Great Hurling Half Backlines

Ger Loughnane was gas all the same. He would routinely switch a forward who would lose two balls in a row or take off a substitute who he brought on in the forwards less than ten minutes after bringing him on like Taeffe in 95, Whelan in the 97 Munster final or Scanlon in the 98 Munster final and was always chopping and changing in the forwards.

Yet when it came to the backs you could count on one hand the amount of tactical switches or times he moved a back off his man as he felt he was struggling. Aside from injury or suspension I can’t recall him subbing off a back because he was under pressure aside from Liam Doyle’s last game in 2000 when his legs were gone and Brian O’Meara burned him. Just shows you how mentally strong a unit they were, even if they struggled for a short period the belief was there that they would figure it out and right it.

There is a lad who played centre back on minors last year and is the closest ive seen to Curran. He was centre back on the midleton cbs winning harty team while only in TY.

It was a great line in reality too. The backs never let us down. It was the forwards where we always came up short

I know they won fuck all but the Waterford half back line of Ken McGrath and Tony Browne plus AN other was some Unit as well. Two all time greats.

Hard to look past that KK half back line though as a total unit.
With Cork a strong second

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Ciaran Joyce is the lads name.

I know that.

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Anything to Christopher & the boxing family

None.

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Don’t think so. He is from the Castlemartyr club.

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He is a club mate of @Turenne

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Great thread and thanks to @Big_Dan_Campbell for setting it up. But, hands down and many levels above the rest is the KK half back line.

I’ve seen him a couple of times. Very impressed. When he fills out he will be very good.

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Great composure, takes right option every time.

Did the backs not implode a little in the 1994 all Ireland final?

He is one of a number of very good young cork players. They’ll be winning all Ireland’s again very soon if they have the right senior management in place.

Yeah exactly. Used the ball well. Nice hurler as well. Good in the air even though he was giving away inches to his opponents. It’ll be interesting to see how he develops.

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They all did sure, it was more of an in general comment, we were usually able to hold teams well enough, but couldn’t get the scores

They have loads of nice hurlers coming but I think there is an underlying softness to some of them.

Also most of their good players coming are forward orientated. 3 & 6 are massive problems to solve yet.

He is Kiltha og. What combo is that?

Just Imogeela parish I think.

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