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[caulifloweredneanderthal]

Delighted for Cluxton and Seamie. Two all time greats.

[Fagan_ODowd]

@caulifloweredneanderthal

Delighted for Cluxton and Seamie. Two all time greats.

In fairness to Seamie, he really came into his own when they made hurling a non contact sport.

[Julio_Geordio]

I told ye Clucko was getting this months ago.

[caulifloweredneanderthal]

Yeah, he was fairly meek when his shoulder broke Brian Hogan’s collar bone in the 09 league final.

[ChairmanDan]

Redemption for Seamie.

@Fagan_ODowd

Hurler of the Year?? It doesn’t matter a fuck. There was fellas embarrassing themselves about Austin Gleeson and Seamie Callinan 18 months ago and neither of the two of them can hit the ball out of their way now.

@Mullach_Ide

Poor Seamie never got over that snub.

@Fagan_ODowd

And the guilt over it has been like an albatross around Ozzie’s neck since.

[Fagan_ODowd]

@ChairmanDan

Redemption for Seamie.

@Fagan_ODowd

Hurler of the Year?? It doesn’t matter a fuck. There was fellas embarrassing themselves about Austin Gleeson and Seamie Callinan 18 months ago and neither of the two of them can hit the ball out of their way now.

@Mullach_Ide

Poor Seamie never got over that snub.

@Fagan_ODowd

And the guilt over it has been like an albatross around Ozzie’s neck since.

He looked thrilled there on the news.

[glasagusban]

A dirty sneaky belt of a shoulder into the chest. Tippical.

[Bandage]

“I suppose” x2 in his brief interview.

[ChairmanDan]

Ger Loughnane is very surprised that a Tipperary defensive unit who shipped 2-26 in losing a provincial final by 12 points and another 3-20 in an All Ireland semi final ended up with 5 of the 7 defensive slots.

Matthew O’Hanlon is a glaring omission. By some distance the best centre back over the championship season.

[Bandage]

I thought Liam Ryan was the glaring omission.

[carryharry]

@ChairmanDan

Matthew O’Hanlon is a glaring omission.

Hard to argue with that, he was better than P Walsh.

[caulifloweredneanderthal]

@carryharry

Hard to argue with that, he was better than P Walsh.

Fair call

[ChairmanDan]

@carryharry

Hard to argue with that, he was better than P Walsh.

Liam Ryan had to have been very close. Padraig Walsh is a bit of a hurling media darling. I’d have Conor McDonald instead of Colin Fennelly as well. Two is very light for Wexford. I thought they had a good shout for 4 or 5.

I’d have given Rowland the goalkeeper. They could have given goalkeeper to 4 or 5 different fellows and there wouldn’t have been too many quibbles. No stand out goalkeeper. Spread it around a bit and give Laois only a second hurling All Star. Rowland would have deserved it on merit anyway even without a sympathy vote. I thought Hogan had a poor outing against Wexford.

[eoghanruadha]

Agreed, Eoin Murphy would feel extremely aggrieved.

Overall the 4 Tipp backs is surely a major oversight given the high scores they conceded along the way .
Would think O ’ Hanlon at least worth a half back slot for overall consistency.

[eoghanruadha]

O Hanlon probably the most consistent of the lot but when making way for him you’d have to consider that P Walsh didn’t down tools in a provincial final.

[caulifloweredneanderthal]

He waited til the All Ireland final to down tools along with his teammates

[Bandage]

Roy’s overwrought tweets about Dublin show no sign of abating.

Roy Curtis (RoyCurtis68)

[caulifloweredneanderthal]

Roy would be a lovely addition to this forum

There’s a market here for whimsical nonsense

[eoghanruadha]

Final unfortunately was all about a reffing decision, we’ve been through that already.

I genuinely think 4 Tipp backs is not reflective of the years performance, if it helps at all quelling any Tipp/KK bias I might be perceived to have - I’d have no issue with Bubbles or Mcgrath in there ahead of Fennely. In particular when they accommodated Fennely at wing forward.

[caulifloweredneanderthal]

I’d have Forde ahead of those two tbh