The Weekend that Was: Young age profile combined with rising stars should ensure that Sunday’s defeat was a mere blip
Limerick’s Diarmaid Byrnes and Sean Finn dejected after the game. Will they be back with a vengeance in 2025? Photograph: Ryan Byrne/Inphosquad huddled close to the edge of the Croke Park pitch, near the mouth of the tunnel. They faced the Hogan Stand and started to clap up towards those in the seats.
They might well have been advised to also check what Patrick Collins was storing in his holster because Limerick could not counteract the Cork goalkeeper delivering rapid puckouts with the kind of ridiculous speed that suggested he might well be shooting sliotars out of a Nerf Pinpoint Blaster gun rather than using his hurl. Ping, ping, ping ...
The sheer physical size of the players was imposing but never has such a big team possessed such an array of silky hurling skills. Hurling or war, whatever way you wanted to engage Limerick, they could dance.Teams had to find a way to destabilise hurling’s green giants. It has taken years. Cian Lynch is just 28. Tom Morrissey and Seán Finn are also both 28. Gearoid Hegarty is 29, Aaron Gillane is 27, Kyle Hayes will only turn 26 later this month.
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