Limerick GAA Discussion Part 2

7 of the team from last year's final starting against Cork. Cian Lynch on the bench and will be great to see him get a bit of time.

LIMERICK (AHL v Cork): D. McCarthy; S. Finn, R. English, A. Costelloe; D. Morrissey, D. Hannon (c), C. Coughlan; D. O’Donovan, B. Murphy; G. Hegarty, D. Reidy, T. Morrissey; A. English, S. Flanagan, O. O’Reilly.

Subs: J. Power, C. Barry, R. Connolly, M. Houlihan, C. Lynch, G. Mulcahy, S. O’Brien, A. O’Connor, D. Ó Dalaigh, J. Quilty.

Three city players, and even if it was just one, there'll be 5 give or take (probably give) come championship time.

Hegarty is the only city player on the team unless you don't know county from city. I'm not talking city division which covers rural areas like Patrickswell. Any place that has farms isn't the city. Even Na Piarsaigh is semi rural.. The Dempseys being farmers.

There is no point with Peggy. Goalposts will just keep getting moved.

I know loads of people in the towns and villages close to Limerick who are city people and plenty the other way round too. Means nothing these days.

Na Piarsaigh is a city suburban club with some rural hinterland in Coonagh and Meelick / Redgate,hence the Caseys and Dempseys. Monaleen is the same ..its got urban in Castletroy ,Newtown and rural in Monaleen. Mungret the same ..but more rural outside of Raheen.

Old Christians , Ballinacurra, St Pats,Claughaun are true city as were the defunct Treaty Sarsfields,St Michael's and Young Irelands and Shamrocks ect.

Patrickswell,Ahane,South Liberties are in no way city.

Hello again, disgruntled Clare person. No one said Ahane was city; it’s East Limerick. If you were from Limerick you’d know this.

Secondly, it’s not up to a disgruntled Clare person what constitutes a city club.

A game of two halves for sure. Cork seemed to have a more full strength team in the second half. Limerick died off really and had a lot of changes in the end. 22 points over a game is low for us but all in all it's a similar pattern to last years league games. Solid 40 to 50 mins then a dip. Great to see Lynch back.

Sure we beat ye in the league last year too. Means very little.

2 wins in the league won't be the worse outcome. The league is irrelevant when it comes to the championship. Look at last year's league for example.

Again, disgruntled Clare person, how does this concern you?

I thought hannon was immense he was missed badly when he went off. hegarty and o donovan very good too with respect to some of the other lads I think they've been tried a good bit, I'd love to see the likes of fergal o Connor tried at cb and throw in the likes of Shane o brien too why not? awful to see o Flynn getting injured I hope he recovers quickly. on cork itself I think they have a lot of players at the same level but still have issues to sort out but think it'll take more time.

we were missing so many last night for whatever reason but naturally the replacements aren't as good we're talking about some of the best players that we've ever produced so obviously big boots to fill

Time will tell. Cork very much still depends on Hoggy.

In fairness there was far more to it then that , in 2003 after they drew with Waterford in a Munster championship game a few of the players were spotted in town drinking that night, it led to a huge how dare they moment in the local media, which put them under huge pressure before they even started

Lost the reply narrowly, the following year lost to cork by 1 point in the Munster championship who blew everyone away that year winning the all Ireland, lost to tipp in a qualifier by a point that year too , they had no luck and always seemed to be under the gun unlike this current Limerick team

Should be a good one all right with a good attendance.