It was dramatic for sure but neither manager was happy with the sudden-death shoot-out in the Gaelic Grounds yesterday.

Limerick and Clare could not be separated after 100 minutes of epic hurling in Bank Holiday Monday's sensational league quarter-final, so a free-taking competition from the 65-metre line decided who would progress to the last four.

Ultimately, Colin Ryan's strike sent the Treaty forward, 7-6, but - seeing as two of the other quarter-finals have yet to be played - why couldn't there have been a replay?

"It's certainly not the way any person involved in hurling wants to see a match finish, taking 65s like that," winning boss John Kiely told TG4 afterwards. "It's not the way to finish a game but it is what it is and we can't control it. Ideally, you'd like to go out at it again but it's just not to be and that's it."

Banner co-manager Donal Moloney also felt that the teams should have been let go at it again: "Given the fact that some of the other quarter-finals were postponed, there was every opportunity to play this next weekend. But fair play to Limerick, they had us put away two or three times, we came back. We had them put away two or three times in extra time, and they came back. It was incredible hurling and some entertainment. Fair dues to both teams."

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