I prefer vermouth and radicchio in risotto but you cannot have an Italian caper all the time.
On the other side of the draw stand Kilkenny with what looks like a distinctly ordinary team. They, not for the first time in their illustrious history it should be said, have caught the breaks in their province. Wexford took them to the brink for sure but then exited against Clare which suggests that Leinsterâs best might not shoot the lights out in Munster. Still, a bit of luck is no load and if Kilkenny came through to an All-Ireland semi-final without playing the any of the top seven teams in the competition they now have a chance to get to the final while avoiding Limerick. They are in the same boat as Limerick but do not appear as waterproof.
The same old same old. I wonder who âthe top seven teamsâ in hurling are. Presumably â if Kilkenny are not counted, since they cannot play themselves â the five Munster counties, Galway and Wexford. So the statement, always mad, counts also as completely nonsensical. And you would wonder about how many top seven teams, in this case, Tipperary beat in 2019, the most unprepossessing All Ireland campaign in decades.
But no matter. No one can unstupid the stupid. An ounce of bleeding, for a vampire, remains a ton of feeding. And who would feed a vampire but himself?
You would wonder. And you would conclude, moving to non sanguinary types of psychic disturbance, Eraserhead was only in the hapenny place. Yer man from Killoscully must be listening to a radiator from Killinaskully.
And sure you would laugh as well at the gerbil revolving in the radiator, speaking in all the North Tipp tongues, including High RĂĄimĂŠis.
Kilkenny are pretty unlikely to win the 2021 All Ireland. I would put them fourth in current standing â or joint third, at best, with Cork, who are the more likely winners next weekend. But this reality proves nothing. Limerick possess a âonce in three generationsâ level of talent. Waterford might be putting together not just their best team since the mid 2000s but their best team since the late 1950s. Cork are on the rise and appear to be assembling hurlers of substance who will actually work for each other.
Lovely hurling, so to speak. Such bitterness stands out still more in such a context.
Yer man is not a supporter/fan/admirer of Tipperary hurling whatsoever. At least, he has no interest in the team unless it is winning. He is âinterestedâ in (Tipperary) hurling in the same way Simon Cowell is âinterestedâ in music. Opportunism and manic self importance are the true drivers.
Most amusing, from a certain angle. Psychic disturbance, seen plain.
Kilkenny will be kilkenny they wonât give Corks forwards an inch, running game or not, theyâll get a whole pile more timber than Dublin who were pure soft on them.
Iâd fancy Kilkenny in a dog fight. Theyâll have to make it a dog fight first. But I think they will.
Waterford have had a better look at limerick than most and cahill will not be surprised by anything we can do. But I think if nothing else the run of games will catch both sides and I fancy a limerick kilkenny final. But both games should be good.
Both Waterford and Cork have serious momentum though and two sides waiting for them are short on game time. But both should be able to bridge that I think
Should be two great games, hopefully, in all likelihood.
If Kilkenny lose, there will no whinge about the gap. If Cork lose, expect a Kieran Shannon whinge about there not being a gap, despite so many prior whinges about there being a gap.
Your instinct to interrogate and educate is as baffling as it is admirable. Itâll be the death of you!
Would not be surprised which ever way the Cork/KK ties goes anything from wins either way comfortably to the drama of extra time.
Waterford hold a card or rather a key that they might put a score up against Limerick they wont match, one for the ages. Failing that, the best of the other 2 wont bate Limerick in a final.
Limerick and Waterford are the two teams there on some bit of respectable merit with common victories over a (extremely flaky but still) Tipp side along with wins over Cork and Galway respectively. KK fell over Wexford and beat a Covid hit Dublin who are a one trick pony regardless(Kenny all out to beat Galway) Cork have beaten Clare and Dublin to reach the Semi final it would make the 2019 Tipp side who scrope past Wexford and the mighty Laois blush.
Every day is a different day. Limerick are out in front, most deservedly, but no team is unbeatable on a given day. Context can be a 16th man.
A lot of people said to me recently that the 2021 Munster Final is really really hard to analyze, because of its topsy turvy nature. I disagreed. I think there has rarely been as easy a contest to analyze. The core was straightforward: Limerick were asked the toughest possible question; Limerick came back with the best possible answer.
I donât understand why folk are saying this is an ordinary Kilkenny team. Itâs a good Kilkenny team. Not superb like the class of 06 to 15. But still very dangerous and with the likes of Donnelly, Mullen and Eoin Cody having come through in the last few years, they have enough quality to go toe to toe with any team.
Correct ref KK forwards /theyâll attack our keeper from the get go
Pushing him to create dopey mistakes ref puck outs and will comfortably win in the long run , but rebels are rising and wonât be too long till Liam is safely snuggled up Leeside once again, Limericks purple patch wonât last forever but atm thereâs not a snowball chance in hell of any other team getting near them, not Cork or Waterford anyway.
Watching their 20s the other night, Limerick/Cork could be the next big hurling rivalry.
The one achilles heal of this Limerick team might be their propensity for âbad widesâ, its kind of a by-product of the style taking on shots from distance by isolating Hegarty and Morrisey in particular. An off day for one of the boys from distance shots can really suck the wind from the team in a tight game.
