Few thought two weeks ago that the champions’ emphatic title win would end up looking suspiciously like Waterford’s experience last year
It was last year’s league that crystallised doubts about the competition’s role in getting ready for championship.
Where that took Liam Cahill’s team is a matter of historical record: an unconvincing championship win over a Tipperary team that would finish the round robin with no points followed by a narrow defeat by Limerick, which was widely misread as proving the team’s credentials as the champions’ closest challengers.
That’s the issue for Limerick at the moment. Having convincingly won the league for the third time in five years in the context of dominating the championship during the same period, few thought that John Kiely’s team would end up exhibiting some of the same symptoms of malaise as Waterford last year.
They have also sustained injuries to two of the team’s brightest stars, Seán Finn and Cian Lynch, the extent of which have yet to emerge. The most positive aspect for Limerick is the three-week break until their next match.
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