Seamus Hickey expects Clare to feel Limerick backlash

Seamus Hickey doesn’t want to read too much into Limerick’s 21-point hammering against Cork on Sunday but admits a backlash is required against Clare this evening.

“That’s a no-brainer. We have to put up our standards. You can’t accept that as a normal standard, no question. There will have to be a response. It’s not going to be tearing down walls but we have to up what we consider to be a normal standard and what’s acceptable from our group.”

The defender agreed with manager John Kiely’s assessment that the result was unacceptable. At the same time, he stressed the context and timing of it. “John was right and you never want to put in that type of performance but it is what it is. We put out a team that we felt was capable of winning the game — John did — and it didn’t happen.