HANGING OFF HIS MAN THE FOOL:rage:
ye throw the ball 5 times
A lad who shows zero for his team mates in terms of movement.
seanie Tobin must have cried when he seen Kevin downes drive that ball 10 yards wide with all the time in the world. We are some shambles. Next youâd hope richie English will step up at 3,but weâre still short two fullbacks, two halfbacks, possibly one midfielder and fleet of forwards.
I would be hopeful Sean Finn, Colin Ryan, Barry OâConnell, Mike Casey and Andrew LTC can be in the mix up for the back line. I would hope with a proper run Alan Dempsey will come on, Browne looked shot of confidence but he will be okay. The forwards are a worry as Peter Casey and maybe Dempsey look the only one who can step up. The ball has to be in the court of Dowling, Downes and Hannon, do they want it or not. When you look at Maurice Shanhan who is bang average he girls up a storm compared to those three laDe. The first thing I would do is give Diarmuid Byrnes the captaincy.
ALTC wonât cut it in the backs. If one of Casey and Sean Finn make we will be blessed. Alan Dempsey shat himself yesterday. Heâs 24 or 25 and has been in and around the panel for 5 years under Allen, tj and o Grady and hasnât played a single championship or league of note. He isnât up to it. Good hurler but lacks the physically or pace for midfield. Downes is utterly hopeless. Just a poor player. Hannon used correctly in a proper system will do fine. Dowling for all his off field antics has his uses but Iâd be trying to mould ronan lynch into a hard working half forward and then you wouldnât have to carry Dowling.
I was sat next to a rather large girl last night from South Limerick, Fucking hell she had more passion than at least 10 of the Limerick starters, the poor girl was shaking right throughout the game and never ever lost hope, I was pure delighted for her every time Limerick got a score but it was one of those things that I knew wouldnât end well for her, at the final whistle she stood up and shouted âwell done Limerickâ, I hope she gets to see Limerick win an All Ireland in her lifetime,
If I was a single man I would have given her a ride to cheer her up,
If Downes put that over it was a two point gameâŚinstead they win a soft peno and itâs out to 4âŚwe didnât deserve to be within 10 of them but sport has nothing to do with what you deserveâŚDownes is done.
I think some context is required here⌠Clare are remarkable at systematic fouling of the man in possession, almost Tyrone-like. Always 2 lads in there, one holding, the other standing him up. Itâs relentless. And that is a compliment. Kilkenny have been doing it for years. Not scoring from play against Clare these days doesnât tell the full story.
The free count against them is where the detail is. Davy puts huge pressure on the referee to not give the free, and the ref wonât give all of them. The idea is donât let them in for a goal, weâll take our chances with the ref and force you to score from frees/out the field.
No real argument about the contribution from play though. Same could be said of a few others unfortunately.
I think Clare pretty shit at defending And no discipline. They gave away more stupid frees yesterday that kk have in 5 years.
Damian Dempsey has a better chance of making it than Alan Dempsey.
Byrnes gave a fucking exhibition in the second half. The best player on the field in the second half.
Byrnes, Hegarty and Barry OâConnell will be our half back line for the next 10 years.
We need to build from there.
Was talking to a Clare friend who was at the game he said without him Limerick would have collapsed completely. Imagine a HB line with Both himself and Gleeson!
To be honest the last 15 minutes yesterday was probably the best weâve put together all year. If the holy trinity on the sideline had copped on ( like everyone in the stands already had) to making Clare puck long, it could have been a lot tighter
Fuck it, at least weâre put out of our misery now.
There were a few of us in the Kinnane stand going absolutely mental with him alright
A right shower of fuckers the 3 of them and I mean that in a good way. A right bit of needle to them.
Badly need some more of that.