Lucey hoping for a rub of the green against Cats

POOR Limerick. Underneath all the usual managerial traumas and intermittent player disturbances, there is a pretty nifty hurling team screaming to get out and the statistics bear evidence to that.

Only Cork and Waterford have managed to put more than 14 points on the board against them in 13 games this season and the 1-20 they coughed up against the All-Ireland champions can be virtually discounted as it came in the dying throes of Padjoe Whelahan's ill-fated tenure.

At the other end, Limerick have been putting together a nice collage of numbers too 3-11 against Tipperary in the league, 17 points against Wexford, 18 in the defeat to Waterford and 1-18 in their last outing against Galway.