All Ireland Hurling Final 2021

[Doc_Piptorious]

Second half starting and Limerick get their first score of the second half within 30 seconds


3-19 to 1-11


and within another 30 seconds Limerick have scored again

3-20 to 1-11


a massive 15 points ahead now

[Doc_Piptorious]

Cork score and Limerick score

3-21 to 1-12


Cork playing for pride at this stage and almost an entire half to go yet

[Doc_Piptorious]

And there goes the doorbell on the front door. Sounds like pizza time

[Irishnev]

This Limerick team is crazy good.

As I said earlier, they have zero weaknesses and think I have never seen a team with such a mix of physicality and skill, and no small measure of mental strength.

Your All Black comparison is a great one.

Like you I have never seen a half of hurling with this level of prowess. Easily the best half of hurling of all time I think when you look at how Limerick have played and how good a team they are making look very ordinary in Cork.

Cork are in trouble I feel. They need this Limerick team to take the foot off the gas in a big way to keep the score respectable let alone to have a chance to win the game.

If Limerick come out in the second half and catch fire like this again, we could be looking at them winning the final by 20 clear points.

I’d say they are the best side in my lifetime - even with Cork, Tipp, Kilkenny etc. They are the perfect age and more titles in front of them.

My dad was saying you could take the best 15 players from around the country and they’d still not be as good as them

[Doc_Piptorious]

I’d say they are the best side in my lifetime - even with Cork, Tipp, Kilkenny etc. They are the perfect age and more titles in front of them.

My dad was saying you could take the best 15 players from around the country and they’d still not be as good as them

The all star awards should be easy this year. The Limerick starting 15 and that's it.

Was a stunning display. Have never seen a team as good as Cork, a team in many other years that would be good enough to win an All Ireland, get outplayed, manhandled, outfought, and out thought
as comprehensively as that.

Looking at the average age of this Limerick team, you would not be surpised to see them win the title next year and the year after that as well.

This Limerick team is scarily good in every single department and seem to be getting hungrier to win and more determmed to win after each title win. Just amazing how they have won three out of the last four titles and then each season start as if they are chasing a title for the first time. There is not even a whiff of complacency off of them after four excellent years in a row.

Thought for a long time that the dominant Kilkenny team was going to be the best team I was going to see in my lifetime, but this Limerick team is better imo.

[frank the tank]

The all star awards should be easy this year. The Limerick starting 15 and that's it.

Was a stunning display. Have never seen a team as good as Cork, a team in many other years that would be good enough to win an All Ireland, get outplayed, manhandled, outfought, and out thought
as comprehensively as that.

Looking at the average age of this Limerick team, you would not be surpised to see them win the title next year and the year after that as well.

This Limerick team is scarily good in every single department and seem to be getting hungrier to win and more determmed to win after each title win. Just amazing how they have won three out of the last four titles and then each season start as if they are chasing a title for the first time. There is not even a whiff of complacency off of them after four excellent years in a row.

Thought for a long time that the dominant Kilkenny team was going to be the best team I was going to see in my lifetime, but this Limerick team is better imo.

Only just saw that there was a thread for this.

Some display from Limerick. My brother is married to a Limerick woman who has now bombarded the family whatsapp with all sorts of non-funny memes. She's like a Man City fan.........they were grand all these years when they were ****e but now feckin unbearable??

All-black comparison is spot on. Cody may as well walk away now to be honest because Limerick could be doing a Bayern Munich on it and win another 5 in the row to go on top of the 3 in the last 4 years.


Jaco.....where are you from........Like ? Just saw the reference to Buttevant when scanning through the thread.

[Doc_Piptorious]

Only just saw that there was a thread for this.

Some display from Limerick. My brother is married to a Limerick woman who has now bombarded the family whatsapp with all sorts of non-funny memes. She's like a Man City fan.........they were grand all these years when they were ****e but now feckin unbearable??

All-black comparison is spot on. Cody may as well walk away now to be honest because Limerick could be doing a Bayern Munich on it and win another 5 in the row to go on top of the 3 in the last 4 years.


Jaco.....where are you from........Like ? Just saw the reference to Buttevant when scanning through the thread.

Limerick born, lived in a pile of places though. Limerick, a few parts of Cork, Clare, Liverpool, Stuttgart and currently just on the Cork side of the Limerick/Cork border. Some shorter stays in places like Galway, Dublin and Belfast.

