This message has been edited - 06-jun-2012 @ 18:05

Originally posted by Fintan Franks:
Lads, has anyone the definitive list of songs the Limerick lads sing from the terraces at all?Stand up and fight.
Sean South
Limerick your a ladyAny others lads?Arte there any posters from Limerick here at all?

Originally posted by notrealdan:
I can see John Allen putting a lid on this young lad, 1 championship game played for Limerick and already he's having a go at supporters who are following Limerick since before he was born.

Originally posted by Clon Boyo:
Surprised at this and couldnt see JBM sanctioning these comments if it was Lehane or Sweetnam. We have critical supporters in Cork too but I dont think any player would criticise the rebel army. I knew some of Dave Keanes players from my time in Limerick and they drank but they were sound and you never heard them in the papers. There is a fine line between confidence and arrogance and there is a bit of arrogance creeping into the young Limerick players. The Declan Hannon comments about Tipperary came back to haunt him and the centre back roasted him. There will not be a peep from Lehane and Sweetnam unless fully authorised by JBM.

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Originally posted by jaykeane:
Who was the self deluded moron last year pontificating that Kevin Downes was wasting his time playing in the full forward position? I’m sure if he was reading some of the stuff last year it would have done wonders for his confidence. I think he was the same fella castigating Declan Hannon over speaking his mind in the build up to the Tipp match?

Originally posted by glasandbán:
SLR I think he was giving out about the phenomenon rather than any personal criticism, and of course he's dead right.

Originally posted by South Limerick Referee:
I said he was more suited to wing or corner and I retain that belief. In fact outside of Dowling who will be needed on the half forward line, of the present lot of Limerick players, I believe that Nicky Quaid is the one player who can be the Number 14 in the traditional sense that Limerick crave. I make no apologies for any comment I made on the non appropriate comments made by Declan Hannon. My views on the matter are well known. The comments should not have been made. End of story.

Originally posted by Armin Tamzarian*:
Nicky Quaid now for full forward. Will u get real SLR and cut out the nonsense. No wonder Dowling is giving out about you. We have the full forward we always craved and if they may have left him on against tipp he'd have smashed the goal to win it for us.

Originally posted by South Limerick Referee:
Nicky Quaid is a player I have often mentioned for the position in the past. He could make an excellent provider, Downes could be the finisher.

Originally posted by South Limerick Referee:
Nicky Quaid is a player I have often mentioned for the position in the past. He could make an excellent provider, Downes could be the finisher.

Originally posted by staycalm:
You really do show yourself up at times with your junior b mentality. Taking one of the most solid keepers Limerick have had in years and putting him up full forward as a provider. That sort of lob a ball in top of the big man mentality went out years ago

Originally posted by South Limerick Referee:
John Allen has been critical of sites for a number of years now. But the sites will always be there from now on. If as these people say, they don't read them, then it wont bother them.

Originally posted by ian o b:
Goalies can make great forwards. If memory serves correctly the following all had stints in goal early in their playing careers: Christy Ring, Eoin Kelly(Tipp), Paul Flynn and DJ Carey.

Originally posted by Fintan Franks:
John Troy had a head on him like a goat but played mostly in goal underage before becoming a top top player out the field.John Troy, one of the great forwards of the 90s and a gentleman to boot im told.

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Originally posted by laochra gael:

