Moral victories no use, says Ryan

“The lesson must be, focus on the positives but make sure you learn from the experience, be a better team going forward,” so said former Limerick selector and team captain TJ Ryan yesterday, after the loss to Tipperary in Sunday’s Munster SHC first round in Thurles.

“We’ve had too many of these type of results over the last few years where we’ve failed to take out one of the big teams, even when we were in good positions to do so,” he continued.

“Go back to last year — the performance against Waterford in Munster was good, the performance against Dublin was good, the performance on Sunday was good but the one common denominator in those three games, unfortunately, was that we lost them all. At this stage you’d prefer to win even with a bad performance! It’s very important now for the sake of Limerick hurling that we progress from this.”