yeah, fair point. on review, they stuck with hannon for far too long, he didn’t puck a ball after the knock. could have moved Kyle back or brought on Nash sooner. Hannon was just about getting away with it laying off hand passes to the nearest player to him, tbf nothing broke down due to him, so you could see perhaps why they hoped to get him to the dressing room and assess from there. disrupting 3 lines on the field to keep him on the pitch might be the one big regret Kiely has from the day.
the main regret from the season surely must be the lack of depth, despite what has been written about us. HF options capable of covering ground needed. GH’s touch was off in the first half too, perhaps he was injured rather than tired.
our first instinct is to run the ball when receiving possession (WOD shipped some hit from Donnelly in the first few minutes, and hid from nothing thereafter) whereas KK were a lot quicker to hand pass to a free man, consequently they dished out more hits than they received. KK are just a lot more comfortable in that environment than we were.
in a way, it’s what we thought we’d get from galway last year, they were just too long on the road to dish it out. like you said, a learning process. LK v KK will be worth admission in the NHL next year, even if the rest of it is a glorified blitz.
Is it fair to say that KK having to deal with a replay before the quarter final and Galway the same before the final was a major factor to Limericks success in 2’18? Was that discussed at all?
