Hello Mike I am very pleased with the way it went for us meeting KK because I think we can beat them.
You tend to be a realistic pragmatist overall Mike and partial to throwing a wet blanket over any flames of hope that might be starting to spark amongst the hopeful. Do you think for this week you might get in behind the team and demonstrate faith and optimism instead of a defeatist attitude? This comment applies to others as well as yourself Mike.
Wasnât there a gaggle of Limerick fans on here a few weeks back trying to convince me that winning u21s was worst thing that could happen Limerick?
First Sunday in October
They were pretend Limerick fans. Not real Limerick hurling men.
Go shit in your hat!
Canât accuse me if being in that brigade Iâm afraid.
Our team of earnest, but inexperienced young guns will only be coming into the reckoning around 2019-20 pal. Hopefully football will be extinct by then.
This is the biggest hurling match Limerick will have played since our last meeting in 14. It really could not have fallen better for us, a Championship match against kk in Nowlan Park , it doesnât come any better than that. I cannot see us lose. Management will have them ultra focused. This is the greatest opportunity handed to Limerick in years. We are going to win.
Hereâs hoping, mate. I think Limerick have an excellent batch of 18-23 year old hurlers coming through allied with some very good experienced players like Seamus Hickey and Gavin OâMahony. You are capable of competing for major honours and winning big prizes if you get a competent management team in place.
Is there a championship for u23âs, pal? From what you are saying Limerick would win it for sure
Unfortunately for Limerick there isnât and theyâd also be very strong contenders in a hypothetical U25 championship as their recent success in the Munster competition testifies.
The full draw is as follows:
Saturday, July 1
GAA Hurling All-Ireland Senior Championship Round 1
Offaly v Waterford, Bord na MĂłna OâConnor Park, 3pm
Referee: TBC
(ET if necessary)
Tipperary v Westmeath, Semple Stadium, 5pm
Referee: TBC
(ET if necessary)
Dublin v Laois, Parnell Park, 7pm
Referee TBC
(ET if necessary)
Kilkenny v Limerick, Nowlan Park, Kilkenny, 7pm (Sky Sports)
Referee: TBC
(ET if necessary)
200 posts on the dedicated Kilkenny-Limerick thread already. 
Championship really starts this Saturday in Nowlan Park.
And the Cody era ends. The school master from Galbally will put manners on him. Hon Luimneach.
Itâll be a beautiful old style hurling match, man for man, Cody doesnât do tactics and weâre too thick to understand them.
A damning indictment on the most successful stick hurling manager of all-time, heâs won 11 all-Irelands.
Backs up what I was saying last night to @anon7035031.
Itâs hard to know apart of me says
Limerick will win
