John Kiely was at a loss to explain Limerick's below-par performance against Clare.

"It wasn't a good performance but the rationale behind why it wasn't a good performance, we will have to go and have a look at why it wasn't a good performance and look at were there elements of our gameplan we didn't get right, were there elements of our physical preparation that we didn't get right. At the moment I don't have those answers," the Treaty County boss said.

"The players are frightfully disappointed - that's it in a nutshell. They know that they need to regroup for the next phase and they will," he vowed.

Limerick will now have three weeks off before facing either Westmeath or Carlow in the All-Ireland SHC preliminary round quarter-final.

"We will prepare for it the same way as we would any other game," he continued.

"We will do the exact same review on today as any other game and take it with the same degree of seriousness that we would all games all year. I would reference the game against Antrim in the league when we didn't do anything else different and got our performance right.

"We will take this extremely serious I can assure you that because the prize is too massive for us and for them because I am sure that's where they see their ambitions as well. It's all eyes towards that game for the next three weeks."

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