What I’d like to know about Tipp’s performance on Saturday was why did they continually lump 50/50 balls down on top of Morris and Kehoe. Was their movement just poor or were Tipp’s half-back line just braindead. It’s hard to assess when watching on tv….
Yes, please put the windiest hurler of the last decade at centre back next year. Please do that. You fucking spoofer.
Any windier than Hannon looked in the forwards for Limerick?
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Oooft.
It is 6 time Munster and 4 time All Ireland winner Declan Hannon to you.
No, I’m pretty sure his name is still Declan Hannon and he was widely rounded on here for same before the transformation
Tipp are in a similar position now to where Toomevara were as a club around 2012/2013.
As my uncle from Toome (who’d be raw enough now) said at the time, “they’re on about blooding this lad and that lad but none of them are any good and that’s the long and the short of it”.
The only thing is now in I/C Hurling is that nobody else’s young lads are any good either so you should never be a million miles away.
Galway had 4 backs starting the other day north of 30 and what will Clare do when TK, SOD, Conlon, McInerney, Duggan and Cleary go in a few more years. Kilkenny will have to replace Reid x2, Walter Walsh, Buckley, Eoin Murphy, Conor Fogarty and Richie Hogan in next year or two while Cork’s best players this year were Horgan and Harnedy who are mid 30’s and have at most another year in them probably.
Wexford are totally fucked with all their best players 30 or more while Waterford are heavily reliant on a bunch who were breaking onto the team 10 years ago. Limerick’s golden generation are still that bit younger but they have nothing much coming behind them bar the odd exception like Adam English and O’Neill.
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Out of them Kilkenny lads youve named only TJ Reid and Eoin Murphy are guaranteed starters anymore, Kilkenny will be absolutely fine when they go.
Hannon was expected to lead the Limerick forward line as soon he came in as a teenager. He mostly played in a weak team and his early years were interrupted by injury. I think there was an unfair burden on him. When the team went well, especially under John Allen he was massive. The 2013 performance against Clare is often highlighted but the team overall was below par that day. We had two years in the wilderness then and he moved back to centre back aged 25/26 and has been the best centre back in the country since then.
Forde spent his early years in a much stronger team which should have been a benefit to him, he’s still in the forwards and he’s older than hannon now. He flatters to deceive still. I still think he’s a good player and too much is expected of him.
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POD says hello.
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It’s often forgotten but, in one of the most physical matches I was ever at, Hannon scored 5 points from play against Kilkenny in 2014. Fuck all windy about Hannon
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It showed some character from him after the disappointment vs Clare the previous year in the All Ireland semi-final.
No mean feat to lift Liam McCarthy four times since either as captain. Incredible leader for this Limerick hurling team.
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He’s going to be a huge loss against Galway. He is so key to how we play and, as @glasagusban has correctly pointed out above, he IS the best centre back in the game
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One of the best and most memorable matches I was ever at. Dowling with three from play off the best full back of all time at the peak of his powers too. It showed we were close to the top level. Hickey was incredible, cleaned TJ, caught ball after ball over his head in conditions no one should have been able to catch a ball in at all. 2015 and 16 all the more disappointing after it.
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Twas a savage battle.
An incredibly massive loss. Its very hard to know what they’ll do to try and replace him. It is very much a robbing Peter to pay Paul scenario. No easy fixes.
It was Seamus Hickeys greatest ever performance for Limerick. He was immense that day.
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Very few ever did a number on TJ like Hickey did that day
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Destroyed him in the air, motm with his hawk.
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Kilkenny are poor at present but will absolutely fucked when all the above walk away. Its a 20 man game and most of the above 7 are in their top 20.