Nicky English: Power to beat precision as Limerick strike out for history

You can easily see how Kilkenny can creep towards 30 points. Look at last year’s final and they got to 32 with Limerick getting to 34. That’s why I’m ignoring the traditional, it’s Kilkenny in an All-Ireland final stuff.

As previously discussed, the difference between them at 0-25 and 0-30 has been the scoring contributions of Gearóid Hegarty, Cian Lynch and Peter Casey. Hegarty on his own scored 1-5 in last year’s final. Lynch was injured and Casey was only back from a cruciate. In recent years no team has been as good as Limerick in improving in Croke Park. They learned a lot from 2019 when Kilkenny turned them over. They blitzed Tipperary in the Munster final and wandered into the All-Ireland semi-final unprepared for the physical blitz launched by Conor Browne and John Donnelly and got knocked out of their stride.

They are worthy favourites but will have to play up to their season’s best to overcome Kilkenny and their proven scoring potential, Reid, Cody even Billy Ryan if he gets a run on them. So Limerick need to be wary.

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