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05 May 2026
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Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
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the right to be joined again by the two boys Pat and John we only had one real big hurling game to look back on and Pat it's fair to say the Green Army is back in all their glory yeah look fantastic performance a great performance not going to get too carried away either because if you look back at their last championship win lads before Sunday do you know what game that was the Carr Cameron
the Cork-Hammerin, where we won by 16 points. A very similar game in some ways. And what we've done, maybe, as people in Limerick, when that happened, we all pat ourselves on the back and tell us how great it was and what was going to come.
If you had taught me back then, after that night, when we bet Cork by 16 points that we wouldn't win a game again in our next four games, I would have said, you're absolutely mental. There's absolutely no way that could happen. So I think that's a good reminder for this year in terms of that we still only have two points on the board. They have to get at least one more win. Hopefully two.
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Chapter 2: What were the highlights of Limerick's performance against Clare?
He's a proper hurling nerd, isn't he?
I mean that as a compliment, like. You know, I'm the same. He's a deep thinker of the match and any little one percentage or half percentage that he can get. And even, you know, you go back to the time of when we were playing and, you know, they were tweaking with the ball, like, you know, putting different kind of lettering over a ball and giving away balls. But I could see his just...
persona just kind of just really kind of just the big smile he sees when he when interesting enough he said Sean Sean Finn said that he uses actually a 36 or a size 37 yeah on that one John right we played Cork in 2018
in the second round and it ended up as a draw if you remember that one just before Kyle Hayes got the drawing point in over maybe there was 72 or something minutes gone Seamus Hannity got a point on the 45 he wheeled backwards to hit it over the shoulder and Sean Finn was on him and Seamus Hannity got the point and it was a great point and the next and Sean maybe that's 2018 I'd say Sean maybe had maybe a 34 maybe a 35 inch early at the time he came into training the week later John with a 37 inch early
and he said and one of the lads says to him where are you going with that long yoke and he says he said I was I was an inch off getting a block on Seamus Henry the other day he said it's not going to happen again he said go away and he even mentioned that he mentioned the other day because he plays forward sometimes with his club dinner he'd come back down to maybe 33 or 34 it's gas isn't it
Yeah, because he said, it's regards to the position you're in. And I think it's such an interesting takeaway from a fellow cornerback that's saying, this is what I need for this position. And some people even talk about Stephen Bennett and Shane O'Brien and Peter Kate with smaller hurlies in the forwards.
They don't want to be hooked or blocked up and they're probably never taking shots more than 40-50 yards out so they probably don't need them.
But a big part of Limerick's play is working out to the back and working those 5-10 yard passes in those triangles that we've seen time and time again and even to be using a 36-37 because you wouldn't be mindful of the flip side of that that he could potentially get hooked or he could get turned over. He actually played up in
the forwards with his club? Oh, he sent her forward for the club a good bit, Pat, wasn't he?
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Chapter 3: What does the future hold for Davy Fitzgerald's coaching career?
Yeah, just, you know, looked a little bit off it. And look, it changed kind of, It was kind of clear all over. They laboured all over the pitch. You know, never kind of could get up to the... After that kind of first 10 minutes, you know, they could never kind of get to the pitch on it. You know, even from... You know, they just needed one goal to kind of ignite the crowd. And it just never came.
It never came.
But just one on Clare. It was hands-off, Harlan. That's not what a Brian Lawton team does, especially not against Limerick. It was hands off. It was really nice stuff. It was a challenge game feel to it from their respect. Limerick were good. There was venom and intent in everything Limerick did. But Jesus Christ, Clare made it fairly easy for them.
Well, I did say in the article last Saturday that, you know, you can get sucked into, you know, I wouldn't say an element of kind of softness or kind of, you know, complacency when, you know, all the talk all week was that Lynch and Galan were out. I mean, that happened to us in 2007 when, you know, when O'Keefe was out, The Rock was out, Alpine was out. And,
That can bring an element of pressure and know that, right, Jesus, we have to win today or we have to perform or we have to get something out of it. You know, considering that Limerick are down Lynch and are down Galan. And, you know, only too well. Sometimes it don't work out that way. It didn't work out that way Sunday. And it can go the opposite way where it can...
inspire the other team who are missing two big players to go we're going to roll up the sleeves we're going to drive on here we're going to up the ante even more we're going to go an extra 10-15% you know and that was evident by the performance of the likes of Aidan O'Connor Shane O'Brien Cottle O'Neill I mean the ground Cottle O'Neill covered was just off the charts lads he was everywhere
He just, I mean, I would love to know the numbers after the match in the ground that he covered because he was just, you know, full forward line, half forward line, midfield. He was back in his own full back line, half back line, you know, and Clare and him were kind of, they were kind of waiting for things to happen.
