Limerick GAA Discussion Part 2

Ennis is great if it's sunny. Just one big street of pubs with everyone outside have the craic. Plenty of handy public transport from the city too.

Only problem is it's probably the only place that ever truely sells out.

Was looking at the club championship fixtures this morning.

NaP vs The Well to kick it all off on a Friday night in Claughaun.

Some crazy matchups there if everyone is at full strength. All Stars all over the pitch tearing into each other.

I was thinking that. Will they definitely start?

Exactly, it will be Kilkenny and Galway again next year, so what they be preparing for would at least be a quarter final spot again, different with Munster though, and as you stated injuries is the biggest hurdle

Ah but sure we have loads of money,we're allowed throw the ball,we had a camera in the Hogan for analysis,we came out 70 seconds late for the second half of the semi final,Nickie stopped play to fix his contact,we play on the edge,we wouldn't play with the wind in the 1st half on Sunday which was totally unfair,Kk didn't get a 65 which seemingly was much more important than the one in 2019 when we were beaten a point,oh and the latest breaking news Limerick take performance enhancing drugs.Jaysus lads u couldn't make it up,feel free to add any other reasons to the above to explain 5 out of 6 All Irelands apart from the fact we have the best hurlers and management team as that doesn't count.Enjoy the celebrations people we waited long enough,looking forward to next year already.Luimneach abu

What else are they going to come up with 😂 any fear that we just have a good team

The camera thing is hilarious.

Mostly hilarious that it has taken this long for someone to "think up" an idea that is already common in some any other sports.

Can't wait for the day a hurling manager decides to sit in the stand like a rugby manager and then has to be marched to the Wicklow mountains to be burned in a giant Wicker Man.

Tbh I cringe when anyone predicts Galway (I'm from Galway)to win against decent opposition in a knockout match, let alone against Limerick, one of, if not the best team ever, we are just so inconsistent. I just can't understand how anyone could have predicted Galway to beat Limerick, pretty much everyone in Galway travelled in hope, but, with very little expectation for the semi final. I think Kilkenny's performance in last year's final, raised expectations that they might be able to put in a similar performance, plus they are Kilkenny, so they are always expected to perform.

Galway would struggle to beat any of the Munster teams (apart from Tipp, who we have no trouble raising our game for).We struggle to beat the likes of Dublin and Wexford, so how can we be expected to beat a team like Limerick! Kilkenny are at a similar level to us, but, have more belief and that never say die attitude that all Kilkenny teams have, which works against most teams. I'd agree that getting our of Munster is likely to be Limerick's most difficult task, once ye get to Croke Park ye really open up.

Might be naive but I think we'll be fine in Munster next year... I'd expect Reidy and Quaid to play this weekend which is a bit disappointing to see. Surely they could have had one extra week to enjoy their All Ireland win.

Every manager has someone in the stand - they're all mic'd to a manager or the coach - usually the coach. That's a club level thing for a long time, never mind county level. If you paid more intention to hurling rather rugby you'd know that. But that's your own decision.

I'd say they'll probably have to given how competitive a championship it is.....very harsh scheduling you'd have to say.

Not guaranteed. It took a flat-out second half performance from Galway to draw with Dublin and thus avoid missing out on the Leinster final spot. Equally, had Wexford not contrived to lose a match they should have won handy against Dublin in the group stages, they rather than Kilkenny would have been in the provincial final.

Lot of permutations in Leinster next year. Wexford will be under new management, Dublin should see a second-season improvement under Donoghue, Kilkenny have a fair mixture of aging players and younger ones, especially forwards, not good enough (as seen in the final last Sunday), so need to rebuild. Galway also need to rebuild; there's good quality there but Shefflin has to have courage and drop some of the older, established players and give these their chance.

Just to let you know.

I know you're joking, as was I, but I'll bite. Wouldn't be my opinion - actually never wrote that - but it might be some people's opinion. I've heard Eoin Kelly say it.

For me, Brendan Cummins would be the most skillful player I've ever seen for a number of reasons - including what I've seen him do in poc fada, football, and hurling. Just haven't seen such an all-around skillset in a player before. But I've seen more of him around Tipp than a lot of players who I wouldn't see so much around the country. And I don't think it's possible to be the most skillful player player at a time or ever either. It's more a level you reach rather than one player out on their own. There are a few in every county who reach a level above everyone else in terms of hands. And I think when it comes to skill in hurling, usually we mean hands and wrists usage with the hurley. That said, hurling is changing big time in the last ten years. If you look at players like Callanan and Gillane in their prime, their running off the ball before possession is at a skill level rarely seen in other players. It's probably the top skill for a forward now given how compact the zones are. It's getting like watching a wide receiver in the NFL.

He also started a thread about the dreadful abuse of referees but when Liam Cahill was sanctioned for abusing the ref it was wrong…amazing double standards really.

You have a very short memory for someone who is commenting on the recent championship. Liam Cahill won his appeal on this as there was no evidence to back up the referee. (You can google this like I did just now)

Quite remarkable really as these are usually done on technicalities but there was no evidence that Cahill abused the referee. So there are no double standards from the other poster.