You know your stuff. 
What limerick badly needed yesterday was Barry Foley (2016 club player of the year) to shore up midfield. A bit of Patrickswell steel and composure was missing.
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Encountered two former Limerick managers yesterday.
Bumped into TJ outside the ground before the match, he seemed cheerful enough. Didn’t stop to chat as was in a hurry to get in on time. He was sporting a bright blue jumper, I suppose to brave the Mackey stand.
Then was sitting next to Richie Bennis who felt that we should be driving the ball long a bit more. At the same time, he was less than impressed with the quality of ball from our half-backs into the forwards in the second half.
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Nothing wrong with good long balls. Tipp & KK do it all the time. Hitting the ball wide from the half back line is a crime punishable by death though.
Particularly while playing with the wind
I heard Hickey berating his colleagues in the backs about 20 minutes into the second half. After one of Byrnes’ wides hickey shouted something about “decision making” and shortly after English and Byrnes langering the next two balls up the field hickey told them they needed to work through the lines. The backs weren’t helped by the fact that our midfield was being dominated in fairness.
Kiely not happy, called the second half performance “abysmal”.
Better than proclaiming it was a “brave” performance, I suppose.
In fairness to him he’s not trying to parcel it up and using phrases like " work in progress " or “transition phase” He’s obviously a bit of a perfectionist and wants to get it right.
Physicality is still a big issue and that will come with time. Not too sure but fitness might be an issue as well.
In his shoes I would go all out to win next weekend and should start the 15 he wants to start in June ( injuries excepted ) In real terms he should go for it from here. I don’t think there has been any element of shadow boxing up to now but the ground is that bit harder and that should suit us. At least an outing in Thurles for a semi would be a very good indicator rather then having to arrange half arsed challenge games between now and June
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What is the story with Peter casey ???
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Breakdown I suppose?
Neither William o d or james Ryan have that vision or positional sense to drop off into space and use the ball intelligently like Galway didn’t multiple times yesterday. I’d try cian lynch there next to Paul Browne
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When Hickey is lecturing you about decision making you know things are bad.
All we learned from the weekend is that you learn nothing playing in 1b. Hopefully we can sqeak past Cork and get another two games at the higher intensity levels to expose a few more of our chinks in advance of June.
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I’m going to have to expose the double standards at play again unfortunately.
If TJ Ryan made similar comments to Kiely’s after presiding over a second half collapse then he’d have been slaughtered.
Limerick posters would be saying things like:
“Why’s he separating himself from the players? If he thinks their display was abysmal then what does it say about him? He’s responsible for preparing and motivating them so did they abandon his instructions or are they incapable of carrying them out? Either way it reflects badly on him and is having a go at them in the media really the best way to go about things? He makes a fool of himself every time he speaks to the media.”
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We only turned on Teege once it became clear he was clueless, Kiely has a grace period until the semi final in June after which we will turn on him with all of our venom and everything will be his fault.
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K.O.K.
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TJ Ryan had 3 years . JK has had 3 months thus far . There will be no double standards. If Lk are still making the same mistakes next year Jk will get whatever flak is coming .
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We will only turn on Kiely after we fail to retain the All Ireland in 2018.
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No county does vitriol like Limerick, give us time my good man.
You’re doing a great job of planting the seeds for the anti Kiely movement but it will take time to gather momentum. Even Teege got the benefit of the doubt for two years, we Limerick fans are nothing if not fair and reasonable until we aren’t.
The state of some of the Na Piarsaigh lads walking around the stadium yesterday wearing skin tight togs. They looked ridiculous.
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