Met a good few of them out on Sat night in KK, they have had the last week off after the Leinster Finalā¦ Apparently its standard fareā¦ A week or twos break then train like fuck for 3-4 weeks until the AISF
Saturday was a blessing in disguise. Had we pulled it off we would now be playing Waterford whose work rate would have made sure we were fu ked after 10 minutes. We were nowhere near last years level. Sit back lick the wounds. Hopefully the minors can do something through the back door and weāll see the u21s this week.
As regards a change in management, I donāt know. Still too raw.
Henry still hasnāt forgiven me for the ball-hopping on hereā¦ He has me blocked from all his social media accountsā¦ @South_Limerick_Refer canāt we just be friends?
thought we prepared well. I thought we did a good job on Dublin. But we made changes and if you win theyāre great but if you donāt everyone questions everything. Thatās just the nature of it.ā
Wouldnāt fill you with faith that he could turn is aroundā¦
Stag was great crack in fairness. Galway is a great city. Wasnāt too disappointed going down. We were not goid enough to be anyway near croker this year
Either not fit enough or overtrained. Havenāt made my mind up about that yet. I know where Iād lay the blame and itās not all at Tjs door but the buck does stop at him if he didnāt have the balls to call a halt to the flogging
Iām not sure itās either. We donāt look a cohesive team at all. We donāt appear to have any system or style of play, particularly up front. Add to that lots of questionable selections, positional placements and substitutions and it doesnāt look like a fitness issue, it looks like a team thatās clueless as to what itās supposed to be doing.
Iāll tell you what TJās right hand man said going into the Clare gameā¦ He believed that if Clare had a full selection they would probably beat us, but the fact they are missing a few gives us a chanceā¦ Now, while this may or may not be true I thought it was a bizarre frame of mind to have going into, not only this game, but the season as a whole after last year. Clare have proved they are nothing special and for a member of management to express that - then add in the wild celebrations at the full time whistle - and it is clear these guys are out of their depth. And I know he said that for a fact ā¦ I was left reeling when I heard it, we may not be the greatest team in the land but on our day and prepared right we can rattle anyone and certainly have nothing to fear from anyone in Munster but when your management entered the season with that mentality you can forget about it.
That I agree with. Lynch won three or four balls and made a few runs. Absolutely noone running off him for support. Thatās just one example. I mean we didnāt even use Downes right in terms of his ability to lay off ball.
Overall we were jaded looking.