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Can Limerick Control The Hype?

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Replying To clondalkindub:  "This season has been too crazy for Galway (the heavy favorites)to win it out no way, it's limerick's Year I could tell from the get go that they were going to win it out and I won't be wrong. Hype it up all you like it won't effect these limerick players no chance.

Limerick City Sunday 3 weeks time will be mental with celebration's no doubt about it."
"and i wont be wrong" haha. So you are putting the house on it? Seeing as you know the future. Limerick would be out of there backside if Nicky Quaid hadn't stopped the Limerick goal chance. Nobody knows what will happen or who will win. otherwise we all wouldn't be so passionate to talk and discuss it, let alone bother to go to games.

Miami305 (Galway) - Posts: 147 - 31/07/2018 12:02:12    2127811

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if a player cant manage the hype himself,he needs to look at his own approach.
i know a few of the wexford hurlers,and i know one thing-the would love to swap places with the limerick players this week.
its not like they are the first team ever to play in an all-ireland final,why should the hype be different to them than it was for waterford last year?or clare 2013?
enjoy every second of the next 3 weeks limerick,and i hope liam mccarthy is spending winter in the treaty city.

perfect10 (Wexford) - Posts: 3929 - 31/07/2018 15:08:11    2127894

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Replying To perfect10:  "if a player cant manage the hype himself,he needs to look at his own approach.
i know a few of the wexford hurlers,and i know one thing-the would love to swap places with the limerick players this week.
its not like they are the first team ever to play in an all-ireland final,why should the hype be different to them than it was for waterford last year?or clare 2013?
enjoy every second of the next 3 weeks limerick,and i hope liam mccarthy is spending winter in the treaty city."
Its not the players who are going on about this hype thing. I think it comes from 2013 when at semi final stage we were favourites and then Clare punked us but I dont think it was down to that. it was down to Clare momentum and lack of pressure vs our pressure and lack of Match sharpness. I wish people would stop going on about it.. Oh the Limerick fans get carried away and that causes the team to lose... BS. why cant fans get excited? were all supposed to go around saying 'we probably wont win'

blackspot91 (Limerick) - Posts: 1055 - 31/07/2018 18:50:29    2127984

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Replying To blackspot91:  "Its not the players who are going on about this hype thing. I think it comes from 2013 when at semi final stage we were favourites and then Clare punked us but I dont think it was down to that. it was down to Clare momentum and lack of pressure vs our pressure and lack of Match sharpness. I wish people would stop going on about it.. Oh the Limerick fans get carried away and that causes the team to lose... BS. why cant fans get excited? were all supposed to go around saying 'we probably wont win'"
this limerick team is a serious oufit and so is their manager and can't see anybody stopping them now

toe2hand (Galway) - Posts: 223 - 31/07/2018 21:30:16    2128028

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Replying To blackspot91:  "Its not the players who are going on about this hype thing. I think it comes from 2013 when at semi final stage we were favourites and then Clare punked us but I dont think it was down to that. it was down to Clare momentum and lack of pressure vs our pressure and lack of Match sharpness. I wish people would stop going on about it.. Oh the Limerick fans get carried away and that causes the team to lose... BS. why cant fans get excited? were all supposed to go around saying 'we probably wont win'"
completely agree,get excited,if players can't enjoy the hype then i think we need to forget about it

perfect10 (Wexford) - Posts: 3929 - 31/07/2018 22:25:55    2128052

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Is feidir Leo

Killarney.87 (Tipperary) - Posts: 2513 - 01/08/2018 05:21:57    2128101

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I think Shane Dowling and John Kiely were hinting at Limerick 95fm, you can be a disgrace at times. In 2007 after we beat Tipp after those 3 games they came out with a song it was pure cringeworthy stuff and don't get me started on the carry-on of them in 2013. That creates a hype and supporters bought into it and players were constantly stopped and couldn't get away from people wanting to talk about winning finals.

DUALSUPPORT (Limerick) - Posts: 1038 - 01/08/2018 09:46:30    2128144

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Replying To Canuck:  "
Replying To MesAmis:  "Enjoy it and embrace it...hype never lost a team an all Ireland in my opinion.

yew_tree (Mayo) - Posts: 9182 - 30/07/2018 15:59:06

Exactly.

Hype is an overused cliche when it comes to the winning and losing of games.

Usually used as a way to slag off people enjoying themselves in the run up to a final!"
Both of you are correct. The game is won or lost on the field. We were accused of hyping it up in 2008. Last was a very, very low profile by everyone. We still lost because Galway were the slightly better team."
Yeah in 2008 Waterford enjoyed the build up and the hype was nothing to do with their loss.

I think it may have been something to do with them coming up against the greatest team of all time who delivered arguably their stand out performance!

MesAmis (Dublin) - Posts: 13704 - 01/08/2018 09:52:20    2128148

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Replying To DUALSUPPORT:  "I think Shane Dowling and John Kiely were hinting at Limerick 95fm, you can be a disgrace at times. In 2007 after we beat Tipp after those 3 games they came out with a song it was pure cringeworthy stuff and don't get me started on the carry-on of them in 2013. That creates a hype and supporters bought into it and players were constantly stopped and couldn't get away from people wanting to talk about winning finals."
Did 95fm have a 5 or 6 hour build up show before throw in with Clare in 2013?

