Limerick captain says a lot of lads hurting

Limerick captain David Breen didn’t sugarcoat his team’s disappointment after Saturday night’s 14-pointhammering by Clare in the opening round of the Allianz Hurling League.

“There are a lot of lads hurting. Limerick is a proud county and there are lads that are going to be sickened by that and will want to address it,” he admitted. “That won’t do. We have four games left and have two weeks off. We need to take stock of what happened, analyse the match and there will be lads gunning to redeemthemselves in the next game.”

The giant centre-forward, who deemed the result ‘a reality check’, continued: “We were trying lads out in new positions and giving some of the younger lads their debuts We started well but seemed to lose our shape. We were just second to the breaks and that killed us. They (Clare) were well versed, knew what they were doing game-plan wise and were deadlyaccurate. They didn’t miss much — you can see they’ve been working on that on the training ground. That’s something we need to improve on a lot but we gave away too many frees and they’re points straight away.”