Good luck to limerick pity its not the best minors in the county playing tho

Snap09 (Limerick) - Posts: 6 - 25/06/2010 14:26:07    687047

Snap09 - which players are you talking about? - seems a pretty strong line up to me

DrHurley (Limerick) - Posts: 78 - 25/06/2010 14:28:41    687054

Well done to the minors last night. After a poor start they showed strenght of character to come back strong. Well done to Ger Hegarty and his selectors too.

drogba (Limerick) - Posts: 142 - 26/06/2010 15:08:57    687651

Good game of hurling last night. They fought back well and with a bit of luck could have won it.
There are some great young limerick hurlers coming through

declan30 (Limerick) - Posts: 652 - 26/06/2010 16:08:14    687682

hegarty who do you think you are.... you brought on mulcahy for five minutes and took him off again. you will ruin players by not giving them a chance and what you done must have been disheartning for the young lad. his playing outstanding for kilmallock seniors. what was dan morrisey and sean kelly doing on the pitch will somebody please tell me. trying this short puck out is a joke because hegarty you lost imerick an all ireland by doing it. its all politics at the end of the day and i wish no luck to a team with that john fitzgibbon will know what i am talking about. but after all the negatives there of coarse were the odd positive. some of these lads showed us that there will be a decent limerick senior team in a few years. dowling, hannon, m ryan are a few names that come to mind. ye showed great heart but we all know we werent kooking at the best 15 minors in the county and if we were who knows what could have happened

limerickeye (Limerick) - Posts: 38 - 26/06/2010 16:36:13    687700

Limerickeye you are way out of line to have mentioned a young lad's name like that in relation to your views on 'politics'. I can see where you might be coming from on this matter, but to suggest this so openly as to say the lads name on the forum is desperatly unfair on any 16/17/18 year old.

offwithya (Limerick) - Posts: 120 - 26/06/2010 18:27:11    687786

what they did to jake mulcahy was unfair. however his man did clear a few balls for the short time mulcahy was on. i don't think he is able for midfield, corner forward would have suited him better.

mr.gaa (Limerick) - Posts: 8 - 26/06/2010 20:10:48    687855

Well done to our minors good display and i have no doubt ye would have improved as the year went on had victory been yers Since this post started on 5=11=09 i i have stated many times about the conflict of interest regarding soccer and gaa this was mainly to do with the kilmallock lads. Now i here that r.egan and j.mulcahey this are going across the pond for trials i hope they both make it r. egan was straight up with management and withdrew months ago ----

123fedup (Limerick) - Posts: 225 - 27/06/2010 11:18:38    688103

i thought minors played well.some strange decisions made on the side line.we needed a goal towards the end and the man most likely to score had been moved to c/forward.disapointd with hannon,lookd like he only did it when he felt like it,what a pity cos when he did somthing he looked very good,don,t think he is suited to central position,maybe wing forward.fitzgibbon did very little,while ryan in the other corner wasn,t used enough.did anyone think aswell that some of the players were unfit ?

hectork (Limerick) - Posts: 1049 - 27/06/2010 19:50:41    688584

its a real pity it took Limerick so long to get going but over the 60 mins Clare were the stronger team and played more as a team. Limerick played more as individuals. On Mulcahy being taken off, he did seem completely off the pace for some reason but Limerick lost the midfield battle for the entire hour.

dingo1 (Limerick) - Posts: 281 - 28/06/2010 09:07:55    688845

mulcahy was a bit off the pace when he came on but he is not a midfield player more of a wing forward/corner forward. hannon is lacking in a bit of fire in his game. i have seen him a number of times and his not the type that gets involved and i have heard the same from people who have played against him. his is very good when he gets it into his hand and he certaintly has talent. i prefer to see him in the fowards.

limerickeye (Limerick) - Posts: 38 - 28/06/2010 12:19:06    689243

i wud have to agree on mulcahy,any time he plays with k/malock he plays at wing or corner forward.he had a great 21 c/ship so i wonder what happened.i wud also agree bout clare dominating in m/field.if clare had takn their chances early in 2nd half then the game wud hav been decided very early,thet had 5 very bad wides.lookn at things its not all doom and gloom,we do have some decent hurlers at underage namely dempsey,carmody,dowling and ryan(m/b).one other question i have,are their minor teams in fedamore,f/kilmeedy,d/athlacca and glenroe.if not who do the players from these clubs play with?

hectork (Limerick) - Posts: 1049 - 28/06/2010 14:19:42    689527

Fedamore have no minor team their players get permission to play with crecora and south liberties Kilmeedy are with knocknaderry f.castlemahon are called Deal Rangers D/Athlacca have their own team 12 aside Gleanroe are joined with ballylanders and i think Effin and are called Cushlie Geals

