Kilmallock manager Ger O'Loughlin says his team didn't do themselves justice against Ballyhale Shamrocks in Croke Park yesterday.

Following their 12-point loss to Henry Shefflin & Co, the Clare All-Ireland winner told the Limerick Leader: "We are better than we showed today - we are down but in saying that it has been a tremendous season.

"That was the first introduction to Croke Park for the majority of lads and it's so different, it's so wide and long and it was a disadvantage because when you consider Ballyhale have so many Kilkenny fellas who are up here so many times every year.

"You can make excuses but on another day if they went over we would have been a lot closer but we didn't deserve it because we were too flat.

"That was very disappointing - in the first half the seeds were sown, we hit 10 wides and we needed to be getting at least 5/6 of those and they were scorable and then we would have been going in very much in contention but we didn't take them and in the other days we played we took all them."

"You need to take those against a team like Ballyhale and we didn't and then we were flat in the second half - there is no doubt about that, we just couldn't score and that's a disappointment.

"Once they got the two points at the beginning of the second half we were really chasing our tails and from that point of view its very disappointing - I don't think the heart went out of us or anything but we needed those two points to bring us back into it."

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