Yeah Mellerick is a defender. Belongs in the full back line but like Joyce, he should have been given a chance at centre back during the league. Very smart hurler and a hard worker but just not cut out for midfield.
Horgan and Fitzgibbon are almost immune to being taken off when theyre playing bad. Hoggie I can understand from a sentimental point of view but sentiment wonât get you wins. Heâs also going off the boil with his free taking.
Coleman to midfield or 11 yeah, again should have been tried out in the league but wasnt.
Not sure what the story is behind the scenes but someone or plural is causing a mess. Granted if you dont have the men you dont have the men but the recent Cork minor and u20 teams play a million miles closer to the current Limerick team than what their senior peers do. Something massively wrong there. Lads like Joyce and Barrett are nearly standout performers for Cork week in week out as such a young age because they clearly have the proper approach still in them but unless something is changed theyâll lose that raw edge they had underage.
Cork could sell free takers they have so many of them. Sign of the problems tbh, they have too many lovely snappy hurlers and no brute freaks like Hayes, O Donoghue and Hegarty
Coleman is a brilliant out and out hurler, theres a few more as well but thereâs a lot of lads there trading more on pace I think. Kingstonâs striking and finishing is class, Joyce is absolutely brilliant as well.
Watching the Waterford v Tipp on TSG last night. Even the Tipp young lads seem more physically developed than Cork. Waterford have big powerful hurlers too. Theyâll hive Cork an almighty pasting as well
Good coaching and hours upon hours of work put in has gotten those three players to the level theyâre at today.
Hayes is probably the most natural of them but if youâd seen the other two coming up through the ranks, or at club level, you wouldnât have picked them out as current leading lights of the game. They had certain key attributes back then alright, but their hurling was a mile off.
Thatâs true but sometimes I can see the original loopy stick pass costing the recipient momentum though so the recipient goes back rather than drive in a 50/50 ball.
Seems the whole thing is to avoid 50/50 situations.
Iâm wondering is it some kind of take on the Eamon OâShea Tipp teams, but they threw it around in the final third
Yeah you would wonder what the story is conditioning wise. I donât think anyone expects Tim O Mahony and Darragh Fitzgibbon to look like Kyle Hayes and Will O Donoghue bulk wise but the two of them look skin and bones in comparison.
Canada didnât face New Zealand and Jonah Lomu in the 1995 World Cup. Canada were in the same pool as South Africa and Australia and eliminated at the pool stage.
Obviously Kinnerk is doing an outstanding job with Limerick but the S&C is just unbelievable. Everyone of them can run like a middle distance athlete and the power to win their own ball. Basically any game plan will work when you have that like Kilkenny back in the day. Must be serious knowledge on the S&C side to ensure the balance between gaining weight while also improving the running side
I see I misremembered kielyâs quote from yesterday, third in seven months, not seven total. Barry Murphy and Brian OâGrady are the other two. Canât recall if Dowlingâs injury was also cruciate, the main problem was cartilage I think. I still think thatâs a high enough rate of cruciate injuries over a few seasons.