A game where both half backlines will dominate. Will come down to three main match ups - which keeper is likely to not fuck up and whether Reale and Hickey can nullify DJ and Eoin Kelly’s impact or whether Jerry O’Connor and Derek Lyng can nullify Carey and Lynch.
Relocating Clancy to half forward will be the move that gets @eoghanruadha over the line here, that 3 man HF line will spoil and disrupt @glasagusban’s HB line all day long + they’ll win plenty of ball. Midfield is very tight but @eoghanruadha will just shade it, some fellas would have you believe that Carey & Lynch would lord it over a combination that has 8 all-Ireland winners medals between them. Kelly and Carey will then do untold to that FB line.
Lyng and O’Connor would be a fine midfield. O’Connor’s pace and Lyng’s all round game would work very well together. Glas has two very good hurlers in midfield and would win on pure technical ability but I doubt there is a midfield which would “lord it” against Eoghan’s two. I’d certainly prefer to be relying on Lyng and Gerry stopping the two boys that Reale/Hickey to limit DJ and Eoin Kelly all things being equal.
Also very hard to have full faith in Ciaran Carey as a 10 pointer when you have seen him in championship hurling where he had the towel thrown in early in the second half and gave up marking/tracking runs to allow a far inferior hurler stick over points for fun. Mercurial is all well and good but for every game it will win you it will also cost you.
It’s a tactic he’s used consistently looking to get the anti Limerick vote, now he’s doing it for what he considers the weaker opposition so his path to the final will be easier.
