Brendan Cummins believes Clare have the tools to seriously blunt a "huge weapon" for Limerick in Sunday's Munster SHC final at Semple Stadium.
Just three weeks on from their epic draw in Ennis, the pair collide again.
Speaking on the RTÉ GAA Podcast, Cummins dissected one of the Treaty's big tactical ploys - the use of Diarmaid Byrnes off puckouts - and outlined some key challenges Clare will face against John KIely's men.
"Limerick, as we all know, will play four on the full-back line on the puckout because they want to get the ball to Diarmuid Byrnes," said the former Tipperary goalkeeper.
"He's their best striker of the ball, so if Byrnes gets it, the ball is going deep. Seamus Flanagan, Aaron Gillane, whoever is in the full-forward line know it's coming.
"Will Clare push up and try to stop that from happening? Of course the byproduct of you doing that is you're one-for-one all over your half-back line so you're backing that you're better than Gearoid Hegarty, you're better than Morrissey in the air.
"It'll be interesting to see because I think it's a huge weapon that Limerick use.
"When they give it to any one of the other three bar Byrnes, they're running it. If they give it to Byrnes, more often than not he's getting out 30 yards from his own goal and it's going inside, bouncing in front of the full-forward line."
Knowing Nickie Quaid will routinely try to arrow the ball to supplier-in-chief Byrnes is one thing, stopping it is another.
However, Cummins sees qualities in the Banner armoury that could help nullify the opposing threat.
Pondering how he'd set up against the All-Ireland champions, he said: "I'd be inclined to let Limerick go short. I'd have my eight dropping in, or one of my midfielders dropping in, to centre-back to free up my centre-back to sit inside my own 45 or the edge of the D, and when Byrnes looks up to drop the ball he sees an extra body in there, and you make him play through the middle third.
"But you're always relying on your 10, 11 and 12 doing the work of two men somewhere in there to make up for that.
"That's the conundrum in a game of hurling. I call it now a game of work. If 10, 11 and 12 can work harder than the opposition's 10, 11 and 12, it allows you the luxury of your six sitting.
"So far in the championship for Clare, John Conlon has been able to sit. He's even been able to go up the field against Tipperary and push up because he knows everything around him... it allows him to push forward in advance.
"When that happens, that means your half-forward line are completely dominant. When your centre-back can march up the pitch like a game of chess and he can cause damage, then your half-forward line is totally on top, and that's what Shane O'Donnell is giving you, that's what Tony Kelly has given when he's out around there, that's what David Fitzgerald has done in the middle of the field as well
"He is a big bull of a man. He's an enforcer and he's made some difference to this Clare team.
"All in all, Clare have picked up a style of play that's been really, really good. I think Conlon is cute enough to sit when he can when Limerick go short. It'll be interesting to see how Limerick work around that."
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