You know, it was kind of like the first 10 minutes played out or the first five, six minutes played out right. But they just never got an opportunity to get the crowd involved. And the crowd were waiting to get involved. But that opportunity never came.
Pat, just on Clare, like I couldn't believe there was a thing in the ninth minute there. I just said me notes here. Clare at sixes and sevens. Quilligan gave a puck out to Conor Cleary. Conor Cleary gave it back to Quilligan. Quilligan put it over a man, back out to Conor Cleary. Then Conor Cleary and Ryan Taylor ran into each other. There was just, there was crazy stuff going on.
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Chapter 4: What rule changes are being proposed for Hurling?
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Just a couple of quick bits, lads, to put a bow on that game. And you can come in at different stages if you want. I definitely think, Pat, that Limerick are making the hand pass a hell of a lot more obvious than it would have been in previous times because it's been pulled more. I don't know if you noticed that. I could call very few throws the other day or what looked like obvious throws.
I definitely think it's been coached to make sure that they're not giving away soft frees, even if it means that things are slowed down a bit. I definitely think they're making it more obvious, shall we say. A couple of other little bits and pieces as well. Um...
Barry Nash should have walked, lads, realistically, be it a second yellow or a black card for that pullback in the 16th minute on Tony Kelly.
That was very strange because he was on both.
Yeah, well, he had to walk one way or the other.
He had to get one of the cards. He had to get one of the cards.
See, the thing about the deliberate pulldown implies that you have to go to the ground. So Kelly didn't really go to the ground, but it was still he pulled him back. And it was a goal-scoring opportunity. It's a yellow and a penalty.
And he's off. Well, it was definitely a yellow card.
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Chapter 5: How are player selections impacting team dynamics?
And to be honest, you could have picked maybe seven or eight to get man of the match. But my pick would have been the Bull O'Brien.
I thought Shane O'Brien was man of the match as well.
I thought he was unreal.
From minute one to the last minute.
Yeah, he's finding it hard over the last 12 months to get men in the match. He's had some very good games. The first day against Tip last year, I thought he was close as well. He got one, two or one, three. Even down against Watford, he got four or five pints the next day out. And his form kind of tailed again. But this year now, even against Cork last week, he was good.
Unlimited amount of ball in. I think there's so much more in this fellow even. There's some potential in him. He's a young man and he's a serious player. And I think we're starting to see it now bit by bit. And I think over the first two games, he's been one of the top performers. Like we said about Damon Burns.
And I just think even, even the other day, like I went through his performance, six points and six shots, fouled for one, two, led the line without Glenn. There's even more in him. There's even, that's maybe 70 to 80% of this fella. This fella is, there's no reason to call him the bull and that's because he's an animal. And he is, he just has it. He just has it.
And there's going to be, I just hope he continues it now. And I hope he even looks for more within himself because I just see a lot of potential in him now.
yeah Mull Limerick player right on the line maybe veered the other side of the line at different stages the other day Adam English probably should have been wary of the fact that he was on the yellow you just can't tackle like that when you're on the yellow Would you worry about their discipline at all? It's two games in a row they've had a player sent off. But that's kind of the way they play.
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Chapter 6: How do injuries affect team strategy in Hurling?
if common months are final stage now or semi-final if they're playing at Galway Hagerty was loose enough under a high ball as well on the yellow too now you know and if they're down to 14 that's what could prevent them from
from getting back to the Holy Grail again so yeah I think it's probably one area probably he will home in and would you see that Pat or what way would he you know would he would he home in on the discipline area and say look lads you know it's probably an area we kind of we've got to be careful in going forward
Yeah, I think it'll be mentioned anyway, because look, even if you could say there are different incidents in terms of Keynes was kind of, you know, a one-off, if you call it.
It wasn't from tackling, whereas as you're talking about Adam's one, it can come sometimes from trying to find and get and having these tackle targets throughout the field that you're kind of leaving yourself open to a few yellows because you're trying to get tackled so much. But it'll be mentioned, right? But look, I think they'll learn from it.
