Correct
John was brought in by Tommy Lyons in 2002 and started most games that year. He was bang average but a decent long range freetaker. He was on the panel for a couple of years but didn’t feature much after 2002
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I think thats a popular but incorrect appraisal of Whelan. He was our best player by a mile in the noughties. Unfortunately we depended on him way too much. Oppositions figured out that if you stopped Whelan you had Dublin in trouble. As a result he was double teamed a lot of the time. Bottom line our full back line and our full forward lines were not good enough, and this rather than Whelan, was why we lost the big games in this period
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Need you ask? Of course it was them.
Biggest change to the sport is the back door and now the utterly ridiculous round robin. It gives the bigger counties a chance now to really become close to professional outfits. It’s sad really. I would be fairly sure in twenty or so years Dublin will dominate both codes. Dublin probably has the capacity to have a premier league soccer team. The money they’ll be able to invest now they can guarantee sponsors four and five championship games a year gives them huge advantages. It’s sad for the gaa country wide.
The very one.
Tipp were going grand there until Noel Lane took out the full back with a filthy blow to the head. Galway were always capable of that kind of stroke.
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South Galway mate, pull first and last.
There was ferocious seethe between Killimorday and Turlough back in those days, most of those lads would have played together at school and then spent their adult careers slashing the heads of each other.
I marked him in my first senior outing in 96, he would have been near 35 at that stage I’d say.
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In fairness the full back was a weak enough link on that Tipperary team. A cast off from Limerick. They wouldn’t be discarding their really good ones like Richie McCarthy that readily.
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Strange comment about a lad getting a hurley pulled across his head
Shut up you fool
Don’t recall him being a cast off either, he hurled minor for Limerick and 2 years u-21 for Tipp, his uncle played for Tipperary in the 60’s also.
He was hopeless, not grit to him at all. Galway & Lane walked all over him.
What club was he?
Tough day at the office. You’ve seen the back of Brendan Lynskey for the afternoon and then out trots Noel Lane.
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Think he was Eire Og Nenagh. Soft townies.
John McNally the footballer was Ballinteer St Johns.
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Twas just one of those days really, Donovon useless at FB, Sheedy gave the whole day batting it back out to Galway players at CB, Colm Bonnar absent, Hayes just floating about quietly, Leahy in & out of it and poor Pat Fox had one of his worst days.
It’s actually amazing Galway didn’t win by more tbh.
He captained them to their only ever county final win.
It’s very strange that you’ve decided to have a few cuts off him for some reason
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