Has Anthony forgotten he was very well remunerated for his time where as the players receive nothing? He is being a tad hypocritical here.
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Are you being serious? The Galway CB barely have a pot to piss in.
Was Anthony working for free? Talking about the morals of the Association is retarded. Any Manager who loses the dressing room is done for, it can’t work if doubt is there. He needs to slither away & keep his gob shut. Letting it get to this stage was his own doing, so excuse me if I’m not sobbing for the chap.
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I saw Cloonan play at every grade and I can assure you, he was the difference in far more games than I’d care to remember. No angel, but he was well able to take it as well as dish it out.
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He was a tramp, pal.
Elder players have backed themselves into a corner here.
If I was the new manager they’d be first guys I’d drop.
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No he wasn’t. He reacted to trampish acts on him but he rarely started it.
I marked him twice and he was only ever interested in the ball.
He took some amount of abuse though.
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I must be a fan of trampish play then Harry 
I saw him as a teenager against Brian Lohan in a club final, and Lohan meted out some fairly liberal off-the-ball belts. Cloonan took him to the cleaners. I’d have him on my team one hundred times ahead of some of the “lovely” hurlers we’ve had down the years.
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If it is Daly, I’d wonder would he have the balls to do it that way. He was very buddy-buddy with the senior lads on the Dublin panel, and slow enough to make changes with some of those players in particular.
I’d happily take Cunningham for Dublin.
Cunningham out.
Ah stop that nonsense. Cloonan scored 9 points that day, 7 from frees. I was sitting roughly opposite where they played for one the halves and Lohan wasn’t getting involved at all.
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Daly always has been a players man.
There is a core group of elder players who he ‘might’ get one more year out… Max.
But if he’s smart he’ll go for a 3 year plan and CULL.
Who would you drop, pal?
If I was going with a 3 year plan…
Collins, Smith, Tannian & Donnellan.
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Donnellan & Tannion for sure. The other 2 might be a tad soon.
I remember the Co. Final in 1996 - Murty Kililea flattened Cloonan, and then proceeded to hit him a few flakes when he wa on the deck. Cloonan laughed at him, got up and - if I’m not mistaken - stuck the 21 yard free in the back of the net.
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Cloonan gave belts and took them with little remark. Serious hurler just cursed to have no support during his main years. He never loved the media or kissed the jersey so he wouldn’t be popular in certain counties
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I wouldn’t drop any of those four. But sluggish but all well able for a battle. We were leading kilkenny at half time in an all Ireland before they hurled up a storm and beat tipp, a small bit of tweaking is needed but no way would i be starting from scratch. We’d beat every other county in croke park without much hassle.
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