Limerick braced for Waterford test after Cork's no show

We better look back, before we look forward. I hope for the Cork hurlers' sakes they have really battened down the hatches over the last five days. They have not been spared, to say the least. And mainly, by their own.

A bit like Man United during the week against Liverpool, it's not the fact that they were beaten, it's how they were beaten. Before the game on Sunday, I said if nothing else they have to bring a borderline hatred.

They have to stand up as individuals first, and then as a group and say enough is enough. Tactics, puckouts, through the lines blab blah blah. Forget about all the fancy words for a second. If we do nothing else today we have to be carried off the field, hit them like they have never been hit before, and show these Limerick boys that we have had enough of their beatings. Let's stand up as men here today, and if we lose we lose, but by god let them know going home that we won't lie down anymore.

If anything it was the opposite. Nobody knows what is really going on behind the scenes, whether the management are geniuses, or clueless, whether the players are happy or sad, or whether they agree with what they are asked or not, but to me that is all irrelevant. First up, no matter what, is that manic-like aggression.

It's just not there.

That is what is upsetting the Cork public the most. They may not agree with how they are playing the game, but that is irrelevant for now. It doesn't matter what way you play it, if you don’t work as if you are going to drop, nothing works.

It's still debatable whether Limerick were even back close to their best. Nickie Quaid being able to start a short puckout, then it being worked through every line up to the full-forward line, and put over the bar, without a single