St Mary’s firepower too much for Bruree
In the possession stakes the Limerick champions were well able to match up with the men from the southern reaches of the mighty Kingdom; in former Limerick senior hurling captain James Vincent O’Brien they had a ball winner par excellence; in the likes of wing-backs Kieran O’Rourke and Vincent Stanton and wing-forwards Tommy O’Brien and James C O’Brien, Bruree they had ball carriers of pace and power. Unfortunately for them, however, when it came to most crucial skill of all — the ability to put the ball between the posts — they had no-one.
Well, maybe one in Gerard O’Brien, who managed two points from play, but that was about it. Some of their shooting was outrageously bad — shots from inside the 20m line and dead centre that went wide, so wide in one case that it didn’t even reach the end-line. A pity, because had they been able to convert their possession into scores, as admitted by star St. Mary’s midfielder Bryan Sheehan, it might have been something of a contest.
