can see the hospital herbertstown ballybrown game being a close one and even though ballybrown are favourites they will have their work cut out to win as h/h are a tough team who wont give anything easy.

jacksback (Limerick) - Posts: 14 - 17/09/2010 20:43:24    777375

ballybrown to win by 15 points!!!!!!!!!!!

Will_Ferrell_09 (Limerick) - Posts: 123 - 18/09/2010 11:07:29    777504

15pts.are you serious?

hitmanhart (Limerick) - Posts: 496 - 18/09/2010 13:08:27    777575

h/h 1-12 ballybrown 13 points final score in bruff tonight

hurlinganalyst (Limerick) - Posts: 243 - 18/09/2010 19:21:40    777829

H/H what a performance. Ballybrown bottled it once again..... BallyB to win by 15 , eat your shorts Will_Ferell

qwerty1234 (Limerick) - Posts: 44 - 18/09/2010 19:35:39    777838

unreal win for H/H.no one gave us a chance.great performance.the paper and the radio were all wrong

hitmanhart (Limerick) - Posts: 496 - 18/09/2010 19:41:06    777843

Well done to H/H tonite, glad to see the old P'well influence in the management can still beat BB

updwell (Limerick) - Posts: 897 - 18/09/2010 20:45:11    777905

congrats to h/h on their fab win.however if people look back on my previous posts ye will see that i gave h/h a great chance.i just hope now that they havn,t playd their final.i fully xpect to see them give the final a rite good rap.as for b/b they are probably the best team in intrmediate but sth libs were the same for 10,12 yrs and found it nex to impossible to get back up.i hope b/b don,t stay down there as long but they have to produce it on the day it is most needed.

hectork (Limerick) - Posts: 1049 - 19/09/2010 12:29:08    778072

glenroe 11 dromin athlacca 11 , glenroe threw this away with the amount of dreadful wides and only scoring 2 points in the second half , very poor standard of hurling from both teams

hurlinganalyst (Limerick) - Posts: 243 - 19/09/2010 16:15:50    778174

Fair play to h/h. Im delighted ye won... didnt really care who won until I saw Will Ferrells 15 point prediction... As I said earlier in the year it would be the egos in the ballybrown dressing room that would be their downfall. But credit to hospital.

utilityplayer (Limerick) - Posts: 61 - 19/09/2010 19:55:49    778331

a sad day for limerick hurling. this game was the worst game of hurling i ever seen. the standard was so poor it was like watching a bad u8 game.athlacca and glenroe were terrible and if one of these teams gets promoted they will come down faster then they went up. emmets should forget about turning up to the gaelic grounds on the 3rd of october because they will be saughtered.

limerickeye (Limerick) - Posts: 38 - 19/09/2010 21:28:54    778452

delighted for h/h, i always thought they had a great chance coming in under the radar......ballybrown being such overwhelming favourites was never going to do them any favours! anyone at the game?? was it a case of ballybrown collapsing or just that h/h played very well?? i suppose the reales led the way for h/h, how did alan o connor fare out for ballybrown?

was at the glenroe/athlacca game.....very dour affair but did we ever expect anything else especially where both teams know each other so well! i fancied athlacca before the game but glenroe put it up to them.....they should have won it as well if their accuracy was anywhere near where it should have been!!

memory73 (Limerick) - Posts: 93 - 20/09/2010 09:18:11    778532

he was accurate from frees but otherwise had no influence on the game , ballybrown would have been better off taking points instead of falling down looking for penalties

hurlinganalyst (Limerick) - Posts: 243 - 20/09/2010 11:15:29    778674

I wonder if people go to the same games to be honest.

We are in danger of talking ourselves down hugely. If we keep being so negative we will achieve nothing. The HH Ballybrown game was a tough contest, both teams gave it everything. HH's full back line was rock solid all through and their half back line was similar. Ballybrown made some poor decisions early on, electing not to take easy points from frees & instead go for goal. HH on the other hand took most of their chances in the first half and their half forward line stopped Ballybrown from launching long ball attacks into the full forward line.

