The final losses were all gruesome in their own way but the semi final losses in ‘13 and ‘14 really cut me.
Lar Corbett lashing the ball into an empty net in ‘09 was awful too.
For me though I think the nadir was the loss to a shit enough Offaly team on a Thursday night in Thurles in 2003. We were a million miles off winning an All-Ireland. Just so demoralising. Scraping by Kerry around the same time was another real low point.
The strike year was devastating too, I didn’t go to the championship matches that year and only one or two in the league.
Thank God we were all alive to see last Sunday. All the bad memories banished.
In recent times the 09 semi final was horrendous we were laughed out of Croke park that day by those Tipp cunts but deservedly so. 08 at home to Offaly, 06 in Ennis. 8 years in 1B was rotten too losing the promotion game to bobble head and the Dubs in 2013.
Those cunts seemed to ruin us at every turn the last 25 years it was no wonder we felt a corner was turned this year after we annihilated them in Tullamore in front of an expectant home crowd.
Losing to Waterford in 1982 was the first time I’d seen Limerick lose in Munster in 3 years. I can still remember it clearly. Stopped in Lees?? was it in Newport on the way home and were home in time for Argentina v Belgium in the opening game of Espana 82.
You would feel a little bit for the likes of Dodge, Jim-Bob, Gavin, etc. Fellas who drove us on in the bad days and are still probably good enough to be on the panel, just found it hard to go another year.
But the win is for the whole county, hearing Dodge’s commentary from the other day was class. Pure joy.