Ah... last night was great fun! To see a Limerick side so dominate anybody, let alone Queenstown Ramblers, was a joy to behold. And make no mistake Limerick absolutely controlled last nights game with the exception of the last fifteen minutes when they were content to sit back and soak up the pressure. The team as a whole were excellent, every one of them sweated buckets througout. I think special praise is deserved by John Whyte and Brendan Sweeney who totally bossed the middle of the field and kept Ramblers out of it, Eoin Keating who again looked top-class and two-goal hero Ciarán Foley whose two cool finishes won us the game.
A few other thoughts about the game...
The pitch was disgraceful... apparently it's gotten better in the last couple of weeks but even when players were just jogging about there were clouds of sand thrown up and when your own fans can only give an embarrassed smile and mumble something about beach football you know you've got a problem.
Stephen Yelverton is wasted at right-full. I think he's probably the best attacking midfielder in the division and to stick him back there simply beggars belief. Seems a nice guy though, had some nice banter with him at a throw in at one point.
Not surprisingly, Hill's boys are (mostly) dirty as can be. Lots of late tackles, raised elbows and in the case of Tony Tynan at least one petulant kick off the ball. I admonished him. He was stupid enough to mumble something back. A few of us threw some more abuse at him. His dad or his boyfriend or somebody up the line from us got a bit annoyed and said so. I presented my case to the old git and he looked away to where our hero Tony was being dispossesed for about the 200th time by Eoin Keating. Beautiful.
The Cobh internet brigade seemed to be... er, well really, really small to be honest. The threat of violence that they promised here vanished almost as soon as they piped up in their unbroken voices "It's sadloserkid!" (the price of fame methinks) Overall though the Cobh fans were grand, met some nice people.
Anyway, great result for us and one that we needed. The Kilkenny game on Thursday will be important but if we win that (and we should) things will be looking up again.
Ah... damn it, I had fun!
