Comparing the teams is tricky, and the most pertinent fact is Limerick aren’t finished yet
Kilkenny suffered as a host of others had done before them. They led by six points 10 minutes before half-time and lost by nine, precisely as Galway had done in the semi-final. Tipperary led by 10 at half-time in the 2021 Munster final, and lost by five. Cork were just a point down after 13 minutes of the 2021 All-Ireland final and trailed by 13 points at the break.
That has been a pattern in their performances this year: they have allowed teams into the game. The only championship match in which they took command early on was against Waterford, but they had surrendered that control by the final quarter. They trailed at half-time against Kilkenny, Galway, Clare and Tipperary, and were only level at the break against Cork.
When Limerick blew Cork away in the first half of the 2021 All-Ireland final, making a direct comparison with Kilkenny in 2008 had a superficial validity at least. Limerick racked up 3-17 in that first half, at a cost of just five wides – which was an impressively small number of misses for a team with so few inhibitions about shooting on sight.
How would you make a comparison stand up? The current Limerick team are the best passers of the ball hurling has ever seen, but that wasn’t even a consideration for the Kilkenny four-in-a-row team. They built their empire on dominating contested ball in every sector of the pitch. That was the game.
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