All Ireland Hurling Final 2024 - The Tony Kelly Final

[FRENCH_HOLLY]

Wonder who be commentator for it, please let it not be Maloney. Marty I reckon if he makes it up from East Clare tonight.

[RunningBelowXg]

Is Davy after giving Clare the kiss of death there?

[Arthur]

That was some point. Would have been best ever all Ireland winning point id say. Best football was your man brendan reilly for meath in 96. Very underrated point

[Mullach_Ide]

@Watch_The_Break

The likes of Horgan is why Cork haven’t won the big one for nearly 20 years. It’s not about him personally nor is it about Cork generally. I just think ye produced a generation of players who had no character. He’s simply the most talented of them.

I don’t think he has changed either. He just has a different generation around him now. Look at the dying moments of the Limerick game in the round robin this year. Cork chasing an equaliser. The whole stadium on its feet. Horgan gets possession and what does he do? Throws himself to the ground trying to con the ref into giving him a free. And fair play to Sean Stack he saw right through it. Then gobshites trying to give him the glory for scoring the penalty instead of Kingston who took on both Byrnes and Hayes to win it. What’s the conversion rate for penalties these days? 80% Come on.

But it’s not just him. It was his whole generation. I will never forget Pa Cronin, captain of Cork no less, going out in an All-Ireland final and throwing himself on the ground every time the ball came near him to con his way to a medal. Just sickening shite that no other county would be proud of. Contrast that with Seamie Harnedy as that replay slipped away from Cork. Forget the goal he got to level the game. Twice as the clock wound down he caught brilliant balls over Conor Ryan’s head to give Cork the goal chances they needed to save himself. A totally committed, honest player in his first year on the team, that was sneered at within his own county because of the club he came from.

The reason ye have a serious team again is because lads like Connolly, Hayes, and Barrett are in Harnedy’s mould and not Horgan’s. It’s crazy to me that Horgan is the one ye go on about deserving the medal. Harnedy, despite not hailing from an aristocratic Cork hurling club, is the one who embodied the values that once made Cork great. Far better story and a far more worthy hero for young Cork lads to look up to.

Fucking hell, must be drink on board.

[neilld]

The issue is he is being compared to Sheflin, Canning and TJ who made their own scores, facilitated others and led attacks. To me he is most like Eoin Kelly and he ain’t prime Eoin Kelly. Great player but not in that tier. It’s actually very simple. He is actually the most like the recently retired Tipp man Callanan in that he is a beautiful hurler and unbeatable to take a score but went through career troughs.

[flattythehurdler]

@Aertel220

If they’re saying that this years minor team have IT then I’d tend to believe them

They just about cheated their way past a 14 man Galway

[Galaxy]

Say it’s Marty. Was on with Ray darcy on radio Friday. Think he was locked away in his shed writing that cringey essay he’s comes out with at the start of every all ireland final. Spontaneous it ain’t.

[endakenny]

@neilld

The issue is he is being compared to Sheflin, Canning and TJ who made their own scores, facilitated others and led attacks. To me he is most like Eoin Kelly and he ain’t prime Eoin Kelly. Great player but not in that tier. It’s actually very simple. He is actually the most like the recently retired Tipp man Callanan in that he is a beautiful hurler and unbeatable to take a score but went through career troughs.

A good comparison but I don’t think you can compare an assassin like Callanan who buried or set up goals to Hoggie who spent the first 14 years of his career tapping over handy points from 25 yards out when Cork had an overlap and handy goal for the begging.

Hoggie is revered because of that silly scoring record and his longevity.

[neilld]

Callanan is one of my favourite players and I’d have him ahead agreed. His peak in 16 was unbelievable and he was a goal getter. Horgan is an amazing player, wrists to die for but dependant on others. I was kind of saying I suppose that Callanan some way was but more capable of winning his own ball.
I’d be a massive Gillane fan, can do it any way, but if he’d wrists like Hoggie he’d be the GOAT

[gilgamboa]

@Watch_The_Break

The likes of Horgan is why Cork haven’t won the big one for nearly 20 years. It’s not about him personally nor is it about Cork generally. I just think ye produced a generation of players who had no character. He’s simply the most talented of them.

I don’t think he has changed either. He just has a different generation around him now. Look at the dying moments of the Limerick game in the round robin this year. Cork chasing an equaliser. The whole stadium on its feet. Horgan gets possession and what does he do? Throws himself to the ground trying to con the ref into giving him a free. And fair play to Sean Stack he saw right through it. Then gobshites trying to give him the glory for scoring the penalty instead of Kingston who took on both Byrnes and Hayes to win it. What’s the conversion rate for penalties these days? 80% Come

What a fucking bunch of tripe

[peddlerscross]

Its absolutely mental when you think about it that a Club as iconic as the Glen can have 3 key men starting tomorrow and find themselves in the Intermediate grade.

They’ll surely fancy a run at the All Ireland in that.

[peddlerscross]

Horgan is the best stickman of all time which is a much more important accolade in my eyes than being the best player of all time.

[myboyblue]

@peddlerscross

Its absolutely mental when you think about it that a Club as iconic as the Glen can have 3 key men starting tomorrow and find themselves in the Intermediate grade.

They’ll surely fancy a run at the All Ireland in that.

Be mortifying to win it

[YellowBib]

They’re Senior A, you don’t play provincial club if you win that.

[peddlerscross]

What a joke.

[endakenny]

@peddlerscross

Horgan is the best stickman of all time which is a much more important accolade in my eyes than being the best player of all time.

Sure if you’re going down that road then Jason Forde would be a top 10 player of all time in that category, silly comparison.

Anyhow on that silly merit award, Bubbles is the most gifted sticksman of all time and always showed it on the big days in Croke park.

[peddlerscross]

Stickman is a very important accolade and Jayo would be up there alright. Bubbles probably number 2 but I’ve never seen someone who can make the ball talk quite as well as Horgan.

I loved the way he spoke to Donal Og during the week about shaping the strike in different ways. He can literally do anything he likes with a ball but the one thing i will say is that the size of his bás is a bit of a red mark against him.

[johnnysachs]

Callanan has 40 goals in championship hurling. Majority scored when there was no round robbin. Most of them solo goals enginneered by himself. There was a time he’d get a ball out on the sideline and turn and you knew the umpire would be reaching for a green flag in a moments time. He was unplayable back in the day. None of Shefflin, Reid, Horgan or Gillane had the physical gifts he had.

[gilgamboa]

@peddlerscross

Its absolutely mental when you think about it that a Club as iconic as the Glen can have 3 key men starting tomorrow and find themselves in the Intermediate grade.

They’ll surely fancy a run at the All Ireland in that

No all Ireland run for them on senior b

A good senior b club at a push

[YellowBib]

Looking at Wikipedia at the scoring charts, Donal Burke seems to have the highest points per game ever.