Hayes’s best position and I’d reckon his favourite position is Centre Forward but it probably does improve the team to have his ability to run forward from Wing Back. I didn’t think DOD was great this year so maybe Lynch could go back to midfield again ahead of him but he was so good at CF previously it’s unlikely.
Will you enjoy the fine weather and occasion for fuck sake and not be wasting your time trying to sow it into fellas’ 
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But two of them are football die hards and were hoping Hego would win a munster title with the footballers
Kilkenny didn’t have the forwards to win it. The starting 6 Limerick forwards scored 1-18 from play between them, Kilkenny’s starting 6 scored 2-7. Against Galway in the Leinster Final, starting 6 Kilkenny forwards scored 0-3 from play and in the loss to Wexford 1-4.
TJ scored a combined total of 0-1 from play across those 3 games. He’s still the main man upfront in terms of winning possession and orchestrating the play, but whatever about the hand, the legs aren’t quite what they were and opposition teams are shutting him down as a scoring threat from play. The other Kilkenny forwards are not stepping up to the plate consistently.
You need a lot of scoring power to get the measure of that Limerick team as they get scores from everywhere and are not reliant on May one or two individuals.
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I am working mate, self employed!! The lads are big boys, I am having lunch out the back with a beer and will be on the blitz later.
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It was hurling porn.
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I would counter that kilkenny did not have the players from 5-9 to win it. Kilkenny forwards got brutal supply compared to Limerick forwards.
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No puck put strategy seriously hindered them.
They got four momentum killing wides too. Two early enough in the second half after the first goal were poor efforts.
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The performance from Kyle was at another level seeing he was struggling just into the second half, he was carrying his leg. Tom was massive, Hegs unreal, Hannon and Byrnes though. When the fat was in the fire Hannon went to another level, he came out with everything when under huge pressure. The points from O’Neill and Boylan were just massive.
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There was a great moment late on where I think Hannon lost the hurley and was under savage pressure only to give a lovely little hand pass out the side and open up the play again. I must look back for it again on the recording.
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You’re the same lad who agreed with @Big_Dan_Campbell that Hegarty would never make it.
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I think I’ll go for a pint
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This is it, winning a close contest is way more satisfying than destroying teams like we did in 2020/21
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Kilkenny had 4 or 5 bad second half wides, which sucked the life out of them a bit. I’d suspect Limerick had an extra gear if they needed it though and Kilkenny had got a few scores there. I don’t know how Kilkenny went in only 4 down at half time. A tribute to their resilience and culture. Limerick looked on the verge of burying Kilkenny in the first half a few times when they stretched it to 6. That Limerick side doesn’t generally get too many goals or go looking for goals to kill it off the way Cody’s great side in their pomp did so they can let sides stay in it.
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Nothing worse than looking forward to a big steak only gor the server to tell you its off the menu
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“Lost the hurley”
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I qualified that at the time. But who gives a shit, I’m very happy to be wrong and happy to hold my hand up any time I am. If you want to add another one I also said that Nash looked too uncomfortable at corner back and I couldn’t see him make a corner back and leave him at wing. And look at them, two of the greatest hurlers of modern times who have revolutionised their position.
I’m lost for words for Hegarty yesterday. I think it was the single greatest all Ireland performance of all time.
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Put us up on his back and carried us through our rough patches.
I have to say Kilkenny are magnificent. Their attitue and doggedness are a tribute to Cody.
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