So am i too early to meet
Well done gone getting to the 1/4 finals I hope ye beat cork
Forum hevyweight @Bandage called it earlier in the league when he said Byrnes is out of form. If GOM is fit, a Hickey-Hannon-GOM halfback line is surely on the cards the next day. English had a very good game but can be guilty of stratosphering the ball as well (after he takes half an hour to tee up his tennis-smash swing - a gift waiting to happen)
Bit of a concern with the 8-12 that lined out and indeed played most of the game today. Lumbering.
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All I received for my perceptive comments about Byrnes was a load of unfair abuse. He’s gone from being a genuine sort, a kind of throwback and having a good bit of cut in his game to being quite arrogant, immature and selfish in his play. Limerick really miss Gavin O’Mahoney.
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I thought O’Donoghue was ok in fairness…decent in the first half…faded badly in the second…but that was endemic across the team.
I’ve never seen Jimbob have a such a poor game…he should have been subbed way earlier…Hegarty tried hard…but was also poor…looked like he strained something in his lower back in the first half…got a point…
Early in the second he should have setup Cian Lynch for a goal but overcooked a simple handpass when the goal chance was on.
The Galway half back line cleaned us out from Nickys puckouts…every time the ball broke there seemed to be 3 Galway players there vs one Limerick forward picking up the ball from the break.
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Is it about time ye tried a GK in goals?
O Donaghue had a lovely cut about him the first 20 mins - but after that we badly needed more industry from midfield, for example on the breaking ball from the puckouts as you say, and it wasn’t there. Paudie O’Brienesque when we needed more Seanie O’Brien. Worth persisting with WOD though, maybe at half forward even.
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But you had limerick down as world beaters before the match. Surely they weren’t that bad?
Hard to bate a quick toss.
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Disappointing result today, hopefully they’ll rise it up a few notches for next week.
Hegarty and o’Donoghue would form a cracking interco football midfield. They beat Ian maguire and ruairi dean handily two years ago.
Hegarty is left half back or nowhere in this side. He does not have the turn and agility or the striking to play half forward against top class half backs.
Byrnes plays to the gallery. His game needs to be reined in.
Going back to long high rashers ball from half back with the wind is a serious failure.
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Hegarty probably is best suited to half-back, but I think Kiely is going to persist with him in the forwards at this stage simply because we lack ballwinners.
We have a few players to come back in but Nash & Casey are probably the only forwards really pushing for a starting position, maybe Tom Morrissey too. None a top class ballwinner.
I don’t think Limerick have figured out the best balance to their attack. Hegarty may have been ambling / gamboling / lolloping through the Laois defence and scoring 2-6 or something a few weeks ago but that needs to be put in context. He was apparently contained fairly easily today and, bar an early point in Wexford Park, I think he was pretty much hooked or blocked every time he got on the ball. Speed of striking doesn’t seem to quick enough to be an inter-county forward if the games against Galway and Wexford are taken into account.
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And that is an example of how you have emerged as the leading hurling analyst here. A king among princes. You should be writing about it.
Working on the puckouts is a must though. I don’t know if Quaid had many other options today, but we’ve just got to win more of our own ball in the Championship.
Whether it’s short puckouts, better movement or bringing a ballwinner from somewhere. Need to compete on the ground for the second balls better than we did today, Galway’s midfield outworked us.
I just read that Burke finished with six points from play, that’s absolutely scandalous.
First time seeing us live this year and first time seeing a few of the new players we tried. God Galway are a much bigger team all over the field.
Despite the effort to get lads to win ball in our half forward line we’re poor still poor on puck outs. Hardly a one short puck out either, serious work needed there. The forwards don’t look very cohesive and backs need to be a lot more compact. I’m not really sure what the game plan is. Is Cian Lynch a corner forward or a half forward or a midfielder now?
I thought English was good enough too but lads here have been glowing about him, he dropped or fumbled or mishit a few balls and he loves to wind up and Mark foley it up the field. Not what I love to see from a corner back. Def not ready for full back.
Hickey had two bad mistakes, one mishit and a botched hand pass. Apart from that he was excellent. Byrnes was dreadful. Jury still out on hannon for me.
WOD was not exceptional but he did alright. A number of times he carried the ball through traffic and got a pass away -to Dempsey for the goal for example. Once he got tied up in traffic, I think a free given against him, every other time he got a pass away. At about 25 minutes I remarked I hadn’t seen James Ryan hit the ball. He finally got a possession just before half time. He then had two possessions in the second half. WOD was at least twice as good. Can’t understand why Ryan was left on the pitch so long.
Hegarty actually showed a few flashes that showed promise to me and seems to be improving all the time. Dempsey had some good moments, not sure he’s ready yet. Dowling was very good. Mulcahy and Lynch started well but faded early. Hayes didn’t look out of place at all, one of the better performers, but dunno is he ready yet.
Nash came on made one chase back the field. Lynch was brought on a minute and a half into half time, what’s the point? He won a free and then the game was over.
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I tried liking that twice!
I’m reading these posts and, while nobody’s really outright said it yet, there’s a few hints or even tacit admissions that your manager is clueless.
I called him as drunken mess a month back pal that should do!
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Rattled.