Hurling League 2014

[Midshipman_Asha]

[QUOTE=“cluaindiuic, post: 924790, member: 258”]@caoimhaoin What timeframe are you saying putting on this top 10?
You already mentioned 2 years in this post. If that is your timeframe and you are leaving out Shefflin you are forgetting something fairly important…[/QUOTE]
I think he means last year and this year so 2012 doesn’t count

[BeTimberin]

1 McGrath
2 Kelly
3 Horgan
4 Sutcliffe
5 Shefflin
6 Canning
7 Harnedy
8 Fennelly
9 Callinan
10 N McGrath

Shefflin is still a match winner. As is Canning. McGrath, Fennelly, Callinan and Sutcliffe are on top form. Noel McGrath is still quality as evidenced last Sunday. Ive omitted Keaney above but he deserves honourable mention as does Hogan. Lehane is about 13th on that ladder with Collins and O’Donnell there aswell. O’Donnell is still underrated

[Kid_Chocolate]

Bubbles O’Dywer…great time for him…might shade it over Keaney…but hasn’t done it yet

[glasagusban]

I have great time for Callinan and over the last few years have stated he would come good when he was being slated by tipp fans and he is beginning to. However I don’t think he has proved he is in that top 10 yet, he probably will this summer. Joe canning is still the best player and forward in the country. Shefflin is still there too. Conor Cooney and David Burke could be in that company soon. Kevin Downes is thereabouts given his performances this year so far. Can’t believe Podge Collins is being overlooked to some degree, he was Clare’s best forward last year.

[Bisto]

@Bandage

That’s why Kevin will never be a good coach. A complete inability to look in the mirror and question himself or take on board the merits of alternative viewpoints. His childish “I’m right, I win” obsessive behaviour bordering on paranoia will ultimately alienate everybody and foster complete resentment. He’s what’s known as unconsciously incompetent. Feel free to revert back to me for more psychoanalysis on other posters, as required.

do you think i’d be a good coach pal?..

[Julio_Geordio]

Isn’t Callinan always flying at this time of the year though?

[glasagusban]

@Bandage

That’s why Kevin will never be a good coach. A complete inability to look in the mirror and question himself or take on board the merits of alternative viewpoints. His childish “I’m right, I win” obsessive behaviour bordering on paranoia will ultimately alienate everybody and foster complete resentment. He’s what’s known as unconsciously incompetent. Feel free to revert back to me for more psychoanalysis on other posters, as required.

He’d have a great first season though.

[Bisto]

@glasagusban

He’d have a great first season though.

the ’ wow, this guys attitude is infectious and he’s passionate !’ to ‘fuckin hell, this cunt is nuts!’…

[Bandage]

@scumpot

do you think i’d be a good coach pal?..

You’re too aggressive and see everything as a perceived sleight on you so, unfortunately, “no” is the answer. It’d be different if you had some intelligence to balance this out - see All Ireland winner Davy Fitzgerald for example.

[Bisto]

@Bandage

You’re too aggressive and see everything as a perceived sleight on you so, unfortunately, “no” is the answer. It’d be different if you had some intelligence to balance this out - see All Ireland winner Davy Fitzgerald for example.

outrageous…you need to break a few eggs to make an omelette pal…my ability to spot players strengths and weaknesses is second to none on this forum…and every great leader has a healthy bit of paranoia

[myboyblue]

@scumpot

outrageous…you need to break a few eggs to make an omelette pal…my ability to spot players strengths and weaknesses is second to none on this forum…and every great leader has a healthy bit of paranoia

I get the impression you’d be a Glenn Hoddle type manager, you’d embarrass players with your own greater ability. I see a lot of myself in you to be honest. Its why I’ll never be a Cheddar Plunkett type figure. He knows it. I know it. And we go our separate ways.

[caoimhaoin]

[QUOTE=“cluaindiuic, post: 924790, member: 258”]@caoimhaoin What timeframe are you saying putting on this top 10?
You already mentioned 2 years in this post. If that is your timeframe and you are leaving out Shefflin you are forgetting something fairly important…[/QUOTE]

[QUOTE=“cluaindiuic, post: 924790, member: 258”]@caoimhaoin What timeframe are you saying putting on this top 10?
You already mentioned 2 years in this post. If that is your timeframe and you are leaving out Shefflin you are forgetting something fairly important…[/QUOTE]
i probably am, just threw it together quickly

[caoimhaoin]

[QUOTE=“BeTimberin, post: 924803, member: 675”]1 McGrath
2 Kelly
3 Horgan
4 Sutcliffe
5 Shefflin
6 Canning
7 Harnedy
8 Fennelly
9 Callinan
10 N McGrath

Shefflin is still a match winner. As is Canning. McGrath, Fennelly, Callinan and Sutcliffe are on top form. Noel McGrath is still quality as evidenced last Sunday. Ive omitted Keaney above but he deserves honourable mention as does Hogan. Lehane is about 13th on that ladder with Collins and O’Donnell there aswell. O’Donnell is still underrated[/QUOTE]
That’s a good list and one hard to argue with too. It’s not that dissimilar an we can both make cases for all the players we mentioned. So you “FFS” was a bit over the top. McGrath was shit last year, hence that exclusion. I actually didn’t think of Fenneally so no real problem with him. On recent form I’d have a few ahead of Sheflin. He is board wrong on a luxury/liability nowadays with the injury, sending off etc. he’s not getting things his own way anymore and it seems to frustrate him. He may well defy them, but I have a feeling the miles on the clock have caught up. That many injuries would break far better athletes.

If you went with local bias aside, on your list I’d have Harnedy no.3. He is more important to Cork now than anyone.

[caoimhaoin]

@scumpot

outrageous…you need to break a few eggs to make an omelette pal…my ability to spot players strengths and weaknesses is second to none on this forum…and every great leader has a healthy bit of paranoia

This is exactly why you wouldn’t be good. Better off as a selector I’d say. You’re still stuck in the 90’s

[myboyblue]

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[KinvarasPassion]

Seamus Callinan??? By that argument Niall Healy should be in the top 10 also.

Both these fellas have shown over the past decade that when it comes to crunch time in the summer they are found badly wanting. I remain to be convinced that either of them will turn it around suddenly in 2014.

[Kid_Chocolate]

That bubbles lad…i’m telling ye been watching him since minor, super talent

[Bad_Winner]

@Kid Chocolate

That bubbles lad…i’m telling ye been watching him since minor, super talent

Lazy trainer though. He is pretty plump right now

[Kid_Chocolate]

thank god for that

[Mark_Renton]

@Bad Winner

Lazy trainer though. He is pretty plump right now

Tipptopps, give us your assessment as to where Tipp are at right now.