That’s a serious bitta business.
Is there not a bit of a bang of “rebound” off this?
As in, Donoghue regrets not going back for the Galway job last year when he could have walked into it?
I wonder where Tessio will end up now. I thought this one was his.
Donoghue is a safe enough appointment but I don’t think he’ll be able to find big improvements in this current crop from the capital.
Offaly football looks like a fairly obvious fit.
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Has Duignan made any appointments yet?
Seems a bit of a circus there with idle speculation about Sheedy/Tomas O’Se etc.
Tessio could do both the hurling and football like Frankie McGrath in Loughmore.
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Or Offaly hurling!
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Liam Kearns was ratified there I thought.
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Looks to be a serious indictment of the Galway Board that they didn’t get him back when the players and seemingly everyone else wanted him back, and he apparently open to management too?
I don’t think he had Galway playing the best hurling they played with that panel -plonking Glynn up full forward was hardly the most sophisticated move - but he got them over the line anyway.
Liam Kearns would be a fine appointment.
He was very good with Tipp and at club level his days with Aherlow will never be forgotten. The day they brought Dr. Crokes to the brink in Cashel in 2010 was one of the greatest Club Football games of all time. The Gooch had to put on a pair of oven gloves and come out to midfield to pull it out of the fire. Aherlow had about 17 togged out for it and had to amalgamate 2 years later telling you how small a club they were at the time.
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I’d assume based on that being played in the fall of the year that they only had 1 team in the club and weren’t holding onto some subs for the second team? 17 players is extremely tight.
Confirmed 10/11 days ago. TFK informed simultaneously.
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They wouldn’t have had a second team by then. I must root out the programme from that game to check. They’d a load of retirees after that game but gained a few 17 year olds for 2011 which kept them alive for a year or two but then they amalgamated for the 2013 season and beyond.
This is the Aherlow team consisting of Lukey and the Bear and all the others made national heroes in the Eddie Moroney commentary. Travelling to Cashel to face these warriors was certainly intimidating.
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He’ll do fuck all.
Sake 
Scorers for Dr Crokes: L Quinn 1-2; J Buckley 0-3; K O’Leary 0-3; A Kenneally 1-0; D Casey (free), C Cooper (free), B Looney, 0-1 each.
Scorers for Aherlow: B Grogan 0-4 (0-1 free); S Moloney 0-3; B O’Brien, T Hanley, 0-1 each.
DR. CROKES: C Cronin; D O’Leary, M Moloney, J Payne; S Myers, L Quinn, S Doolan; J Buckley, B McMahon; A Kenneally, E Brosnan, B Looney (c); C Cooper, D Casey, C Brady.
Subs: K O’Leary (Brady 44); A O’Donovan (Looney 53); S O’Neill (Kenneally 60+1); B Looney (McMahon 76); N O’Connell (Brosnan 78).
AHERLOW: B Moroney; M O’Brien, M Hanley, Ciarán McDonald; Chris McDonald, C Dillon, S Mullins; J Hennessey, S Moloney; B O’Brien, S Grogan, L Coskeran; T Hanley, B Grogan, D Peters.
Subs: C O’Shea (T Hanley 44); T Fahey (B O’Brien 57); B O’Brien (Coskeran 69); T Hanley (M O’Brien 75).
Referee: R Hickey (Eire Óg, Ennis)
It was after extra time.
Aherlow lead 0-09 to 1-03 with about 5 minutes to go in normal time. The two subs who came off went back on again which will show the lack of depth they had.
Ciaran McDonald done a great job on Gooch but then he went out the field and was sensational.
Did they all go on hols the week after Co Final?
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The star on that team was a Loughrea man.
The start of Kearns spell in Aherlow wasn’t made easy by his predecessor, ’ The Maor’, an unbelievables type character.
He was unhappy at his removal and was making a general nuisance of himself.
Kearns told the club to leave it to him to sort out.
The Maor was having a few pints one evening and jumped into the car. On his way out the road, Kearns had a specially organised checkpoint for him.
They bagged him and left him on his way. The Maor confided the matter in a few neighbours, one of which was in on the act. He told him he should head into Kearns in Limerick and he may be able to help him.
He duly did and Kearns said that he could probably get it sorted but that if he was to, The Maor had to keep his nose out of the teams business, keep his trap shut and stay away from training.
There wasn’t a peep out of the Maor after that.
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They must have been about 37/38 by the time they tested Dr. Crokes in 2011 so. Effin Eddie was 1994 was it?