Munster SHC 2021

I think I speak for most sensible Limerick fans when I say I’d be happy just to beat Cork. They’ve actually beaten us in the championship more recently than we’ve beaten them.

On last year’s form you’d fancy Waterford to beat Clare (though I think the current Clare woes are overblown) and face Tipp in the semi. Think Tipp might have a HSE-style “transition year” this year. Sheedy has a lot of lads coming to the end and needs to blood young talent.

Limerick to beat Waterford in the final

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Weakness.

Weed it out @Breaking_my_balls

You say this every year though.
It’s admirable.

If Clare are anyway right they will beat Waterford .

Tipp will comfortably beat the winners of that

Lk will beat Cork handy .

Munster final will be close but Lk should win .

Wha

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The clandestine training sessions in Martinstown that Limerick have been doing during lock should be beneficial. The multi million euro gym JP installed last year was a genius move. You can only admire the mans foresight.

The league will be interesting but Tipp looked a spent force last year. Be a tough one for sheedy to balance out the bringing through of talented younger tipp lads and phasing out the older lads. If he can get another good year out of seamie then they’ll give anyone a game.
I’d expect Galway to be there or there abouts again.
Waterford improved a huge amount last year, be interesting to see can they sustain that and then add more to it as they will need to. I think its a big ask and they may slip back a bit.
Tony Clarey could give anyone a game on a day so long as Tony can keep at that level, which again is a big ask.
I don’t know about Cork. They’ll need a big revamp. But if it clicks quickly you’d never know. I’m not expecting much from them but the league will tell a lot.
Limerick will obviously be favourites again and rightly so, if it was a league format we’d win it, but you only have to get caught once. Back to backs are hard to do.
Can’t see where the improvement comes from in KK and can’t see Cody tweaking the system at this stage, but again on a day if TJ fires and they drag you into a battle anything could happen.
Wexford who knows. My gut would be that Davy has overstayed his welcome. But if he can get them back to two years ago levels and tweak the system a little then they’ve as good a chance as anyone. Think they are lacking two or three players though.
Don’t expect much from Dublin or the rest.
I think at this stage Limerick, Galway and to a lesser extent Waterford are the only teams with settled managers, styles, panels in roughly the right age profile and have no major question marks hanging over them

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It was very evident last year that Tipp had very little done . Their conditioning wasn’t great . . They still have a good cadre of older players and have decent young lads .

I would still fancy them to comfortably beat the winners of Q/f .

The reality is the IC hurling is going through a bit of a trough now .

It is, a number of teams are in transition and not at the level they were at 2 or 3 years ago. But history has shown that teams can turn around pretty quickly with an infusion of youth/fresh blood - the problem is that the new under 17s and 20s championships and no third level for two years means the platforms for player development aren’t there compared to a few years ago.

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Yeah but it was Limerick what dug the trough and pushed the other counties into it.

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Limerick have a fabulous bunch of players . Best in my lifetime .

Cork and Kilkenny are relatively poor . Tipp I think are in decline but best of Big 3 .

Galway are in decline . The team still dependent on 2012 - 2015 that won an AI in decline in 2017 .

Clare look a basket case

Waterford did great last year but I believe overachieved massively .

Dublin are mediocre and let’s be honest the big ball is the one .

Wexford had an awful year and maybe Davy stayed too long .

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On what basis do you say that? Clare have been shite and getting worse while Waterford last year were good and you’d expect them to improve further. Clare will surely improve a bit but I’d expect Waterford to beat them comfortably enough.

The game last year between the two was closer than people think . If Clare can get Conlan and Peter Duggan back & get Colm Galvin interested I still think they could win that . I don’t rate that Wd team really .

Tipp would never beat Limerick but are as good as anyone else. Were the better team against Galway until the sending off last year

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After seeing the improvement Waterford made in a year I think they will go up a level again. Clare have an awful lot of holes to fill. We will see I suppose.

That’s as much as any of the rest can hope for I suppose.

It’s rare enough that you’d have 3 or more teams at the peak of their powers at the same time.

The most exciting Championships tend to be when there is no ‘great’ team. Even in 2018, Limerick were good but are much better now. Galway weren’t what they were in 2017. But in 2017, Galway had no real challengers.

And I feel like this is often the case.

If you look at 2018 semi finals all the contestants bar Limerick have regressed .

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Hard to see Limerick getting tested. Nailed on cert to me.

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It can be a bit boring with Limerick dominating and winning everything.

Hopefully the other counties catch up, otherwise the Munster Championship could become like the Leinster championship of the Noughties.