I agree to a point . A promotion would also be a huge monkey off the back .
It wouldâŚall our talk that weâre a championship team and we can turn it on for the Munster championship etc has eroded with each passing year weâve been stuck in this 1B rut.
Its okay for a year or two but certainly not for the bones of a decade.
The Munster Final win in 13 and the subsequent run in 2014 probably led to a bit of complacency on all sides and itâs only now the chickens ate coming home to roost. Next year we will have at most two competitive games in 1B and at best a further two after that. Itâs no perpetuation for a crowd of ypung fellas who after beating the shit out of the other 1B teams are suddenly dealt a dose of reality the first week of June
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Then you get the unfortunate draw of Kilkenny in Nowlan Pk.
Year over on the 1st July.
8 years next year Mike is a killer.
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Look ypu have to take a leaf out of Wexfords book. If we have to peak for the league so be it.
I donât know how much further Wexford are going to go but itâs already been a successful campaign for them.
I say fuck it, peak for the league. Give it our all. Even if weâre out of championship come July again at least we will have a decent platform for the following year.
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How has it been a successful campaign for Wexford, theyâve won nothing (yet at least). The league is a load of bollox, even if you win it, itâs no guarantee of a good championship. Limerick should be targeting next yearâs championship, like any team with ambition.
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Successful in terms of getting out of the vacuum that is 1B. They will have at least 5 competitive matches before championship. So yes ultimately it is all about championship.
The provincial round robin might already be in for next year, guys.
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Relative to where they were . That said they did OK last year under Liam Dunne as they beat Cork and were competitive in Q/ f v Waterford . This year they got promotion , got to league semi , beat Kk twice and more importantly nearly every kid in the county is holding a hurley . They also played the best team in the country in Croke Park in front of 60 k .
Barring they donât bomb in any remaining fixtures it has been a good year .
Yea I was just thinking that.
The problem we have there is that the bottom.two teams in each province do not qualify for Liam McCarthy the following year.
How is that supposed to help the game of hurling I wonder? I havenât paid any attention to this round robin proposal but that sounds a load of rubbish, if true.
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+1, the league is no more than a long series of glorified friendly matches, nobody with an ounce of ambition wants to be peaking in the springtime.
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Itâs a fucking minefield in Munster whatever about Leinster.
A lot of league matches lads are barely able to walk from the training session that morning.
So Byrnes played again tonight?
His good when he shows up
Based on what, exactly? 
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Not really. The list of âstarsâ that have come into to give inspirational talks to limerick teams over the last few years includes Martin OâNeill, AP McCoy and Paul OâConnell. It has fuck all effect other than showing young fellas that if they want money and status then they should play professional sports.
What Limerick need to win hurling matches are good players and good coaching not rugby players coming in driving big cars telling them how to win matches.
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Old school boy HIP and WHIP and donât mind the fancy shit let it in long
No actually.
Have a look at Cork last year and this year and see if you can see the difference a âhurlingâ coach brings. It isnt hit it as far as you can. Its movement, hard work off the ball and accurate long passing. Oh and they achieved it without Conor Murray or Peter OâMahony telling them how to close out games.