Limerick GAA Discussion Part 2

You might be over doing it with 40. He might only be able to endure having about 37 'shades' violently knocked out of him. However the idea is sound and should be acted upon. That is the kind of conduct up with which we should not put.

So how do we expect tomorrow to go folks. I think Clare will have a right go at it and keep in touch until the last quarter until we pull away and win with a few points to spare.

I agree with the above comments re Clare.serious team on the up no doubt.

i think we haven’t shown our hand at all this year in any game , im sure Kinnerk and Kiely have been watching the improvement in Clare’s overall style of play and have a few work arounds that we will see tomorrow.

Massive occasion tomorrow, biggest crowd at a GAA match ANYWHERE since 2019…

I think Clare will struggle with the big occasion and we will hit a good vein of form and lead from the front.

Limerick by 7 or 8 .

HON LIMERICK

Impossible to call. i see it as 50/50. If Lynch and Casey were available i would definitely lean towards Limerick. In last years A.I. final Casey scored 5 in 25 mins, Lynch scored 6 throughout the game and assisted for 2-11, that's an incredible contribution by any means. Clare ARE the form team, and while Limerick's backs have so far been outstanding as a unit, the form of Flanagan,Hayes and Tom Morrissey is a concern. However, Tom really picked it up in the last game in Ennis so that's a good sign. Hayes and Flanagan were returning from injury so they may see a return to form tomorrow. The return of Donovan,O'Neill and Gillane is a massive bonus.

It will be interesting to see what Kiely,Kinnerk and co. come up with. The Clare fans strangely are not that confident, considering that the team/squad have done everything asked of them so far, and more.

Either way, both teams will still be in the championship this time tomorrow night, and in 3-4 weeks time the Munster Final will be a distant memory.

i can assure you we as supporters were fairly peeved that we never followed it up either , not sure if its interpreted properly though , its not a gripe against limerick its just that both tipperary and galway along with ourselves looked like they could dominate after we won our all irelands and never did where ye did impressively, especially last year

in fairness the kilkenny game in 2019 was controversial

i dont think that will be the grounds for motivation though, mick mackey will be happy with the pairing of the sides in the inaugural final named after him , he spent most of his life working as a van driver out of ardnacrusha power station ,terriosing anoying and slagging the locals for years , he loved the craic and the slagging side of the game , always believed that the cork lads especially christy ring took the game too seriously

no one will be taking things too seriously either side of the 70 minutes , the craic wiil be good just like he would have wanted it

cant go to the match that f....king covid,hope none of the teams gets a bad outbreak as it seems to be rampant

Your getting very worked up about an article you didn't even read.

Terrific score by Hegarty…..no denying that.

Thanks for those kind comments WSH. I have to say we were in the midst of a good few Clare supporters yesterday and they were, as ever, to a man, very gracious in defeat. Clare have a very fine team and all agree it was a tremendous game yesterday. In ordinary time it could have gone either way. TK was outstanding but several of his teammates played very well also. Seamus Flanagan was indeed exceptional again yesterday.

Definitely in favour of this 'Barry Nash for hurler of the year' talk as I've him backed at 66/1 ....hard to see Kelly not winning it though....not sure I've ever seen a better player.

I was at both provincial finals last weekend and, leaving aside the standard of the games there was a massive contrast between the two in terms of occassions. The Leinster final suffered from being in Croke Park. No more than 20-22 thousand there I'd guess, and a poor atmosphere overall. A lot of people more interested in going in and out for drinks than watching the match....coming back from half time 10 minutes into the second half etc.....the number of times I had to stand up to let people past....🙄

Total contrast with thurles on Sunday....fevered atmosphere in a full house....and just a fantastic occassion overall. Thank god for the Munster hurling championship.

A Limerick v Clare all ireland final looks a distinct possibly and if it does work out that way, you can be fairly sure it'll go down to the wire........as they say in racing, there is no more than the width of a cigarette paper between them.

That was a titanic battle on Sunday. It's a game we probably would have lost a few years ago but we have definitely become a team that knows how to win. Clare played very well and had a good plan. We struggled on their puckouts again. Their forwards worked really hard when we tried coming out. We used a lot of long ball to good enough effeflct I thought. Conditions were hard and we just never reacted to anything really. Some achievement to win four Munster titles in a row. I thought winning one 9 years ago was unbelievable!

We should be able to win it without ever getting into a panic. In fairness if we can win this by a few points we have no business being in an All Ireland final.