He’s been a very good servant for Waterford and excellent player for ballygunner. Not in the same league as TJ and probably not even as effective as Colin Fennelly but good nonetheless.
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Maybe. But thw whole circus around Ballygunner is tedious in the extreme.
They came along when not just Waterford club hurling but Munster club hurling was at its lowest ever ebb.
Limerick winning five in six and four in a row has made a lot of lads like Shannon a bit caught. The run for the ‘Munster’ umbrella is coldly amusing to watch.
It was a freak win because said scenario would only have happened about one in a thousand times. But they won it, fair enough. I did not crib at the time and I am not cribbing now. I am merely snipping the string holding the tethered balloon that is Ballygunner’s repute.
Kieran Shannon is in his little twee bollocks correct in any way. Winning three titles in a row in the worst ever era for Munster club hurling does not put Ballygunner even remotely in the same league as the Blackrock, Glen Rovers and St Finbarr’s teams of the 1970s. Any clown would know same. The core problem with the likes of Shannon? His type of analysis involves no more counting on his fingers – because he knows nothing.
He is, but I’m not sure Galway have ever produced a goalkeeper that would be a superstar at Christy Ring level so I doubt Gerald reaches such a status.
