Cill Dara v Luimneach

[ardal]

scores lads?

[Captain Obvious]

17-12

[ardal]

Kildare?

Minutes to go?

[Captain Obvious]

Kildare won 19-12

[Syferus]

The Hyde for Sligo-Kildare, please.

[theticklemister]

Luimneach threw it away!!damn RTE 1 radio failed to cover extra time.

[Syferus]

Luimneach threw it away!!damn RTE 1 radio failed to cover extra time.

Was bemused by Jimmy's insistence on telling us the same four results every two minutes and not sticking with the ladies' man but then i switched over to Newstalk - they had the national rights to commentary on the game.

[squire_in_navy_slacks]

Poor Limerick threw that away.................................... alas sligo will fancy there chances against a highly over rated team

[Dinny Breen]

Actually Limerick didn't throw it away, they were tactically very astute but it was very negative and they were dropping 13/14 bodies behind the ball and Kildare struggled big time to break them down and Kildare were absolutely wasteful over the 70 minutes.  Kildare looked beaten with 10 minutes to go as they seem to have no answer to the mass defence but they dug deep and could actually have won it injury time. Kildare brought the game into extra time through sheer stubbornness, very proud that they never gave up and they Limerick were dead on their feet in the extra 20 minutes.

Play like that and Sligo will beat us but just delighted to be still in it.

[Captain Obvious]

Actually Limerick didn't throw it away, they were tactically very astute but it was very negative and they were dropping 13/14 bodies behind the ball and Kildare struggled big time to break them down and Kildare were absolutely wasteful over the 70 minutes.  Kildare looked beaten with 10 minutes to go as they seem to have no answer to the mass defence but they dug deep and could actually have won it injury time. Kildare brought the game into extra time through sheer stubbornness, very proud that they never gave up and they Limerick were dead on their feet in the extra 20 minutes.

Play like that and Sligo will beat us but just delighted to be still in it.

Tonight was Kildare's wake up call unlikely to play like that next weekend.

[LeoMc]

Actually Limerick didn't throw it away, they were tactically very astute but it was very negative and they were dropping 13/14 bodies behind the ball and Kildare struggled big time to break them down and Kildare were absolutely wasteful over the 70 minutes.  Kildare looked beaten with 10 minutes to go as they seem to have no answer to the mass defence but they dug deep and could actually have won it injury time. Kildare brought the game into extra time through sheer stubbornness, very proud that they never gave up and they Limerick were dead on their feet in the extra 20 minutes.

Play like that and Sligo will beat us but just delighted to be still in it.

Tonight was Kildare's wake up call unlikely to play like that next weekend.

Was Meath not a wake up call or do they have a snooze button.

[Captain Obvious]

Actually Limerick didn't throw it away, they were tactically very astute but it was very negative and they were dropping 13/14 bodies behind the ball and Kildare struggled big time to break them down and Kildare were absolutely wasteful over the 70 minutes.  Kildare looked beaten with 10 minutes to go as they seem to have no answer to the mass defence but they dug deep and could actually have won it injury time. Kildare brought the game into extra time through sheer stubbornness, very proud that they never gave up and they Limerick were dead on their feet in the extra 20 minutes.

Play like that and Sligo will beat us but just delighted to be still in it.

Tonight was Kildare's wake up call unlikely to play like that next weekend.

Was Meath not a wake up call or do they have a snooze button.

You snooze, you lose.

[The Burner]

Footballers are a credit to the county. The lack of support they get from the Limerick public is shameful and embarrassing. Those lads gave absolutely everything in that game and were absolutely out on their feet at the end. Just gutted they couldnt get the result. Ian Ryan just different class, Kildare basically had to put two men on him. Johnny Mac absolutely quality again. Would get on any team in the country. The Sheer Pressure and intensity they put on the Kildare forwards was great to watch. The players with injuries coming into the match battled bravely but were absolutely out on their feet, John O Riordan could barely stand. To the genuine Kildare fans who I met before the match best of luck for the rest of the year, to the 3 in front of me... there is only one thing worse than bad losers and thats bad winners, I thought the cheer that greeted Seanie Johnston was utterly cringe worthy. No doubt the "experts" will pay us the usual bullsh1t Lip service. Well Done Limerick A credit to the county.

[Dinny Breen]

Footballers are a credit to the county. The lack of support they get from the Limerick public is shameful and embarrassing.

Real shame as they put everything on the line, Stephen Kelly I thought was inspirational tonight, he lost it at the end but I would empathy with him but wouldn't have minded have seen himself and McGeeney going toe to toe as they looked they might at one stage. They certainly got the respect of the Kildare supporters last night.

Ian Ryan just different class, Kildare basically had to put two men on him.

Do you think? He was good but the reason Kildare had 2 men on him was every other Limerick player was in defence, would like to have seen him with better support but then he wouldn't have had the same space to operate in so he was good but definitely not different class.

thought the cheer that greeted Seanie Johnston was utterly cringe worthy

Bizarre statement, Kildare were losing the game and needed a spark of inspiration, to me it was quite simply the Kildare fans realising we needed something different and bringing on this guy who has been vilified from pillar to post was the right thing, many in Kildare don't agree with the transfer but nobody in Kildare likes the way he has been treated by the GAA, the media and in particular social media, he has become an anti-hero. And he and Fogarty gave us something different, he scored what I and everyone else thought was a brilliant point but it wasn't given but he worked hard and scored 2 good points. He wasn't game changing but his introduction definitely helped swing the momentum in our favour.

No doubt the "experts" will pay us the usual bullsh1t Lip service. Well Done Limerick A credit to the county.

Why the need for validation from the media, last night was real 'Rumble in the Jungle' stuff expect in this case Foreman won through, Limerick fought tooth and nail last night, they are true and honest to each other as a team, that's all the validation they need, they do not need some RTE mickey mouse pundit eulogising them. Be careful what you wish for, Kildare were the media darlings having won nothing of substance and now look where we are, public enemy number one with our epitaph already written, they're only waiting for the day we lose to print it.  I would actually say both teams were a credit to their county and to the country, it was a pity this game wasn't televised because it would have proved a good anti-dote to Killarney.

Anyhow from a Kildare perspective it's hard to know where we stand, we don't know our best team and our best full-back Foley was simply immense at midfield, we will need Flynn or even Lynch for next weekend and I expect to see some rotation to counter the the burden of playing our 4th game in 5 weeks. With that in mind Johnson, O'Neill, Fogarty, Leper, Chalky all put up their hands for selection last night as they did well albebit against a tiring Limerick team, when they came on.

Also a had a good close up look at young Eoin Doyle last night, he was excellent and if maintains this progress we are looking at the next Glenn Ryan.

Sligo will be a different proposition and a bit of a hoodoo team, going to be very hard but sure it's all part of the Kildare adventure.

[Onlooker]

Limerick are a gallant team and as hnoest a bunch of players as you could wish to see.  they have some really fine players, but probably just ran out of bodies last night, by not having players of the necessary standard to come on to freshen the team.  People may say that they have won nothing.  I don't agree.  They have won the respect of football followers throught the country.  That does mean a lot even though Limerick football people have to be sickenedd by being so near a famous victory again yesterday.