Limerick GAA - All-Ireland senior hurling champions 2018

Limerick management were shambolic.

Okay first half, but outplayed by O’Connor overall. Barely involved in the second half. He was average at best in the round - a 5/10 or 6/10 type of display. Beaten to the majority balls and failed to secure possession cleanly a number of times when he was in position to get on it. The balls he won, he was shepherded away from goal for the most part. Missed frees, one bad wide from open play and no score from open play. To say he was good today is plain daft, as I’m sure even the most biased Limerick supporter would agree. I didn’t say he didn’t work hard, but he was completely ineffective.

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Fucking hell, the Limerick leader won’t provide that depth of analysis :grinning:
Dowling was fine, one of the few Limerick players not to leave themselves down today.

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He was poor today. The missed free at the start set the tone for his display. It was sloppy. Tom morrissey, hannon done well and richie mc done ok I thought.

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Nah, you’re patently incorrect. It’s a very weird take on the game.

Sure mate, just stick in an old ‘weird’ as usual for effect :smile:

Why do you think he set up no scores?

We were worse today against Clare than we were last year in Thurles which I find hard to fathom. At least last year we hurled for 6/7 minutes at one stage in the first half.

We literally never got going at all. 12 individual battles arguably lost. Thankfully it can all be rectified in the AI series. Limerick are far better than what they showed today.

Ah look. The whole 70 minutes was a cluster fuck. From the first minute to the last.
A bad day.
Ultimately the failure to win in Cork cost us a Munster final berth. We should have being heading to Ennis today without any skin in the game whatsoever

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Limerick reminded me a bit like Tipp (without the medals in their arse pockets). This team s big and stong but if a team ups the pace we are fucked. Our half backs are fucked if they have to turn. Our half foward line have two lads who are not natural forwards. Our full back line contains 3 corner backs. Our full forward line was ok but Dowling cannot play in a 2 man line. Quaids puck outs were not good.
Apart from all that …

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Ok.

I wouldnt say he played well either but tried at least… You said he didnt set up any scores but he did, that’s all I was really interjecting for.

Carry on.

Not sure what you’re laughing at. I’d say Shane Dowling himself would be surprised to receive praise for his performance today.

No worries, mate.

I was laughing at the usual tactic you have of using the word ‘weird’ when somebody disagrees with you, there was absolutely nothing at all weird about it.

He was one of Limerick’s better performers, not good by his own standards but he didn’t let himself down, sad to see him being scapegoated

9 years out of 10! :joy: one all ireland a decade is all ye cunts win

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The poor bastards

It’s weird to praise an attacker who was shut down fairly emphatically and whose shooting was off from frees and play and who didn’t score from play. I can’t control your odd reaction to my use of the word “weird” though.

Two this decade

as opposed to one all ireland in three quarters of a century?

Not great for the “premier county”