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The Irish Times - Wednesday, June 6, 2012
Dowling left 'disappointed' by fansTEENAGE SENSATION Shane Dowling has expressed disappointment with Limerick supporters for their lack of faith in the county hurlers.It was one of those rare moments when a burgeoning sportsman ignores the option to provide clichéd responses, instead calling it as he sees it.“Personally, this is my first year in the senior panel and I was very disappointed with the Limerick public,” said Dowling yesterday at the launch of the Bord Gáis Energy under-21 hurling championship.“Some of the stuff that you’re being told or hearing or seeing, it didn’t make any difference to us as everyone could see from the performance , but it was just disappointing to see and to hear.”Dowling is one of hurling’s brightest young talents. Despite only being 19 years old, he’s already an irreplaceable member of John Allen’s team, having also guided Na Piarsaigh to county and provincial club championship titles in 2011.Remarkably mature for his age, Dowling interestingly touched upon the wide-ranging reach of multimedia in the modern era and the pressure the likes of Twitter and online forums can heap upon sports people in Ireland.“It doesn’t mean anything to the players. Because if it did we’d have been beaten by 30 points in Thurles. It would have been a waste of time turning up.“As someone said to me, it must have been an awful feeling going up knowing you were going to get a trimming. Why do you have to listen to this? We knew we weren’t going to get a trimming.“I’d just ask the Limerick public to leave us do what we can because at the end of the day, some of us are full-time workers, some of us have families with kids and don’t get paid anything for it. We try our best and I hope that they realise that.“We were eight points up against Clare and regardless of whatever happened it shows that we’re there or thereabouts.“It showed against Tipperary, we’re there or thereabouts. Now, there or thereabouts isn’t good enough. We have to get over that.“It’s nice to hear positivity coming from your own people. Maybe it’s just my inexperience coming in the first year but even these online forums, thank God I don’t go near them but some of the stuff that I do hear is ridiculous. People behind keyboards writing stuff about you, it’s ridiculous.“You just ask for patience. It’s a learning curve and maybe in another two or three years if nothing happens then maybe it’s time to start talking.”Dowling landed 0-8, four from play, in his Munster championship debut at Semple Stadium a fortnight ago and despite many onlookers concluding Limerick’s fitness down the straight proved their undoing – they led the game by seven points with 20 minutes left on the clock – he saw it differently.“Absolutely not. It’s just all rumours. It’s just people looking for excuses. You look at Séamus Callanan, the Bonnar Maher, Shane McGrath, these are All Star guys coming on, All-Ireland winners, with 10 minutes to go.“Any team might get a small bit lethargic in the last 10 minutes and then when you have these guys running at you it’s just a bit hard. Maybe if we were in Division 1A the experience would tell a bit.“If we got a goal during our spell , regardless who came on, I think we’d have got there. But that’s the way it was and that’s the way it ended.”Dowling is adamant Limerick hurling is making progress and feels this has been evident since they won the Division Two title last year.“In 2011 Donal O’Grady came down and did a great job, John Allen is doing a great job; we’re slowly getting there. Just hopefully people will buy into that. I think people have now realised that we aren’t at it – but we’re not too far off it. Hopefully we’ll get there but we need every bit of support that we can get.“Maybe, I’ve been lucky in the fact that I won the Harty Cup with the school and then last year with the under-21s , this year we’ve been having a good run with the club.“I’ve lost a lot of things as well, two All-Ireland finals with the school and many other things. It’s something that, I suppose, there’s a few of us going into the senior set-up and unless we win, unless we win a Munster or an All-Ireland the year’s going to be a failure.“We haven’t reached a Munster final but the All-Ireland is still there and we’ll make a go at it and see where it takes us.”

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Originally posted by glasandbán:
Who was your source on this?

Originally posted by Fintan Franks:
John Troy had a head on him like a goat but played mostly in goal underage before becoming a top top player out the field.John Troy, one of the great forwards of the 90s and a gentleman to boot im told.

Originally posted by ProjX:

Tipp scored 1-10 in the last 10 minutes and it had nothing to do with lack of fitness on the Limerick side? Shur we are just happy to get the day out and be on the same pitch as real hurlers from Tipp!!Donal O Grady requested Limerick to be re-relegated to division 1b and this means he did a great job?John Allen is currently doing a great job by blowing an 8 point lead in the last 10 mins of the div1b final and consigning the team to another year in the second division of hurling?Go on the 'Happy Losers'!Shane is a talented hurler, let's hope he doesn't get the moral victory complex.