Dowling should be a starter and probably will be by the time our season ends. Heās probably our only player youād back to make a goal if we needed one. Questioning whether heāll make the match day squad is hilarious.
Anyway itāll be great when the team is named and we can start arguing about what order the subs should be brought on.
Why should Dowling start?
For too long under previous managers lads were starting based on reputation. Kiely clearly gives lads a chance and rewards lads who perform for them.
Because they could do with winning, heās been blackguarded by the structure of the season, he may not start next week due to some sort of dumb loyalty but heāll be a big part of the remaining games,
Dowling hasnāt performed to the level Flanagan has in the last four years. He deserves his chance.
What happened with yer man Barry thatās there with yonks? Only after doing the place up and all.
Flanagan will have his chance next week, good luck to him, but whether itās his spot or not Iād be shocked if Dowling didnāt start most of the remaining games, and I still think Downes will play a part as well
Yes but you have to admit you are an awful judge. You get too worked up about other peopleās opinions. You were saying 5 nap players would start in December, it was downes a month ago and now itās dowling. You are like glas with your blinkers on. You donāt look at things objectively.
I think the most important thing is that weāll have a very strong team out, with every sub expected to make it. The lads are fired-up, raring to go but also confident.
Itās not going to be easy; every single match in Munster will be a battle but weāre going to be extremely hard to beat. Weāve had a couple of bad summers in a row, I think this will be a good one. Cannot wait.
Rubbish, Iām 100% objective, Iāve no link whatsoever with NaP,
You took an awful lot of notice of something I donāt remember saying in December, thatās 5 or 6 times now youāve brought it up in recent weeks, I didnāt foresee Limerick going so well in the league and hadnāt expected a few of the newer ladsto go as well as they have, at the time I probably felt that the two Caseyās and Dowling would be certainties and that a couple of others would fill some problem positions, having seen Downes play twice over in tne GG for NaP I definitely thought that he was looking as good as he had in years,
Youāre suggestion this morning was nuts though
Bizarre comment even from youš¤. While I wish Flanagan the best next Sunday and hope he does untold he couldnāt make the U21 team last year and playing at a lower level with his club. Dowling is proven at inter county all the others are unproven cause they havenāt got a chance to date. Simple logic that is lost on you.
Thereās a top top poster lining up a big one here, hope Iām not in the firing line
His point is he knows more about it than you, which he clearly does, as he and others laughed at your assertions of 5 Na P players starting. They have only one guaranteed starter, Peter Casey.
Shane Dowling is a class act who Iāve defended on here to the hilt in the past. However, I said way back in the league that if you looked carefully at how Limerick are now playing that he doesnāt fit in anywhere. His role will be coming in at 14 when the game has settled down a bit. He isnāt starting because others deserve to start ahead of him, thatās the truth.
There is already an undercurrent around the county regarding wanting Dowling in for Flanagan. This sums up everything wrong with Limerick Hurling. Seamus Flanagan has had a phenomenal impact for a player from a West Limerick club who were Junior A 4 years ago and who couldnāt get a game with our U21s last year. If he was from a bigger club or more importantly a different division, this attitude wouldnāt exist. But heās from the West, so he can hardly keep Dowling out of the team. Everyone accepts he has done enough to start but theyāre kinda waiting for him to have an off day so they can get Dowling back in. Same stuff not being said about other players
Were discussing the here and now. Not 2014. Flanagan was brilliant in the league as we finally gained promotion out of 1b. Something the panel between 2011 and 2017 couldnāt achieve.
The Dowling/Flanagan debate is bad but the one that drives me insane how every clown in the county wants Dan morrissey dropped even though he should be the first person on the team sheet. An example for every young hurler in the county.
Are we taking this game seriously at all?
300 posts since the 21 game about shane dowling.
TBFT shane he is box office.
I hadnāt read this as I was writing my essay of a post but thanks for highlighting my exact point
It doesnāt matter a fuck where any player is from, and Iām pretty sure Kiely thinks that too.
But youāre right, of course in that Dowling doesnāt really fit in as a starter in the way that we have been playing in 2018, from January right through to the Tipp League game. Personally, if there was an injury to a couple of players, I could maybe see him starting at 11 but Iād much prefer him as a sub; he will cause havoc. In the 3 League matches worth anything though, Flanagan has been really really good, heās fitted in so well; I wouldnāt have predicted that at the start of the year.
But yeahā¦ thereās been a lot of talk about one player, Shane Dowling. This is a serious Limerick team, all over the pitch. Weāre ready for Tipp.
Mate, seriously now, what I said back in December was during a throwaway discussion, it was December ffs sake,
Iāve stated my reasons, I still think at least 5 different NaP players will start games this year
But I am 100% neutral, I might not be as familiar as others but Iāll call it as I see it, you couldnāt be asking me to stay away from one of the best threads on the web?
The first thing Iād look for next Sunday is if every player is 100 percent fit, if every lad is working his bolox off to hook, block and fight for every single ball. After that you canāt complain too Much. For too often in Limerick we glorify lads with ability unwilling to prepare themselves properly and unwilling to work in the team. Thatās what makes the likes of Kyle Hayes and Hegarty special for me.