Sprinklers the only concern for Limerick fans in facile win
The game had no such pretensions. It was a dud: emotionless, frictionless. If you drink stout at home you will know that sinking feeling when halfway through the pour you can tell that there won’t be a decent head on the pint. In the hurling league, the risk of a sour, flat pint is always present.
In the end there were just six points in it, but the final score bore no relation to the run of play. Midway through the second half Limerick were 14 points clear and started to empty their bench. Clare rattled off 1-9 in the last quarter of an hour, which was the same as they had managed in the previous 55 minutes.John Kiely was irritated afterwards about Limerick’s looseness in the closing stages, saying: “If we could control the game for 60 minutes, why couldn’t we control it for 70?”.
He made a sensational start, prowling across the half-forward line, mostly unaccompanied, and within just seven minutes he had landed three points, all from play. In the continuing absence of Aaron Gillane, and with David Reidy leaving the field early with an injury, Houlihan was suddenly given responsibility for dead balls too. A couple of his early frees were tentative but he soon found his range and finished the game with a dozen scores.
Cian Lynch made his first start of the year and he looked incredibly sharp, especially in the first half, scoring an early point and setting up two others. He moved with all his customary nippiness, but he looked more powerful too. With an hour in his legs they called him ashore.
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