Galway were aided by a stiff breeze in the opening half but Limerick started impressively. Rattled over four points from our first four attacks, threw the ball around and looked slick.
Gradually Galway came into it and were dominant side in the third quarter. A goal from Cian Lynch after good donkey work from O’Donoghue and D. Dempsey gave us a nice boost before half time and with the breeze to come we looked poised to press on.
Very poor second half. We owned the ball for the first five mins upon the resumption but had nothing to show for it. Hegarty burst through and rather than tap over a handy point he played a woeful lay off and the chance was lost. Dowling - otherwise impressive - missed a handy free. Lynch hit two poor wides. The intelligence we displayed facing the breeze deserted us as we lorried the ball forward aimlessly. Repeatedly. Attacking shape totally disintegrated. Galway midfield and half backline totally ruled the roost.
David Burke was the difference ultimately. Class player. We had nobody like him to fire over scores.
Limerick positives
Hickey (couple of mistakes aside) was more than decent again.
Hannon also hurled well.
Kyle Hayes also did well, took the fight to Galway in the first half. He’s made of the right stuff. Should have been left in full forward where he was on top.
Dowling looks in great shape.
lived dangerously a few times but kept a clean sheet.
the return of Nash as a sub.
Negatives
slow on the line to make changes again. Massive fan of Jim Bob but he wasn’t at the races today. Lucky not to be called ashore well before he was. Ditto Hegarty.
as said above fell apart after the break. It was as if we expected the wind to do the work for us. No real tactics other than launch it long. The intricate passes and use of space dried up.
Quaid is a quality keeper but every other top keeper seems to get about twenty extra yards on their puckouts than him.
still don’t know how to best utilise Cian Lynch.
It was a dead rubber today but still disappointing to lose.
It’ll be nice to have a crack off Cork next week. I fancy us to take them. Bate the cunts in soccer on Friday night so may as well do the double over them next weekend.
David Burke excellent, Aidan Harte had a good game at corner back, they work the ball well out of defence, a lot more intelligently than Limerick. Their midfield and half back line wiped up us for a 15-20 of the second half and that was the winning of the game for Galway.
Thanks. Listened to it, but, with hurling of all sports, unless the commentator is outstanding, you get no idea.
Limerick decent enough come championship I reckon. Should be better again next year.
David Burke the difference today ran the show.Very good in the first half but we hadn’t a clue how to best use the breeze,the 4 wides in a row start of second half literally took the wind out of our sails.Browne is a huge loss for us as was evident today when midfield were overran in the second half.Good to see Nash back but he was clearly rusty,Hickey played very well fielded some great ball and layed it off,Dowling was impressive worked hard and set up a few scores.Sideline were very slow to react O’Donoghue should have been hauled for Alan Dempsey also thought Heggo should have came off for Casey(injured?)/ Gavin put Nash on the wing and Casey in the corner seemed the way to go.Galway are alot further ahead than us physically we are still light and got out muscled in the breaks.Cork next week in what could be our last meaningful game before June so would like to see a good effort put in.
Dunno about that pal the league restructure is almost guaranteed after losing today! I hope to God it’s not at least we would have at least 2 good teams to play next year.
An absolute joke. I showed up at 2.45pm and we had to stand at the back of one of two very long queues to buy our tickets from that GAA tickets van. It was then 3.05pm by time I got our tickets and we still had to go through turnstiles and find a seat in the new stand after that. Limerick were 0-3 to 0-0 up when we walked in.
Then at HT when I went for a piss the lights weren’t working in the gents and it was pitch black! You couldn’t see immediately in front of you without the aid of a light from your phone. Programmes sold out at 2.30pm as you mentioned. On leaving then they had no exit open on open stand side so we’d to walk all the way over to Mackey stand and out that way.
You didn’t come down from kinvarra for that shite did you? Seems to have been a good few forumites in the new stand today so. That gents by the way was the exact same the last time I was at a match in the Gaelic grounds which was last September for the county final! Still not been fixed
They didn’t have a working scanner for the season tickets either, they were writing down the numbers of each ticket on a piece of paper which led to queues (and frustration) for people using those stiles.
They had one home game to prepare for in this league campaign that would get a reasonable crowd - in hurling or football - and they made a complete bollocks of it. Absolute jokers.
To have a couple of stiles in operation in the open stand would have alleviated a lot of the problems but the inept cunts couldn’t even manage that on one of the few warm days we get in the year.
