Buoyant Kilkenny will exploit any mistakes but the champions didn’t become so hard to beat by being error prone
It was a fairly fat two points, though. Limerick never trailed from gun to tape. Kilkenny caught them twice for less than an accumulated two minutes and fired two points in the last minute of injury-time.
Circumstances differ for a start. Last year’s half-forward line of an in-form Gearóid Hegarty, Tom Morrissey and Kyle Hayes had a definite advantage in that regard, which isn’t as easy to replicate with Hayes back in defence, Hegarty in uncertain form, David Reidy, although experienced, starting an All-Ireland for the first time and an admittedly top-performing Morrissey.
Kilkenny have a new centrefield this time around and both Conor Fogarty and Adrian Mullen have been having fine seasons. They find themselves up against Darragh O’Donovan in the form of his career and twice HOTY Cian Lynch, who missed last year and has only incrementally got back to his best – if that was the message of his semi-final display.
Is it a complete red herring? Hmmm. Two counties, Cork and Kilkenny, have achieved it but of the other seven to fall short after completing a three-in-a-row, only one even made it out of their province the following year.Kilkenny are hurling with such purpose and – to deploy an oxymoron – controlled abandon that it’s perfectly possible to see them winning if Limerick come up short in any of a few respects.
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