'Results will keep lads on the bus': Limerick football look to stop high turnover rate

'A big thing for us is that we have lost 15, 16 players each year over the last three years. There's been a massive turnover of players. The biggest thing over the next three or four years is to keep as much of this panel together as we can'

LEE-DING MAN: Limerick manager Jimmy Lee.

A hurry on nobody. Forty minutes have passed since the final whistle. The Gaelic Grounds field is a framed picture of tranquil cheer. Players mingle in their own local pods. 

Danny Neville chats to six or seven Ballysteen mates, Cillian Fahy and an elderly gentleman are locked in conversation. Jimmy Lee drifts from group to group. Of no interest to the manager is ushering lads back to the dressing-room.