123fedup (Limerick) - Posts: 225 - 28/06/2010 14:48:53    689614

Very disappointing game, thought limerick had a good team this year to at least get to the munster final until i heard the tean that was being put out against a strong clare team. it was obvious from the kerry match we needed serious ball winners in the half forward line to get the ball into a dangerous full forward line and they just werent there, almost every puck out was won easily by the clare half back line bar one which was excellently cought by dan morrisy. Tomas ryan is a superb player but not in the centre forward possition where u need a big player to break the ball away from a dominent centre back, the other half forward seemed completely lost out there running around in circles for a large amount of the game. With that full forward line which could have done some serious damage the management team should have picked a half forward line to get quick ball into them. Hannon was quite enough by his standards and looks as if he needs a break to get his hunger back.

driveithome (Limerick) - Posts: 8 - 28/06/2010 16:42:14    689880

Re: 123fedup
I assume it was just a typing mistake on your part but its Kileedy that are with Knockaderry and Feoghanagh/Castlemahon, not Kilmeedy.
Feenagh/Kilmeedy are 12 a side, and Dromin Athlacca and Glenroe are also 12 a side. You're also wrong about Glenroe i don't think they're are amalgamated with anyone, according to the excellent Milford GAA website where there is a table of teams playing in the county and the south 12 a side championships.
To the best of my knowledge Cois Laoi Gaels are Effin and Stakers. I doubt Effin and Glenroe would be allowed to join anyway not having a common border? correct me if im wrong

offwithya (Limerick) - Posts: 120 - 28/06/2010 16:43:15    689883

123fedup killmedy are not part of the algamation deel rangers. this algamation is made up of castlemahon knockaderry and killedey. killmedy play with feenagh i think they also play 12 a side. quite a few players from 12 a side clubs surely algamations are better than 12 aside our counties best players need to be playin a higher standard no disrespect intended to the 12 a side clubs

centremid (Limerick) - Posts: 191 - 28/06/2010 16:52:32    689902

Two things will destroy hurling completely.

1 is this go games initiative where certain parts of the game are played as ground hurling. I like the go games, but not this aspect. What happens is, and i have seen it, is that at u14 level you have young lads who should by then be able to pick the ball on the run and strike off both sides pulling on the ball aimlessly and wildly, with no direction or skill involved whatsoever. If the ball does not come up 1st time, they pull on the ground with no control on where it goes or anything like that. All this is doing is breeding Junior B Players. Its terrible to see. And to hear coaches saying "pull pull!" or "if it does'nt come up the first time then pull on it!" is the worst type of advice iv ever heard! No...if it doesnt come up the first time, then try and pick it again! The days of flaking and pulling on everything is long gone and is terrible to see at u14 and u16 level nowadays. Ground hurling is an integral and important part of the game and a great skill but should only be used when absoloutely necessary. It stunts the development of good hurlers and encourages bad habits and panic in young players, who just want to get rid of the ball as fast as possible. It will lower standards considerably, wait and see in 3 or 4 years.

no.2 are these rubbish, irrelevant, horrible disgusting 12-a-side competitions. They will be the death of rural clubs. The standard is a joke, they are horrible to look at, they give a false sense of the game to youngsters, they do absoloutely nothing to develop good hurlers games, they do not develop tactical nous like positioning, awareness of space, movement into open space etc because it is a false game, with all the space.they encourage good hurlers to pick up bad habits, like a good hurler soloing the length of the field to score because he can with all the space. They amount to a puck around, simple as that. Horrible 11-a-side and 12-a-side competitions should be done away with as soon as possible and the clubs MADE amalgamate. It is for their own bloody good, even though some clubs dont realise that. You'll hear some backward cavemen rave about how proud they are to field their own 12-a-side team, but they will reap the rewards of that policy soon. Decent players will be ruined. Join up and give the lads with potential a chance to hurl at a good grade. Dont worry about lads who have no interest and are only playing for the sake of it because they'll end up on top of a tractor the day you need them anyway. Lok after the lads who want to play and who are interested.

fast_hands (Limerick) - Posts: 116 - 28/06/2010 17:44:12    690031

It was disappointing to lose the minor game. Clare were better but Limerick have beaten better teams in the past. The politics is just too much to stomach but in fairness it has been going on with that player since he was under 15. The management team were bought and sold but they are the ones who carry the can for the defeat with regrets.

Jake Mulcahy was in contention for the No. 13 shirt only IMHO but was thrown on at midfield to sink because it wouldnt do to have him doing well in the corner and being a threat for a place in a Munster final (A final that we never reached.).

Sandy_Lane (Limerick) - Posts: 32 - 28/06/2010 20:06:21    690235

"1 is this go games initiative where certain parts of the game are played as ground hurling"

Well when the clubs decided to adopt Lifting the Treaty this is what you get.....too late now u-12 is a shambles............

landengineer (Limerick) - Posts: 112 - 28/06/2010 21:11:59    690322

fasthands,

i have to completely disagree with your comments regarding ground hurling. Ground hurling is something which should be encouraged at all levels not just underage. A fast pull can drive a ball sixty off yards. Are you telling me that we should be discouraging lads playing a good low ball into the forwards? or should they waste time picking a ball up and then trying to strike it under pressure resulting in a stupid high ball going into the full forward line?

In the modern game, we have much fitter players resulting in a faster game overall. The ball must be played quicker and the ground hurling art needs to be rediscovered.

cove (None) - Posts: 683 - 29/06/2010 08:32:00    690441