With doubts about Limerick, Clare and Galway, this could be the season for ambush predators Killkenny
This year, Waterford and Tipperary produced their worst performance of the championship a week after nearly beating the All-Ireland champions; Westmeath produced their greatest championship performance in living memory against Wexford one Sunday and were relegated by Antrim a week later. They simply didn’t have time to come down and get back up again.
After the demolition derby of the Munster hurling championship, the thing that Clare and Limerick desired most – apart from the title – was a month to get over it. Second prize was a fortnight. After last year’s titanic Munster final defeat, Brian Lohan didn’t detect a pulse in players until the following Thursday week, two days before their quarter-final against Wexford. They barely survived.
For eight counties their seasons ended at the weekend, six football, two hurling. There are some teams still standing in the Sam Maguire who have next to no chance of winning it, but that is not true in the Liam MacCarthy.Limerick didn’t play at the weekend, but in a sense, the race for the title still revolves around them. They have been vulnerable for five games in a row.
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