Christ they are not champions a month yet and already theyâd sicken your shit, horrible Galway cunts.
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Gearoid Mcinerney is the hurler of the year. Only in Eire would the clear winner not make a top three list. I assume this is a clerical error a la Tulsa Maurice McCabe??
If not itâs seriously embarrassing for the gaaâŚ
As for Geoff and canât remember a forward dominating a big game like that single handedly. Callinan in last years final for me was better than Joe in this years semi and thatâs coming from someone who doesnât particularly like Tipperary. If itâs genuine McInerney isnât nominated then any gaa award carries an asterisk. Outrageous
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It is unfair but itâs hard enough for defenders to win it. 2012 is a classic example, Shefflin gets all the praise for the AI final comeback, when in reality it was the collective Kilkenny backs who decided that game. Although Gearoid should have been nominated and arguably could have won, weâll take it on the chin and move on.
John OâDwyer got something like 1-5 and John McGrath 1-3 in the 2016 final. Callanan was
ably assisted. Iâm not for a second disputing how good Callanan was that day or that he destroyed Joey Holden. The scoring workload was shared around though in what was almost basketball style scoring - 2-29 is what Tipperary posted.
This years Galway v Tipperary semi final was a very different game to the 2016 final. In a tough, hard fought game where scores were at a premium and was won with a tally of 0-22, Joe almost single handedly had to get all the scores over the closing 25 minutes.
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There was unanimous verdict on tsg panel that Mcinerney was hoty. Itâs probably only time in history I agreed with an rte consensus. For him to not even be nominated is rubbish and canât be explained away in any shape or form.
It probably is a bit of a slight for Galway as All Ireland Champions to only get one of the three nominees, but if they were only getting one, it had to be Joe. The Galway posters are very magnanimous about it all and good sports. Not a word of recrimination or questioning the excellence of Jamie Barron and Kevin Moran. Contrast that to the hysterical reaction from Tipperary last year when one of their own didnât get it and the vitriolic personalised campaign against Austin.
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If history has thought us anything then there will be a bitter, violent and lengthy feud in Galway over this cluster fuck. The Mczinerney and Canning factions will spend the winter at war culminating in Camille in Limerick being burnt to the ground. The arsonist will be described as a middle aged man with a moustache and mullet wearing a faded pair of white football boots who handpassed the petrol bomb into the building.
Itâll be another 29 years before Galway hurling recovers.
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Cluxton given a token POTY nomination 
Galway could use this as a motivation to galvanise them in 2018. The perceived slight of only getting one of the three nominees as All Ireland Champions.
Goalkeepers: S Cluxton (Dublin), D Clarke (Mayo), N Morgan (Tyrone)
Defenders: J McCaffrey, C OâSullivan, M Fitzsimons, P McMahon, J Small, J Cooper (Dublin), K Higgins, L Keegan, C Barrett, C Boyle, B Harrison (Mayo), P Hampsey, T McCann (Tyrone), P Murphy, T Morley (Kerry), C Devanney (Roscommon), C Mooney (Down), F Kelly (Monaghan).
Midfielders: J McCarthy, B Fenton (Dublin), T Parsons (Mayo), C Cavanagh (Tyrone), E Smith (Roscommon), K Feely (Kildare).
Forwards: A Moran, K McLoughlin, A OâShea, J Doherty, C OâConnor (Mayo), C Kilkenny, C OâCallaghan, P Mannion, D Rock (Dublin), P Geaney, K Donaghy, J OâDonoghue (Kerry), P Harte, N Sludden (Tyrone), C Harrison (Down), P McBrearty (Donegal), J Clarke (Armagh), D Flynn (Kildare).
Footballer of the Year Nominees: S Cluxton (Dublin), J McCarthy (Dublin), A Moran (Mayo), D Clarke (Mayo)
Young Footballer of the Year Nominees: C OâCallaghan (Dublin). S Powter (Cork), M Daly (Galway)
Itâd be a nice send off to him into retirement I guess.
Itâs not as if an officer of the Tipperary County Board made derogatory comments about Gleeson or anything. That precedent was set by well fed Ned.
Morley nominated. Ah ffs
No Sean Murphy ffs
No Sean Powter FFS sake
Agreed. Again, these things are a fucking joke. How they left out Tommy Doyle of Westmeath from the hurling nominees is beyond me. He sent every full forward who came near him home with his tae in a mug this year. Listen, youâd be demented if you took these things fucking seriously.
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Following in the footsteps of the likes of Cyril Hughes, Paddy Quirke and the Ware brothers who didnât get even get a well merited nomination.
Is it journalists who make the shortlist and then players vote from there or journalists all the way through?
Theyâll hardly need it. There is a good 20 years of bitterness left in the Keady affair to keep them going