Buttevant I mentioned as I like the village (pass through it a bit and have gotten cars serviced in the Opel dealer there) and also like the idea of declaring war on it just for the craic. The nearby Donkey Sanctuary is very cool too as are the herd of red deer in Doneraile.

[paulg]

Loving this thread. I've barely understood a word, as I know nothing about hurling.

In my defence, I'm English. An Essex boy, living in Kent, with a Cork surname. About as big a plastic Irishman as ever there was.

I've been working with a company based in Dublin of late and they love hurling.

[Doc_Piptorious]

Loving this thread. I've barely understood a word, as I know nothing about hurling.

In my defence, I'm English. An Essex boy, living in Kent, with a Cork surname. About as big a plastic Irishman as ever there was.

I've been working with a company based in Dublin of late and they love hurling.

Dublin + Hurling???? Does.....Not.....Compute


Also don't worry about being an Essex lad when it comes to understanding Hurling, probably puts you on par with the average Dub.

Don't worry Dublin lads will say the same thing as Dublin is generally a Gaelic Football county and not a hurling one.

But Odin knows I do wish Dublin had a hurling team that was good enough to meet Limerick in a semi or in a final as I would take more pleasure in them being thrashed than poor Cork.

[frank the tank]

Limerick born, lived in a pile of places though. Limerick, a few parts of Cork, Clare, Liverpool, Stuttgart and currently just on the Cork side of the Limerick/Cork border. Some shorter stays in places like Galway, Dublin and Belfast.

Buttevant I mentioned as I like the village (pass through it a bit and have gotten cars serviced in the Opel dealer there) and also like the idea of declaring war on it just for the craic. The nearby Donkey Sanctuary is very cool too as are the herd of red deer in Doneraile.

My brother lives in freemount..... Which is in the middle of nowhere but close enough to charleville

[Irishnev]

Dublin + Hurling???? Does.....Not.....Compute


Also don't worry about being an Essex lad when it comes to understanding Hurling, probably puts you on par with the average Dub.

Don't worry Dublin lads will say the same thing as Dublin is generally a Gaelic Football county and not a hurling one.

But Odin knows I do wish Dublin had a hurling team that was good enough to meet Limerick in a semi or in a final as I would take more pleasure in them being thrashed than poor Cork.

[paulg]

Dublin + Hurling???? Does.....Not.....Compute


Also don't worry about being an Essex lad when it comes to understanding Hurling, probably puts you on par with the average Dub.

Don't worry Dublin lads will say the same thing as Dublin is generally a Gaelic Football county and not a hurling one.

But Odin knows I do wish Dublin had a hurling team that was good enough to meet Limerick in a semi or in a final as I would take more pleasure in them being thrashed than poor Cork.

[Doc_Piptorious]

My brother lives in freemount..... Which is in the middle of nowhere but close enough to charleville

I was actually pretty close to there earlier on this morning as I was in Buttevant and in Liscarroll. Was in Charleville too actually, well I drove along the main street .

[Harv]

Different game I know, but couldn't find a Gaelic football thread so I'll ask here.

My Aussie Rules side Geelong has signed some young Irish hotshot called Oisin Mullin. Whats the craic with him? Should I be excited will he be a success like his new teammates Zach Touhy and Mark O'Connor, or is he likely to fail and go home with his tail between his legs like Stefen Okunbor?

[Doc_Piptorious]

Different game I know, but couldn't find a Gaelic football thread so I'll ask here.

My Aussie Rules side Geelong has signed some young Irish hotshot called Oisin Mullin. Whats the craic with him? Should I be excited will he be a success like his new teammates Zach Touhy and Mark O'Connor, or is he likely to fail and go home with his tail between his legs like Stefen Okunbor?

Cannot say how he will take to playing in the AFL but he is a bloody good footballer.

Not the biggest of footballers but is very agile, is a fast runner on and off of the ball and he reads the game really really well and makes a lot of catches and interceptions seem really ordinary through excellent positioning. Very good at keeping play moving and doing the simple things to a high level. A hell of a lot of Mayo's play from the bck came through him. He won the young player of the year award as well over here

But if he adds a bit more concentration to his game and puts on maybe 7lbs to 10 lbs of muscle ( which he probably will as he is only around 21 years of age) then he has all the tools to be a hit.