FFS sake
Only 1 free, the rest from play. 
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If itâs not a wind up then you need to seriously consider giving up commentary on hurling matters.
Watch the last 20 minutes back again, and then repeat your claim that Joe Canning wasnât involved and may not have touched the ball during this period of play, when the game was there to be won by either side.
50 min: Canning nails a free from 90 yards, hardly a tap over.
52 min: Canning helps win dirty ball which David Burke pointed.
52 min: Canning down injured and moves in to FF for a short spell to recover
57 min: Canning wins a high ball but hits a poor pass
60 min: Hits pressure free from 70 yards, not a tap over
62 min: Canning wins high ball and passes to Conor Cooney who points
63 min: Touches ball several times during frantic scramble for the ball
64 min: Wins ball, passes to Jason Flynn who hits bad wide.
69 min: Slots tap over free.
71 min: Wins high ball, turnover.
72 min: Wins puck out, Conor Cooney hits wide
74 min: Appropriately, the last touch of the 2017 final is from Joe Canning
Canning was massive in the last 20 min, under every puck out, fighting for every ball, nailing all his frees. Most importantly, freeing up space for Niall Burke and Jason Flynn who got the decisive scores. Contrast him with the other two nominees fro HOTY, Barron didnât touch the ball from the 50th to the 64th minute when he was taken off, and Kevin Moran hit two very bad wides. While youâre at it, contrast him with the contributions of the 2016 HOTY.
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The system was well and truly broken 6 years previously in 1988 when Ciaran Barr got selected ahead of Joe Cooney.
Oooft
@Bandage took gross offence in Joe enjoying his lap of honour with people that mattered to him rather than sheeping along with the rest of the lads,
TFK does encourage and promote sheep like behaviours
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His finish to the semi final to dethrone All Ireland Champions, Tipperary was the definition of clutch. No Galway player other than Joe scored after the 50th minute. Got the last 6 points, 3 from play.
Heâs the Hurler of the Year by a country mile.
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The pivot is complete and he now apparently did have an immense final.
He was on the ball in open play 7 times in the entire game so your description of the last 20 minutes must be incorrect @anon7035031.
Whereâs your source for this, pal?
Have you tried watching it?
Youâre missing the point.
Barr got that award for what he didnât do just as much as what he did - the exact same reason that Joe Canning has been the best hurler in Ireland this year.
You need to know hurling to get this.
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Joe Canning has this wrapped up lads, and rightly so.
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Christ thats as big a clamping as Iâve seen in a while
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I doubt we will see Bandage for a week after that.
âTouches ball several times during frantic scramble for the ballâ - 
Canning obviously doesnât deserve the POTY nomination but thereâs no need to go all Marty Morrisssey commentating on the camogie final on it. Great battling - is she just wonderful?
Nobody had any qualms with Canning not being nominated for MOTM in the final or not being mentioned in the POTY discussion by the 7 (seven) RTE pundits that night but some posters are now working backwards to invent scenarios whereby he was magnificent all year, especially in the final, to try to justify the strange selection.
Guys, itâd be honest and refreshing if you acknowledged that itâs been decided to incorrectly use this award as a coronation of sorts and to mark his overall career and longevity and because he seems to be a nice, homely chap. But the abandonment of Gearoid McInerney by the Galway posters to engage in this charade, although harmless, is very very very surprising.
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I donât see anything particularly noteworthy there.
Contrast that to James McCarthy, who will probably win Footballer of the Year (but shouldnât - Moran should) who was genuinely immense in the last 20 minutes of the football final.
If a list of touches of the ball (itâs very funny how youâve gone to the trouble of compiling that list) is defined as a âclampingâ, the bar for a âclampingâ has been set at an all-time low.
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Thanks for that. Youâre missing the point though. If youâd marked Joe Cooney and Ciaran Barr, youâd get this.
I didnât miss the point. I was being ironic, which appears to have flown over your head.
Itâs a clamping of the poster who claimed Canning didnât touch the ball at all in the last 20 minutes.
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âTouches ball several times during frantic scramble for the ballâ - [/quote]
Obviously your wit does not extend beyond the mundane, the above was mocking your clueless claim.
It killed him to watch it the first time. Watching it again would sent the poor fucker into a tizzy.
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