I’ve already outlined my opinion that the league winners ought to be simply that, whoever is high of the desk after all of the video games, and you then open up an additional two or three weeks.
It isn’t that groups need to keep away from to attending to a nationwide closing, however with championship solely two weeks away, should you do get to the league closing, preparation-wise and attempting to get the group collectively, it’s arduous.
Limerick have named a really sturdy crew. Perhaps 12 or 13 guys that can be there or thereabouts as championship starters.
An excellent welcome again for Sean Finn is that he’s right down to mark TJ Reid. That can be a severe battle. He’s in at full-back, you’d usually see him corner-back however the man has the physicality, he has the hurling.
Within the Limerick full-back line alone, Mike Casey and Dan Morrissey are usually not that includes, so should you’re Sean Finn, what a high quality participant he’s however he’s practically beneath stress to try to preserve his place there with everybody round him going so nicely.
Cathal O’Neill is right down to play wing-back alongside Diarmaid Byrnes and Declan Hannon, two-thirds of the half-back line now we have seen for quite a lot of years. He has most likely been Limerick’s finest participant of the league thus far and once more might be beneath stress to make championship. The identical with Adam English.
Limerick and Kilkenny have each gone actually sturdy so there’s good intent there to see.
It’s arduous to see something aside from Limerick coming by it. I’ve seen them thrice this 12 months they usually have been getting stronger week by week. This might be the 12 months that they’re at their strongest.
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I believe Sunday is a superb alternative for Tipperary. Tipp are the final crew out within the Liam MacCarthy as they’re not taking part in the primary weekend (21 April).
They’ll have just a few guys, relative newcomers, that may need to show some extent to Liam Cahill. The likes of Sean Ryan, Craig Morgan getting back from harm, they may need to be on the championship crew.
It’s an important alternative for Tipp to actually go at it. We gained’t know the groups till later tonight and I at all times suppose the assertion of intent is within the crew you identify, do you actually need to go at it?
I believe Liam Cahill will actually need to go at this, they’ll need to get to a league closing no matter who’s in it, as a result of they’ve that further week’s grace.
The flip aspect of it’s they’re taking part in a crew in Clare who, in my view, have the second-strongest panel within the nation. It relies upon once more how Brian Lohan names the crew.
If Clare and Limerick had been to win you’d have a league closing with them and two weeks later you’ve got Clare and Limerick within the championship once more.
In the event that they did each get by, it could be arduous in charge both crew perhaps not absolutely going at that sport figuring out that the large one, the championship, is coming in two weeks’ time.
Limerick: N Quaid; B Nash, S Finn, A Costelloe; D Byrnes, D Hannon, C O’Neill; W O’Donoghue, C Lynch; G Hegarty, A English, T Morrissey; A Gillane, D Ó Dáilaigh, P Casey.
Kilkenny: E. Murphy; S. Murphy, H. Lawlor, T. Walsh; D. Blanchfield, P. Deegan (c), C. Buckley; C. Kenny, J. Molloy; A. Mullen, J. Donnelly, B. Ryan; E. Cody, T.J. Reid, L. Hogan.
Shane McGrath was talking on RTÉ Radio 1’s Morning Eire
