They have a strong team alright, I suppose their senior have only had two matches to burn players and theyâve played 6 Championship matches at junior level.
They have Jason Gillane, Andrew & Calvin Carroll, David Woulfe⌠Few others who would be there or thereabouts for their seniors.
Tis harder to not go through to the County stages sure ffs. The whole restructuring of the championship was an exercise in making it more and more difficult for the West Board to continue to resist it going all County, at the expense of common sense. It was Killeedy who proposed the 3rd qualifier out of each division to contest the County because the cunts canât get past the West Semis themselves
If Limerick win, we donât know what will happen.
Weâre training as if the match is on but itâs hard to get the mindset right. Very hard to get in âChampionship modeâ when you donât really know when youâre out again.
I would presume if Limerick win, Championship will be off until at least two weekends after the All-Ireland, but you never know.
Moving the calendar forward this year should allow them a bit of space to work with I suppose, but the Limerick fixture list isnât designed for Limerick doing well .
Theyâve us down to play senior football vs Pats the Tuesday after the AI semi meaning Hegarty would have to tog again Tuesday night if he wants to play for them (and thatâs the whole reason itâs being moved to Tuesday so I presume he does).
Some of our lads will have played 2 hurling championship & one football championship game in less than a week after tonight. Training all year and the whole thing could be gone up in smoke after a week of running lads into the ground
Canât see Kiely being happy with that. While theyâve released subs & extended panel members all year, I canât see how Hegarty playing Championship football 48 hours after running himself into the ground against Cork is ideal recovery with an All-Ireland in sight.
But yeah, if we all want to have a few weeks drinking when we win Liam, I suppose we have to make a few sacrifices on the way.