning from a lost cause postion. Wow this team are different.
2022 AIF. Holy fuck three in a row. Against KK. And they pinned us to our collar
2021 AIF. Now ye cunts, back to back, and it had been some hardship getting everyone sorted for tickets for that.
2018 AIF. Relief, thought I’d be elated. But it was just relief, I genuinely thought I’d never see Limerick win one, and then we had. I wasn’t jumping around like a lunatic, I had my head in my hands. Especially after the bastards tried to lose the lead. I thought of Grandfather, who had instilled a passion for Limerick hurling in all his kids and passed it to me, I remembered him crying in 96 and saying he’d never see them win one another one now. He was right. I was only a young buck then. They’d been in the AIF in 94, there again in 96, I was thinking they’d win one soon. But he knew the chance was gone for that crew.
We saw some bad bad bad days. Always more bad than good. If we go down on Sunday, I’ll be disapointed but I know I’ve been privaliged to see what I have. You always want one more of course.
That round robin game against Clare that year had a similar quality.
It occurred to me there Kyle Hayes has scored possibly my two favourite Limerick Munster Final goals of all time. Obviously the “sick animal freak” goal of 2021 makes it, but the one in 2019 would be up there as well when he broke onto a Peter Casey dispossession. I was in the Town End that day and it went absolutely fucking bananas.
I know this wont go down well with the many Limerick baiters on the thread but Im genuinely less nervous about this game Sunday than I have been for any in 3/4 years. I really am in the what will be, will be zone.
The last couple of years there was a genuine anxiety of what will it feel like if we lose, or play poorly. That has happened and you know what the world is still revolving. Im 46, went to my first Limerick game in 1983 and this team have given me days I could never have dreamed of.
I think we’l win Sunday I really and genuinely do but fuck it if we dont.
Now lets go and hammer those Cork cunts
2017 Nowlan Park.
Met a dad of one of the players after it. Men against boys was the general consensus. They bullied us off tge pitch. Thats what made 12 monts later in Thurles all more pleasing.