The Limerick Leader's nose seems to be out of place after Kiely and Dowling's comments if Donn O'Sullivan's opinion piece is anything to go by.

Ironically, this could be causing more hassle than hype would have. At least the players and management would have had a good idea on how to manage hype.

I thought Derek McGrath and Waterford managed the hype well last year after 2008.

Killarney.87 (Tipperary) - Posts: 2513 - 01/08/2018 21:30:04    2128371

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Replying To kingpuck71:  "Just back from Dublin and privileged to say I was present at the most dramatic weekend I can ever remember personally in the GAA.

Chatting to a couple of lets say, veteran Limerick supporters after the final whistle yesterday, their only concern was how to control the hype in the County over the coming weeks and keep it from getting to the team.

Remembering the hype leading up to the football final of '93 when my own county won their only AI and how well Eamon Coleman dealt with it then, are these couple of guys right to be wary of it getting to the players?"
Was, and is, all this hype business a load of nonsense. I think the reason Limerick did not win in previous was they were simply not good enough. We have been told Limerick teams froze in Croke Park. Where was all this freezing when they beat firm favourites Waterford before 82,000 people in 07 and the dual Munster Champions Cork before another vast crowd last Sunday.

Oldtourman (Limerick) - Posts: 4316 - 01/08/2018 23:40:40    2128387

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Replying To blackspot91:  "Its not the players who are going on about this hype thing. I think it comes from 2013 when at semi final stage we were favourites and then Clare punked us but I dont think it was down to that. it was down to Clare momentum and lack of pressure vs our pressure and lack of Match sharpness. I wish people would stop going on about it.. Oh the Limerick fans get carried away and that causes the team to lose... BS. why cant fans get excited? were all supposed to go around saying 'we probably wont win'"
Dead Right. We lost in 2013 as Munster Champions at the Semi Final stage. So what''. Waterford lost in the same circumstances in 2007 and 2010, Tipp lost in 2008,and 2012, and Cork have done so in '14,'17 and this year. Yet there is nobody these counties lost because of hype. Like Limerick in '13 they all lost because they were not good enough

Oldtourman (Limerick) - Posts: 4316 - 02/08/2018 07:57:07    2128403

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Replying To perfect10:  "if a player cant manage the hype himself,he needs to look at his own approach.
i know a few of the wexford hurlers,and i know one thing-the would love to swap places with the limerick players this week.
its not like they are the first team ever to play in an all-ireland final,why should the hype be different to them than it was for waterford last year?or clare 2013?
enjoy every second of the next 3 weeks limerick,and i hope liam mccarthy is spending winter in the treaty city."
Thanks for your good wishes- we certainly need to win it if at all possible

Oldtourman (Limerick) - Posts: 4316 - 02/08/2018 07:58:34    2128404

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I work in an area where 2 Limerick players work. Nobody bothers them about hurling and they themselves don't put in or out with people. In years gone by I'd have gone over to talk to them about it but these days realise that I'd just be one of fifty people thinking the same thing that day.

No, just let them alone to do their job in the Green & White. Good on them, good luck to them. They are great lads.

slayer (Limerick) - Posts: 6480 - 02/08/2018 11:54:54    2128446

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Replying To Redhot:  "I am going a bit of the subject here I remember the 93 final very well because the wrong man was red carded that day

Any of you people out there know what I am on about"
I do, was at it. I think Conor Counihan hit Enda Gormley off-the-ball and got away with it. Referee realised should have been a red then Tony Davis got the line for a nothing challenge that was barely a free

srb (Antrim) - Posts: 344 - 02/08/2018 12:14:03    2128450

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Replying To srb:  "I do, was at it. I think Conor Counihan hit Enda Gormley off-the-ball and got away with it. Referee realised should have been a red then Tony Davis got the line for a nothing challenge that was barely a free"
It was Niall Cahalane!

srb (Antrim) - Posts: 344 - 02/08/2018 12:15:06    2128451

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Replying To srb:  "It was Niall Cahalane!"
Yes Cahalane was the person that should have seen red

Redhot (Cork) - Posts: 697 - 02/08/2018 12:27:30    2128453

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Replying To perfect10:  "if a player cant manage the hype himself,he needs to look at his own approach.
i know a few of the wexford hurlers,and i know one thing-the would love to swap places with the limerick players this week.
its not like they are the first team ever to play in an all-ireland final,why should the hype be different to them than it was for waterford last year?or clare 2013?
enjoy every second of the next 3 weeks limerick,and i hope liam mccarthy is spending winter in the treaty city."
thanks for the that perfect 10 i will die a happy man if liam comes to limerick on sunday 2 weeks.....and if limerick win the stewards with the yellow bibs that keep the crowd bk will want to keep bk...there is going to be a stampede onto the field...the irish army won't stop the supporters it will be mayhem.

munsterchamps (Limerick) - Posts: 1095 - 02/08/2018 13:55:25    2128485

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