the midfielders to win in the decade under scrutiny and overlapped with Tom Kenny’s career in the decade
03 - Derek Lyng and Tommy Walsh (both KK)
04 - Jerry (Cork) and Ken McGrath (Waterford)
05 - Jerry (Cork) and Paul Kelly (Tipp)
06 - Jerry (Cork) and Cha (KK)
07 - Brick (WD) and Cha (KK)
08 - Cha (KK) and Shane mcGrath (Tipp)
09 - Rice (KK) and McCrabbe (Dublin)
10 - Mick Fennelly (KK) and Brendan Maher (Tipp)
which years should he have got one and instead of who?
Any year instead of Jerry
ah would you stop. I’d say instead of Paul Kelly in '05, Galway bate Tipp in a quarter final
Kenny was a wing back in 2003. He should have gotten one in 2004 or 2005 ahead of Jerry in both years and ahead of both winners in 2005.
I had forgotten Paul Kelly got one in 2005, didn’t he hit 6 or 7 points from out the field in the Munster final that year. Kenny was consistently very good from 2004 to 2006.
he got 4 from play.
I’d say Jerry was ahead of him every year, jerry was some man to pop up with a big score.
The pair of them should have got it in '05. They were some engine room
Kenny got 0-04 points in '05 with 0-03 coming in the final. Jerry got 0-09 and scored in every game
You’re right. Strange how the mind plays tricks on you. And it didn’t go through the defender’s legs, it whizzed past Doc O’Connor who wafted at it like a tail end batsman facing a fast bowler. About 50 seconds into this clip of goals from 2004.
You could argue that they were similar hurlers in style and both were important cogs in their running game and that one was marginally better than the other based on preference.
But I can’t see any argument which would justify that Jerry deserved 3 All Stars and a POTY award and Kenny deserved zero accolades for their form and importance to the side in the same time span
Jerry was that bit flashier which is very important in the All Star selection criteria.
I’d have huge respect for Kenny. The donkey work very rarely gets rewarded with individual honours.
As an aside, a little anecdote about those Cork lads, we used train in a hall in Midleton during the bad winter months. We trained 2 nights a week inside doing running. About 7 or 8 of the Cork senior lads used hire it out off their own backs and do inside running. To see them in action was a sight, pure athleticism. Kenny had rockets in his tackies.
I think Ken McGrath was shoe horned into midfield in 04, so maybe then.
Probably 05 too but they rarely give both midfielders to the same county
'94 Houla and Ciaran
'03 Lyng and Walsh
'13 Colm Galvin and Colin Ryan (banjoes)
Infairness Clare played with four midfielders that year
Hi mate. I’m not.
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I greatly greatly enjoyed that mate, thanks.
With hindsight, the kk defender didn’t do a heap wrong for the last one. Cody still sour about it but it was a supreme bit of poaching.
The crowds were well down at some of those games.
Still remarkable how big dan got such a shot off in such a tiny area. The ball was practically down his jumper.
Kenny’s goal was some strike. Flynner was a magician.