You'll always hear John Kiley and him speaking after games. They're trying to learn from different things. That'll be one thing they'll learn from. And you're right, John, even from an international sports point of view, that's the last thing you want to see
going into big games is to worry about someone getting sent off because usually if you get a man sent off now by the time Adam got his second job the other day the game was probably over but it did cost us big time against Cork I'm not saying we would have won the game but it was a big it's a big handicap to have to be down to a man we even saw that last year blowing Innes when Shane Barrett got sent off and Cork were well up that Innes made a big comeback you know so or Clare made a big comeback in Innes that day so that can happen but look
it's something they'll talk about but I don't think it's too big of a worry yet I don't think they're nasty swipes what Keynes people could argue it was but I think he learned from that I think it was his only red card ever with Limerick and he's playing 10 or 11 years so look you learn and you move on one other good positive for Limerick the other day the bench made a good impact I know we were well up at the time Fintan Fitzgerald got a great score unbelievable score next ball he got popped it off to Edna Connor good score Dan Morrissey was very good and he came on Ethan Hurley got a block didn't he for a score as well yeah
Yeah, and you would have had, even in Limerick, you know, a point of view like Eden Hurley from Newcastle West, Fitzgerald is from Munger, Hugh Flanagan from Garry's Plan, none of those three clubs would have had a fella playing with Limerick in a good way. Jim Bob Ryan would have been Garry's Plan, right, maybe since 2017.
There hasn't been a Munger player in a good few years, maybe since the Begley's, you know, and Newcastle West even further beyond that. So it's good to see these players coming through. Obviously, Dunderage hasn't been great the last couple of years, but good to see these players coming through and playing well in a big game.
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Chapter 7: What are the implications of the GAA's broadcasting decisions?
I didn't see it. I didn't know it was a dare act.
It was a bit like Conor Lean's pull on Robbie O'Flynn at the end of the All-Ireland final. You kind of don't see it until... Very hard to see. I didn't see the colour of that looking at it. I looked at it three or four times just on the TV. So, like, it's easy to see it when it's slowed down, but Rodgers wasn't even calling for it, lads. Do you know what I mean?
So, maybe he... It's very clever, like, really quick and then let go and you can see the jersey coming out, but the referee obviously didn't see it.
It'll ring a lot of changes the next day, I'd say, Clare.
Just it'll have to be a fair bit of corrective surgery.
I think we'll see a lot of changes the next day. I think they'll look at tip in the Watford game the last of the last. I think we'll see a lot of young fellas playing the next day. I think they'll go with pace. They'll say we'll try and run a tip like Watford did in the second half. I think you'll see stretch starting. I think you'll see Meehan come in. Meehan or Galvin. Maybe O'Neill.
Meehan never saw him in it the other day, lads.
No, very strange.
You know? Very strange. Yeah. The one worry I'd have for Clare, you know, Another big part of the game today is being able to adapt mid-game. Clare seemed to be set in playing a certain way. There's a tendency where they struggle to be able to adapt in the way the opposition set up or to counteract what the opposition do on the daily.
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Chapter 8: How do fans perceive the current state of Hurling?
It took, like, it was, I think it was Limerick's drop-off in the third quarter that allowed Clare back into the game, more so than Clare really getting stuck in. It's probably the worst performance under Brian Lawn, I'd say. The worst championship performance anyway. And it's going to be, yeah, like he said after the Warford game as well, that they had the perfect schedule.
And they did, they had two weeks between games and two weeks to the next game again, like, so...
I think we'll see for tip and clear in the next round I think we'll see a plus one on both sides because I think at least one of them will do it Will John Conlon play? He might play as the plus one. Yeah. Because Clare, obviously, they've 6-51 conceded in two games. Tip have no win and conceded a big score in the second half.
And if they look back at their best performance last year, it was when they went with an extra man back there. So I think that game, I think myself personally, at least one of them two teams will have a plus one and then it'll force the other team to have one as well. So it'll be who's able to use it better and do it better.
You're on about you coming back in. Will he go the opposite way in defence and go with McInerney and Conlon?
Well, I think McInerney will definitely start anyway. And I think the only way he goes with Conlon, John, is if he goes with a plus one. Could be wrong on that now, but we'll wait and see. But Conlon didn't even come on the other day.
He's never went with a plus one though, Pat. Really, like an out and out. Plus one, me eye is a sweeper, it's a sweeper. He's never, he's never, and like that goes back to, probably goes back to the Davey Fitz thing as well, like, and that Clare playing a certain type of way, but jeez lads, it was kamikaze stuff the other day at different stages. It'd be fascinating to see what sort of surgery.
As I said to you before, sometimes the best position you can be in after a baiting like that is having not been even on the paddle or not seeing a minute of game time. Because you have no bad marks to your name. I agree with you, Pat. I think there'll be a good few new faces in, particularly around the middle. I felt sorry for Sean Rennie.
He couldn't get into the game at all after a brilliant game the first day. It'd be interesting to see whether he keeps faith with him as well, you know?
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