I called this three weeks ago.
Pallasgreen beat rathkeale? How did this happen heard pallasgreen are missing 8 lads from last year.
They scored more id guess.
Thought rathkeale would win handy enough
Pallas also only had 14 men and played against the breeze for the second half.
That said playing with 14 men is probably an advantage to Pallas. They wouldnāt be used to having 15 on the field.
How dare you speak to LimerickWest like that you little fucking upstart cunt.
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I logged on to Hoganstand for a look thereā¦ about 200 posts in 10 days and lads blaming everything from the Co. Board, TJ, the players and lads not supporting the team on the internet for the diaster that is Limerick hurlingā¦
This was a lovely little post thoā¦ Hip and Whip brigade, look away now.
Itās all mesmorizing! The displays, comments, and opinions. But the lack of understanding most of all.
Iām not a great fan of TJās but letās face it, thereās little point in changing horses mid-stream! Weāve been changing managers in Limerick better than I change my socks since 1996. Doesnāt/wonāt work, as Iāll try and explain herein.
Neither am I too big a big fan of whom is perceived as TJās nemesis, a certain. Mr. Kiely (credit where it is dueā¦great commentatorā¦ and seems to be giving more balanced comment on our footballers more recently, credit where it is due), but this comment from his recent, erstwhile, interesting article, āthey might consider forgetting such a [sweeper] system and going with what is traditional Limerick hurling.ā
Iāve been following Limk hurling for well over 40 years, and could Mr. Kiely or anyone else on here, please tell me what ātraditional Limerick hurlingā is? What is it? If it is anything, or there at all, isnāt it something given our track record of success that we should be trying to avoid???
Yes, I can remember Grimes, Cregan, Hartigan, McKenna, Foley at no. 7 (Sean, btw), Enright, Liam Oā Donoghue, Jimmy Carroll, and Ciaran (yes Iām sure Iām missing a few). But does a dozen truly great players constitute a tradition?
Itās not a āsweeper-systemā or ātraditional Limerick hurlingā that need to be put at logger-heads with each other. The key issue, and Iāve mentioned this before is, intelligent hurling. We in Limerick are not intelligent hurlers. We simply do not hurl intelligently.
Go back the years, and even look at my list of names, how prolific forwards have we produced? Cregan could hurl anywhere, even corner-forward on āstupidā teams. McKenna was an anomalyā (6 All-Stars in 3 different positions). But why havenāt we ever had good corner-forwards in Limerick hurlingāa la DJ, Seanie O Leary, Johnny Flaherty, Noel Lane, Jim Greene, Pat Foxā¦? And I could name 30 more from every county bar Limerick. Hint: supply!
It is because we do not hurl intelligently.
In the modern game, you need to be able to combine, switch and swap, the sweeper system with intelligent stuff (15/15 (15/12), but what you nor I donāt need is to go back to ātraditional Limerick hurlingā, because it doesnāt exist. Perhaps in Mackeyās day (RIP) it did, but Iām not in any rush to go grabbing a shovel. And if I were, Iām sure a pen-pusher wouldnāt be of much assistance.
shoulderghost (Limerick) - Posts:667 - 25/04/2016 14:15:41 1849182
Jesusā¦ 
Shoulder ghost has conveniently forgotten Donie Ryan to prove his argument,
I thought traditional Limerick hurling was whack it??
Whack it - One man, one ball - Hip and Whip.
Tis all the one.
Let the ball do the work.
My primary school teacher never tired of saying that and he was a Limerick man, he was also a stickler for keeping your eye on the ball and used the story of Pat Hartigan losing the sight of his eye as an example of the terrible things that can happen, Jesus I would have ran through a wall for him, I nearly did once, he was a hard man, one day he was dropping us home from a match, for a gag he said he was just going to slow down passing my house, coming up to the house doing about 20 miles an hour I opened the back door and steeled myself, poor fucker nearly lost his life 
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Lads gone quiet
Nothing to reportā¦not for you anyway, Iāll save it for me.
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No harm for once Joeā¦no news is generally good news re the Limerick senior hurling setup.
Waiting for the grass to grow up now.
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It should be shoulder high come mid June pal!
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7 weeks this weekendā¦thereās no fear of the long grass growing pal.
3 rounds of senior championship before it as well I believeā¦ no harm.
Itās all set up we are written off as a shambles after the league, discontent in the camp and a tactically inept managment on the sideline.Cork will beat Tipp in a shootout and will be praised and hyped for their resurrection only to walk into a punjabi stake pit that is the Gaelic grounds in the heat of an Irish summer, vindication yet again for Teege and the bandwagon will be kickstarted.So shall it be written so shall it be done.
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We can always dreamā¦
A trip to Ibrox is more likely thoughā¦Weāll meet up for a pint either way kid.
This course of events wouldnt surprise me in the slightest. I was talking to a very good judge of hurling today and limericks problem is they tend to always have one big win. Get to a Munster final and you could be talking beating Wexford or some Minnow to get to an all Ireland semi final. You can bet they wonāt put two good performances together. If you look back to this point last year and 2014 we are probably a bit a head with the likes of brynes, Nash and the two lynches added in. It pains me to say it but Limerick need tipp to win and get a good hiding before losing to Dublin again. Be done and dusted in July and get things in order next year.