Limerick GAA - All-Ireland senior hurling champions 2018

Ambrose_McNulty · June 13, 2018, 8:31am

Have some respect for your father.

anon32894817 · June 13, 2018, 8:32am

Kyle Hayes created four goal scoring chances on Sunday which at this level is very rare for any player in one game.

anon32894817 · June 13, 2018, 8:43am

That Hegarty goal was one of the best we’ve scored in recent years in championship. The way Kyle delivers the angled cross field ball into space, Flanagan checks his man and ensures the ball beats him knowing full well he has the pace to beat his man and the corner back Is already in the wrong position. Flanagan then has the presence of mine to hold the ball up and weight the perfect pass to hego who times his run to perfection and then checks inside and finishes it off low into the corner. Just so so good. So much skill, vision, pace, power and team work involved.

anon78624367 · June 13, 2018, 8:47am

starts around 0:58

Hegarty takes about 10 steps.

anon32894817 · June 13, 2018, 8:52am

Well according to that massive cork wanker donal o Grady once you are shouldered you are a loud take as many steps as you like.

iron_mike · June 13, 2018, 8:54am

dodgy_keeper:

As far as I can see things are going swimmingly but still early days.

Even last year when results were going against us I liked what we were trying to do. After the horror show of the previous two years it was always going to take time to lift us off the floor.

It’s slowly but surely coming together as we gradually stumble upon our strongest team piece by piece. I honestly think that the second half display in Salthill was the makings of this team. I remember saying to @The_Burner in the ground at half time it’s the same old shit. Then we came out and hurled up a storm to get the 1B elephant off our backs. The weight was lifted, belief coursed through the players and we’ve played with a freedom since.

Yeah we’ve only beaten poor Tipp and Waterford sides so far but for long enough we were the ones being walked on. We are not world beaters but I think we can give anyone a game on our day. At the same time we can lose to anyone on our day also if we drop our manic aggression (cc that baldy ginger prick Paulie)

Sunday will tell a lot about us. A horrible, awkward dump of a ground to go to needing a result. It’s lovely to be qualified out of the province but not reaching a Munster final now would be a set back. Not a complete disaster but a set back. A likely quarter final against Kilkenny where for once we’d be favourites would be fraught with danger. We’d be facing the same hoodoo Waterford faced against them in the qualifiers last year, having not beaten them in donkeys years.

Not many teams win in Ennis. Would be great to go down there and make another statement, like we did with 14 men in Cork.

It’s a wide open championship. Strike while the iron is hot. We mightn’t even get out of Munster next year.

It’s just nice to be following a side where there’s no fuck acting on the pitch or on the line. When this group of players are beaten they’ll have left it all out there. Even at the end on Sunday - and I know this is twee - but it was to nice the players taking photos and getting autographs with the young kids. Now we’ve a group of players that our kids can look up to rather than always looking up to players in other counties. There’s a feel good factor there. This group has won all the way up from u-16, they expect to win. Even more strangely I haven’t heard many apes screaming we are going to win the A-I. And nor should we looking at the way Galway are moving on relentlessly.

Probably being set up for an almighty fall but I’d be confident we’d give a decent account of ourselves at the weekend. I’ve a days drinking ahead of me on Saturday so my views are likely to change numerous times in the meantime but I think we are well capable to going down there and digging it out. Either way we are on an upward trajectory and I’d be getting the JP cheque book out to tie down the gaffer and Kinnerk to a new five year deal ASAP. Remember their term is up at the end of next year…!

#I believe

anon26343222 · June 13, 2018, 9:45am

His your father too

glasagusban · June 13, 2018, 9:45am

Pretty much agree with all of that except, being pedantic, I don’t think we are stumbling upon our best team, Kiely seems to have been pretty methodical in building it.

I presume we’ll have an unchanged first 15 next week. Given how Kiely has stuck by players in possession of places/jersies until changes have been pretty much forced it will be a big statement if Peter Casey makes an appearance or even if he’s on the bench at the weekend. If he’s even a sub it means he has jumped ahead of a few players already. I think we mightn’t see him for the seniors til the munster final.

I can’t get over the strength of options in our full forward line all of a sudden. It’s not hard to see Nash having a bigger impact yet and making a case for inclusion.

glasagusban · June 13, 2018, 9:49am

John Kiely challenges Limerick charges to rise again

manbehindthewire · June 13, 2018, 9:54am

Rory Kiely - ar dheis dé go raibh a anam

dodgy_keeper · June 13, 2018, 9:54am

The chances we are creating regularly on our own puck outs is light years away from what we’ve seen previously.

Two examples from last Sunday.

Quaid finds Tom Morrissey in space on the open stand side, he makes a few yards and then puts it over. Keeper to wing forward to umpire putting up the flag.

Second half - Quaid fires it out to the Mackey Stand side, Hayes runs on to it, makes about 40 yards as he tears through, all the other Limerick forwards peel off giving him a clear run on goal, should have scored but a fine save from O’Keeffe all the same.

Beats lumping it forward and hoping for the best.

Ashman · June 13, 2018, 9:56am

To be honest it was a good goal but the Waterford defending was utterly shambolic . When Hegarty got the ball there are two defenders goal side .

anon78624367 · June 13, 2018, 9:59am

he fucked one of them out of the way with brute strength while simultaneously sidestepping another one with the grace of a gazelle.

You’re an awful negative nelly or a pessimistic pete, if you will.

glasagusban · June 13, 2018, 10:00am

Morrissey won’t get his marker standing 5 yards off him like that again. It was a super score from him though.

anon61956325 · June 13, 2018, 10:01am

I almost forgot Brian Geary was involved…

anon78624367 · June 13, 2018, 10:03am

how can you almost forget something. Memory is binary. You either remember or you don’t

Ashman · June 13, 2018, 10:04am

Not at all pessimistic but if Lk gave away such a goal I would not be happy . The last defender back was Paraic Mahony which says it all .

Ambrose_McNulty · June 13, 2018, 10:06am

No team could have prevented that goal

dodgy_keeper · June 13, 2018, 10:08am

No way? He had a good innings to be fair.

manbehindthewire · June 13, 2018, 10:12am

Had been in UHL since the weekend, a right good innings.