Very true Joe
I thought the style of hurling was decent tbh. Over-elaborated a few times, but was mostly fairly intelligent heads-up hurling and I would consider it positive in general.
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Weâre not playing them until round 4 at the end of February. They start against Tipperary, weâre away to Waterford.
Congratulations to you and the genuine Limerick supporters on todayâs final win.
Great to read about such a good hardcore match attendance when some lads preferred to watch Munster on television.
Ah right, thought it was Clare v Wexford first up for some reason.
Munsterâs 5th and 6th ranked hurling counties had a great day .
Aye and Kerry are probably up to 3rd after today
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Weâll know how far theyâve come on the 4th of March
Limerick were comfortably the better of two awful teams.
Granted, itâs January hurling, but it was awful shite. Tom Condon is cooked as am inter-county defender. Byrnes hasmât learned a jot in two years. Gearoid Hegarty? - God help us.
Positives - OâMeara has a cut and is worth more game time. OâDonovan, both Morrisseys and Flanagan put in a shift. Hickey was also very good. I thought. Also, that was pretty much Clareâs first team - theyâre not that good.
Negatives - Too much gowling around with the ball at the back. Forwards have no hope with the delayed delivery theyâre getting. Gillane can play one type of game only. Kinnerk appears an utter cunt. This team will get badly exposed in serious hurling.
Overall, weâre not great but Clare are worse.
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No one disputing that
One thing boys . What was the forwards and mid field work rate like without the ball . Did they make it really hard for Clare ? This has been a big weakness over last few years .
I think youâre being harsh there. There is some truth there, but I thought there was definite more positive intentions than last year and no team hurling at this time of the year is any bit sharp. Things should speed up as conditions improve.
The same is true of Clare and I donât know if weâll be ready to go toe to toe with the likes of Tipp in the summer but you start with the attitude, work rate and gameplan at this time of year and see how it goes.
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Attitude and workrate were good, to be fair. The gameplan is what will kill us.
I thought there was a noticeable improvement in workrate without the ball. A lot of lads looked out on their feet with ten to go,from both sides.
Clare were poor and had a fairly strong team out but itâs not all doom and gloom for them. I thought they had good displays from Frodo & Bilbo Baggins, Peregrin Took and Samwise Gamgee
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Byrnes was our standout player in 2015, but he has regressed an awful lot. Heâs incredibly wasteful with the ball. Dan Morrissey has hit a good vein of form, but is another player whose instinct is to run rather than deliver. Iâd prefer if he stayed in the forwards but I can see Kyle Hayes getting redeployed, particularly with Hannon out for the majority of the league.
Byrnes was decent in 2016 but there was a lot of rough edges . Clare made a total hero of him the night in thurles .
He is back after a lost year and willl improve . He will be grand . Very early .
In January? Gâway out of that 
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Podge is absolutely sound and a smashing player, wish we had him.
Can you expand a bit? Overdoing short passing?
Gillane a super player but have my reservations that heâll be ready to start this summer. Hegarty was lost in the inside line last year, I canât understand why theyâd put him there.
Sounds like Hickey did well at full back but OâDonnell is a different prospect on hard grand.
It was an observation, you banjo playing redneck little bollix
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Tipp in two weeks. Awful. - 10 tipp get on.