All Ireland Senior Hurling Championship 2023 ( Munster And Leinster Championships,Liam McCarthy Cup)

Its why I think folk here are being awfully harsh on Clare, calling them mentally weak etc. at the end of the day it took probbaly the greatest save in the sport ever to deny them. Clares squad lacks real depth as well which made a big difference.

Confirmation bias perhaps. If Clare score that and bring it to ET or win it, are they mentally weak? Fine margins. Grand, Kilkenny went up and scored after it when Clare were demoralised but that's not enough to call them mentally weak. They had 2 already dragged themselves back into the game as it was, this would have been a 2nd time to take the lead after being 5 down.

Clare should not have been in the position to need that score.

They seem like the best team in the country right until the moment they have to to step over the line on the big big days.

People talk a lot about their games with Limerick but not one of those games was a true knockout game.

I imagine Kilkenny fans are feeling much like Limerick ones this weekend where it is hard to pick out any one player as a hero.

Why did lohan make those changes before throw in. When they reverted back to their more normal line up after half time they had the wining of the game……also an awful lot of mouthing and complaining from th banner lads and lohan liked like he was going to burst a blood vessel 🚢 a number of time….in Total contrast to lyng who looked like he had ‘ice in his veins’….to quote one of the weekends commentators.

Kilkenny have lost their last three AI finals by a total of 25pts and lost this years league final by 11pts. I dont think its as silly a prediction as you are making out, hes entitled to his opinon as much as anyone else is. Limerick are 4/11, its hardly a huge stretch to predict that they will win comfortably.

But so what ? Out of those 25 points, Limerick only account for... 2.

Of the 15 who started today, only 3 started the 2016 final - Scruff, TJ, and Fogarty.

Of the 15 who started today, only 7 started the 2019 final - Scruff, TJ, Fogarty, Huw, Deegan, Donnelly, and Mullen.

So I don't think 2016 and 2019 have much bearing at all. But since you went back as far as 2016 -

...open to correction, but as far as I can see we've met 4 times in C'ship - 2017 quals (+3); 2018 qf (-2); 2019 semi (+1); 2022 final (-2)

So from the last four C'ship meetings, not a single point in aggregate to separate the two sides.

Certainly everyone is entitled to their own opinion. The quality of the data being used to formuate the opinion, means that we don't have to take all opinions equally seriously though. Regardless of what happens on the day.

Or Canning.