Lucey calls for patience

IN 2007 Limerick reach the All-Ireland final, beating the likes of Tipperary and Waterford along the way.

But after a less-than-stellar Allianz National Hurling League campaign to date, was it a false dawn or genuine turnaround? That’s the question the success-starved Limerick supporters are asking themselves this week as Limerick prepare to take on Cork in the league quarter-final at the Gaelic Grounds.

Bear with us, pleads full-back and new team captain Stephen Lucey: “We have to seek to improve. We won nothing last year; as great as it was to get to an All-Ireland final we’ve nothing won, nothing won in ten years. The day of going places and playing well is gone, out the window — what’s the point just being there?