I seem to remember there was one match in the qualifiers one year when he only named the Galway team in the huddle in the minute or so before throw in.
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The aul lad was seething. He said Loughnane set Galway hurling back about ten years 
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That was 2007 v Clare in Ennis. It was a woeful game of hurling
Did the team that day change from the parade to the match?
That was the game where the sidelines were brought in too, wasn’t it?
I don’t think they did parades for qualifiers but could be wrong.
Ah possibly. My memory of it is hazy at best
Ah he’s not here to defend himself.
It was in his Clare days that he did that.
A game for the ages.
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Is there any reason these games have no clock or scoreboard? It’s fair annoying
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Just watching this now and a few observations. Fingers had some swagger, Liam Doyle wearing a helmet doesn’t look right, Mick Ryan still rocking a mullet in 97 and Ciaran Mullooly (sp?) as the sideline reporter. The pitch looks in awful condition too. I was at this game and I remember the pitch being poor and it probably played a part in Leahy fluffing the shot. It was also a roasting hot day. Aidan Butler was an excellent club hurler, a pity he never did it at county. @Fat_Pox might correct me but Butler has a huge farm and this impacted him making the commitment. I could be wrong though.
Declan Ryan was a great yoke to throw off a hand pass too.
Yeah they’d have a massive farm. His old man would’ve been instrumental in resurrecting C/R in the 80s with regards taking teams. Married to one of the Grogan girls.
He was an excellent club hurler but his feet were a bit slow for inter county. Hard but fair with an excellent strike of the ball.
2 hours getting home from that game and I only out the road. Flash floods everywhere.
In fairness watching back the late Leahy chance it was far from a gimmey. Came at him quick and his feet weren’t right to make any kind of a worthwhile connection, no blame on him as it happened in a flash but he it was w low enough percentage chance.
Hindsight is 20/20 but if he controlled it and took it in his hand he would have drawn a 21 at the very worst.
That was a savage day. Wexford had beaten Armagh earlier and a bunch of us spent the Kerry Galway game drinking in the back of the Hogan Stand. One of the lads lived in Cabra and the floods lifted his car and moved it 200m down the road.
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'09 KK - Tipp final starting now on TG4
Revenge for Seamus getting Hogan in the league final that year.
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It was just a showlder, don’t mind trying make a masterplan out of it. Any corner back would have taken the opportunity there.
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