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Limerick Hurling Thread 2025

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Replying To hillman:  "the bull is going to be a serious hurler for limerick going forward.. watched him against patrickswell in ncw he has it all strength, speed ,hurling skill and a great reader . how many other counties have him ,cathal oneill ,adam english and o connor comming up? we are in a great place"
Agree we have very exciting prospects from midfield up but wondering about backs really. Last couple of years we have converted a few forwards (Barry Nash, Kyle Hayes & Barry Murphy) to good effect, but wondering if any backs showing up in club games, best I have seen is Chris Thomas of Doon but think we need a few more

higgins (Limerick) - Posts: 259 - 11/08/2025 12:39:49    2631087

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Replying To hillman:  "the bull is going to be a serious hurler for limerick going forward.. watched him against patrickswell in ncw he has it all strength, speed ,hurling skill and a great reader . how many other counties have him ,cathal oneill ,adam english and o connor comming up? we are in a great place"
Limerick have a depth of talent in some areas (i.e. forwards), but would seem to be lacking depth in some areas. I feel we need a new number 5 and number 6 who could really challenge the status quo if we are to become contenders again. So far I haven't seen any exceptional candidates putting their hands up throughout the club championship to date, but their is still games to be played.

LimerickandProud (Limerick) - Posts: 201 - 11/08/2025 12:41:48    2631089

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Replying To Yadse:  "Doon look like a really well coached side. Knew what they were about, well set up, and with a good support cast (especially the two Thomases) to take the burden off the likes of Adam English
Or maybe its because Patrickswell apart from the first quarter looked clueless - lamping high ball into Gillane seemed like their only tactic. Lynch was reduced to taking pot shots.
The weakness of the current senior set up is that the Well only have to win 2 games to qualify for the knockouts but on this performance they will be struggling to stay up. Ballybrown will be looking forward to playing them

Adare v Mungret was a right good game. Adare a little unlucky to not win it. Kearney looked like a definite one for the future."
While Adare are just surviving at Senior at the minute, they have some really really strong hurlers coming in the 16, 17, 18 and 19 year old bracket and will be strong again in the future.

Past hurler (None) - Posts: 977 - 11/08/2025 14:12:14    2631115

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a great friend of mine who has a great understanding of the game once told me, " hurling backs will always be around but natural forwards are a rare thing "

hillman (Limerick) - Posts: 30 - 11/08/2025 21:26:19    2631211

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Replying To CTGAA10:  "Hoping Kyle recovers from what looks like a serious injury.goes to show there are more serious things than sport,even though we don't think so at times."
Wishing him a speedy recovery. It looked like a very hard and dangerous hit, as he was bent over with his head exposed.
I don't think it takes an injury to a GAA player to remind us that there are more serious things than sport. We all live in the real world and plenty face far more serious issues than this in their lives.
Sport is a wonderful distraction from the issues of life at times and the GAA is far more than that of course, with it's massive community and social impact.

WanPintWin (Galway) - Posts: 2487 - 12/08/2025 10:27:49    2631319

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Replying To WanPintWin:  "Wishing him a speedy recovery. It looked like a very hard and dangerous hit, as he was bent over with his head exposed.
I don't think it takes an injury to a GAA player to remind us that there are more serious things than sport. We all live in the real world and plenty face far more serious issues than this in their lives.
Sport is a wonderful distraction from the issues of life at times and the GAA is far more than that of course, with it's massive community and social impact."
There's an awful lot of unnecessary hard hits going on in GAA that if they occurred on the street would go down as assault too

Bon (Kildare) - Posts: 2488 - 12/08/2025 13:11:02    2631389

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