HT HH 1-6 Ballybrown 0-4

In the second half Ballybrown hit the ground running and the introduction of their number 17 (sorry didnt have a program don't know his name) made a huge difference. He caught 3 superb catches that you will go a long way to see repeated anywhere in the country and scored points from 2. By the time he caught his thord big catch, the HH full back line swallowed him up & won a free out. Ballbrown did well to draw level at 1-8 to 0-11, but HH pulled away again when their corner back kicked a clearance & it went to a midfieder who scored a great point. Ballybrown levelled again before the HH corner forward got 2 brilliant points to seal victory.

Both teams deserve a lot of credit for their fitness, commitment, honesty and some fine point scoring. Ya there were some bad passages of play, but on the whole I for one can't fault either team. There is so much negativity surrounding Limerick hurling right now that we are ignoring all of the positives. Some people predicted a 15 point win for Ballybrown and they're entitled to do that, but you have people then asking if Ballybrown bottled it without even seeing the game. For the record I thought the best side won the game, but I would also give huge credit to Ballybrown for their part in a fine contest. No matter who goes up from the Intermediate this year, good luck to them, if they come straight back down they will learn from the experience & build for the future.

Please stop the negativity & look at the postives in Limerick hurling. If we get it right at the top who knows we may uncover some talent to take us forward.

slayer (Limerick) - Posts: 6480 - 20/09/2010 14:03:40    778983

I agree Slayer. I was at the game, (a netral observer) and while I would say that Ballybrown never played to their potential, this was mainly due to the determination and commitment fo the H/H team, never allowing B/B to get into their stride. The match was full of commitment, with the Reales being the stand-out performers. While I accept this was no classic, it was a very entertaining hour, with the outcome in the balance right to the end.

Another point to remember, no Internediate team should be expected to make a big impact when promoted to Senior. Survival is hard enough.

MB_angle (Limerick) - Posts: 69 - 20/09/2010 15:14:13    779124

well done to hospital over the weekend, a well deserved win! they seemed hungrier than ballybrown. there hooking and blocking was superb and never let ballybrown settle on the ball. ballybrown option of going for goals backfired when hospital seemed happy to take points when possible. i thought when BB pulled level after being 6 points down at 1 stage that they would go on and win but great credit to HH for digging deep and pulling away again. well done to both teams who played out a tough and exciting game right to the last minute
any word if the county final will be put back a week?? ballylanders are playin football next weekend which rules that out and emmets are playin the weekend after which also rules that out...this makes the weekend of the 3rd of oct the earliest weekend but that is the weekend fixed for the final??? wil the replay be played mid-week under lights??
cant understand why both games couldnt have been played on sat as part of a double header and that way extra time could have been played if nessesary or are the county board afraid they would lose out on extra money??

brightspark (Limerick) - Posts: 25 - 20/09/2010 16:37:02    779236

thanks slayer, good match report......nice to hear that the game was competitive!! wasnt that surprised by the result though.....at intermediate level it is all down to the day itself.....anyone can beat anyone!! running up cricket scores in the earlier rounds may not have helped ballybrown.....h/h were invovled in a few very close matches in the group stages and this may have stood to them here!!

i reckon whoever goes up has a decent chance of staying up.....teams like garryspillane, bruree, claughaun are no better than any of the teams remaining in the intermediate championship........croom, ballingarry and ahane are not that far ahead either!!!

memory73 (Limerick) - Posts: 93 - 20/09/2010 16:42:42    779243

it was a pity both semis weren,t played together but we shudn,t be surprisd by that.apart frm senior semis don,t rem many double headers in any of the c/ships.the co bord love bleeding people for every last penny.lookn forward to hearing when replay goes ahead cos i can,t imagine emmets will want it playd before senior final,be intersting see how our top table deal with this.

hectork (Limerick) - Posts: 1049 - 20/09/2010 21:01:10    779677

great to see ballybrown gone out of both the junior and intermediate hurling championship.they set their sights on munster club .delighted they got what they deserved.come on hospital/herbertstown

CAPTAINMAC (Limerick) - Posts: 87 - 21/09/2010 17:15:49    780464

captain ur a very bitter man!!!!it jus happened on the day that b/b didn,t perform.if u have playd urself u will know bout things like that.9 times out of 10 b/b wud beat all intrmediate clubs but it just didn,t happen for them on the day.the same happnd na piar in senior and how many times has it happnd to othr clubs in the last few yrs,so i think u are very harsh on b/b.

hectork (Limerick) - Posts: 1049 - 21/09/2010 18:02:39    780541