@ciarancareyshurlingarmy may wish to revise his starting team with this in mind.
Throw forum-favourite Fitzgibbon into that mix as well, though he hasn’t been seen since he tried to decapitate some BIFFO.
Just for the Cork game, I’d be going:
Quaid
English Richie Mc Casey
Gavin Hannon Hickey
WOD DOD
Hayes Lynch Dempsey
Casey Nash Mulcahy
And we should be focusing on goals. Cork’s backs are shit. Try and isolate each of our inside forwards one on one with their marker… pull the half-forward line back a bit, and then aim ball in front of Nash and tell him to take his man on. If they play a sweeper, work the ball out of defence and try and get that half-forward line running through their backline, all well capable to carry the ball.
Do need some puckout variance though.
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After 90 minutes of play you will cleared the subs bench. We have loads of 80% free takers. It won’t matter who is left.
Slow news day 
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Quaid
Hickey English M Casey
Byrnes Hannon Hegarty
WOD C Lynch
Gillane Nash Hayes
Mulcahy Dowling P Casey
If all fit…thats who I’d go with for Cork.
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Uh oh you put Hickey in the corner!! Someone will be along any second now to have a meltdown.
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The rest of the team is automatically invalid and @The_Most_Infamous must hence forth be monitored as a man of dubious judgement
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Talked to a few people around and people seem to think the lack of a ‘marquee forward’ is costing us. KK have TJ Reid (and Richie Hogan, I suppose), Tipp have Callanan as well as McGrath & Bubbles, Waterford have Gleeson, Clare have Conor McGrath and Tony Kelly, Galway have Joe and we’ve got nobody. Apparently.
We don’t have one forward as good as any of them but at the same time, it took some of them quite a few years to become top players. Reid, Hogan, Callanan in particular… all three had talent but were flaky and have matured hugely. Any of the players who could even possibly be that ‘marquee player’ are quite young.
There was always the hope that Hannon might be the one based on underage performances but he has never consistently delivered in the forwards. A couple of great performances- Dublin in 2011, Kilkenny in 2014. Even his style of play, he might score a few points but the game bypass him a lot when you want him on the ball more than anybody really. Hopefully that does happen for him this year.
I think our forwards do have potential if we can make it all click. If they get decent service, if they bring a very high work rate, I think the talent is there.
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Dowling can be a marquee forward. I don’t think Hannon ever could but he can be a decent half back.
I’ve said this a load of times, Reid and Callanan spent their early to mid 20s dropping on and off the team before they became the best players in Ireland. Hannon and Dowling are only approaching the age where the above two really stepped up. With no hannon there Dowling has to be the main man in the forwards and it’s an additional reason he needs to be at full forward. By the way canning is about the only modern player that stepped up to that marquee forward status immediately.
In fairness to Dowling, he got three points from play at the weekend, he did well.
The one thing that Callanan has over Dowling though is the athletic side of things. He’s very quick, and while Dowling is strong, he doesn’t have the sheer power that Callanan brings. And Callanan always wants to get goals. I preferred it when he was a windy fucker, he’s absolutely lethal now. Dowling is probably a better freetaker though.
And on the other point, both Gleeson & Kelly were Hurlers of the Year while still U-21. That’s pretty ‘marquee’. Although Kelly wasn’t an out and out forward, he drifted all over the place. Gleeson was so effective in the forwards last year. Again though, they have physical attributes that help them in addition to their skill- Kelly is ridiculously fast which gives him that little bit extra time & space. Gleeson is freakishly athletic, he just barrels people out of the way.
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Reid and hogan weren’t on the kk team because there was marquee forwards ahead of them. You’ve been schooled on this on numerous occasions and before you start no Dowling won’t ever become a marquee forward.
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Wrong. I didn’t say he will. I said it took Reid and Callanan time. And I’m right, it did.
He is more a buffet forward than a man for marquees
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Callahan scored for fun with tipp it was a metal issue. It was clear as daylight he had oodles of ability. It’s laughable people think Dowling can reach anywhere near those heights.
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http://limerickgaa.ie/round-1-of-lit-county-premier-intermediate-hurling-confirmed/
The opening round dates and venues of the LIT premier intermediate hurling championship has been released
Friday 7th April
Murroe/Boher v Mungret/St Pauls in Claughaun at 6.30pm
Blackrock v Effin in Kilmallock at 6.30pm
Sunday 9th April
Garryspillane v Pallasgreen in Bruff at 6.30pm
Saturday 15th April
Bruree v Feohanagh in Feenagh at 6pm
The point was it took Callanan, and Reid, years of being on and off the team, and being considered flakes, before they reached their current level in their mid 20s.
Nice and simple. Unarguable really. Hopefully you get it this time.