LIMERICK U21 BOSS John Kiely highlighted the switch of Ronan Lynch to full forward as key in beating beat Clare to claim the Bord Gais Energy Munster U21 hurling title at Cusack Park last night.
Limerick trailed by four points early in the second-half but turned the game around to fashion a 0-22 to 0-19 victory.
And Lynch was central to that as he hit 0-13, with eight of those amassed in the second-half.
“They have a lovely running game and we found it very hard to contain it,” said Kiely.
“Again we had a lovely lead built up in the first-half, we let it slip before half-time.
“At half-time we very worried. We were after playing with the breeze and we were two down and not going great for the last ten minutes before half-time.
“We had a good few concerns and made one swap – Tom Morrissey came out in the half-forward line and Ronan Lynch went inside.
“That was probably an important move at the time.
“Ronan got going inside, Tom got going outside and against the breeze it nearly suited us,” he said.
For Clare hurling the loss for their U21′s who were on the verge of their fourth Munster crown in a row, typified their year.
The reigning All-Ireland U-21 champions upset the odds to defeat Waterford in a scintillating Munster semi-final in Ennis and their manager Donal Moloney thought his side had believed the hype after that.
“They emptied themselves and that as much as we could ask for.
“It was difficult to manage expectations after the Waterford game.
“That game was a reflection that we out-worked a Waterford team that was probably off colour on the day.
“That was the reality of the game, we always knew that as a management team and Limerick were always going to be a different proposition,” said Moloney.
Some bad decisions at crucial times cost us dearly. But, what kind of asshat boos their own team? Stay at home next time you bunch of morons.
Shane, I could be wrong but I thought they were booing the late tackle on Cooney(I think). He put in a grubber kick and was hit late.
Only caught the last ten mins they were booing because carty got body checked after he tried his grubber.?? Unless I missed something in the first 70 that they were booing at ?
They were booing the opposition kicker and all, that’s no way to behave. It was embarrassing listening to the Connaught crowd
Awfully disappointed for Connacht. Thought they could build on their win last week, but much like us, are pretty inconsistent when it comes to getting it up for the non-derby games. Peaks and troughs…
Terrible result. Gutted.
Connachts form returns!
Why not? We could do with a roof though! Connacht don’t do fair weather supporters
No need for a 20k stadium now ?
Why not? We could do with a roof anyway…Connacht don’t do fair weather supporters
Im sure if ye gave connacht 20k seats from thomand ye would still have trouble filling it . Munster fans only do the big European Cup games and there will be no more of them this season.
Munster have been the top attendance drom7 of the first 12 pro-12 games look up the pro-12 official site!
Sale in a few weeks there Harvey .
You can’t go by the official figures as they include st holders. Munster on the past perhaps but over the past 3 or 4 years their attendance figures for non European cup games and Leinster games have been poor.
The largest attendance of the season was at the Aviva stadium which was a home game for Leinster.
Sorry Lad, Munster don’t have the highest attendance :-(
Ok noggy that maybe so but I’m sure it’s the same criteria for every team in the pro12 with that in mind Munster are still the top attendance in 7/12 games do far. And btw why does dome dick feel the need to have a cut at Munster on a totally Connacht article. Sad pr1ks
I never mentioned anything about Leinster. You tried to state a fact and I simply corrected you on it.
No noggy what I said is that Munster have the top attendances in7/12 pro-12 games. Google pro12 attendances and check the attendance each week. I also said that not you but some d1ck had too try too cut Munster on a totally Connacht article. Place is full of jealous a55holes. This is no forum for anything but Connacht till that muppet too his swipe.
@ Harvey
Philip, you are an embarrassment to the real Munster fans.
Who are you.
Ah now Philip. The dogs in the street know the official attendances are pure fiction.
Shane,Go easy on philip he,s a walter mitty type character who claimed to have played for munster to add a bit of weight to his pathetic posts on these articles.probably another bandwagon jumper who has to prove his undying love for the red army by slating the other three provinces.
That is all.
Christopher tobin started it
Connacht were betrayed by a lack of patience in the end. After the clock had struck eighty minutes, there was only one viable option for Connacht and that was to hold onto the ball at all costs, no matter how little metres they were making with ball in hand; they had to hold onto it and just wait for the opening. For an inexplicable reason they grubber-kicked it, away, with the inevitable consequence that Edinburgh regathered it and sealed the match.
Irish sides have to remember the powerful lesson from that painful extra-time defeat to the All Blacks in November 2013: the All Blacks held onto the ball, without deviation, for however long it took to get over the Irish tryline. They never, even for a moment, considered kicking the ball. They knew their job, they knew that it would be attritional and involve only inches at a time, but also that it was simple and achievable. Irish sides, historically, have had a habit of running out of patience, losing their concentration and deviating from the path. After putting in some effort, we change tactic and opt for the Hail Mary pass (in rugby terms, kicking the ball away in hope rather than expectation). Our characteristic lack of patience has to be tackled once and for all.
Totally agree
This is where experience is needed.
Let’s not forget carty is barely out of his teens.
Dreadful performance tonight but in all fairness at least this year we can chalk it down to a bad day at the office, last year it was par for the course.
Agree but Alan Solomons said the before the match that the game would be won in the half backs and Marmion then found it difficult with Clyne. When Cooney and Carty came on the go forward improved. Lam later said that Marmion was carrying a knock. Can never understand why coaches all send subs on around the 60 minute mark?
Can everyone stop talking about munster? Its like Munster are the Muslims of the rugby world. Ye were not playing tonight boyos! We are Not FIng Interested in talking about ye.
Henshaw is some player,he has to stay at Connacht so they can keep improving!
Attendance for tonight ?
Both main stand and clan stand sold out. Not quite sure how that tots up in numbers, but probably slightly over 5000. In that weather.
Dont Shane, you will hurt Philip’s feelings!
He will cry himself to sleep in his Leinster PJs
Too many penalties at scrum time killed us. Caught pneumonia I think, terrible conditions but they were the same for both teams. No excuses, we didn’t front up.
Well played lads regardless.
Philip Ryan is a troll. I have no time for trolls.
Yeah…but never against those elements. The sensible option was to get the ball off the park and bank a very valuable point . Would have been subside if there was a turnover and didn’t get the bonus point.