I made a couple of posts defending a trio of good hurlers from Cork and there’s been a mountain of nonsense spoken since.
Coleman and Fitzgibbon were winning All Stars and deservedly so when they came on the scene in 2017/18. They haven’t gone backwards since in a hurling sense nor do they try any less but they’ve become less effective as the game has changed beyond all recognition with the middle third now full of lads built like and acting like Rubby League players. Neither Coleman nor Fitzgibbon are that. They want space to express themselves but unfortunately now every game feels like 20 a side with all the throwing, rucking and running into each other that goes on. It doesnt suit them and thats the long and short of it.
They’d have been multi All Stars in the 2009-2017 period.
Agreed but that doesnt take away the fact they are quality hurlers.
They ought to have their All Ireland from 2018 but we all remember the refereeing prank that went badly wrong in the closing stages of that years All Ireland Semi Final.
Wasn’t it Rice and Fennelly retired Cha Fitzpatrick. The man himself described it as ‘one of their strides being two of his’. Tom Kenny/Jerry O’Connor leading on to Rice/Fennelly and then Woodlock/Shane McGrath was what changed midfield play from lads striking the ball to breaking tackles and carrying. Limerick have kind of gone away from carrying with DOD and WOD and are more traditional if anything; a stopper and a striker.
To be fair pal, I think the only thing that’s happened is that you’ve shown you don’t really know what you’re talking about.
But you might fit in well here tbf, there is a legacy of certain users burying their head in the sand and refusing to ever admit defeat despite being demonstrably wrong by everyone. And I guess that’s admirable to a point?
I went and had a look at the great tipp 2014 team. Some smashing players there to be sure but they’re also carrying about five or six players that wouldn’t get into the current Clare team. That’s an indication of the difference in standard.
I’ve watched the last 10 minutes from that semi-final on YouTube. That little phase starts with FOTF Darragh Fitzgibbon knocking over a trademark score. A soft one given against Eoin Cadogan for non-existent steps, although the Limerick’s could argue that Mark Ellis had fouled Dowling in that move.
I would expect Fitzgibbon to score 4 points at least. However, I also expect the Limerick midfielders to hurl a lot more ball than him. If he proves me wrong, I’ll happily admit it.
I like Coleman too, I just don’t think it’s really fair to ask him to compete with Hego on puckouts when surely Downey is the man for that job (I imagine that switch very well will be made beforehand).
