Joe Canning, Unquestionably the GOAT

[flattythehurdler]

I’d add to this, that there isn’t really any wild country above the clifden road til well out past moycullen which is effectively a suburb now.

[Malarkey]

@flattythehurdler

There was. Had a special folder underneath the counter. Led to the famous and true episode of a well known local bar manager (and good pal) getting a phone call to the bar, and the barmaid coolly turned round and said xxxx, the video library say penetrator 3 is overdue, and can you send it back.

Aha… Yes, there was an edge to the place.

I was such an arty farty ponce that I was renting this kind of stuff at the time…

[endakenny]

Would that current moycullen football team have many blowins or are they from local stock? Some pick now.

[the_man_himself]

I thought it was wild enough but a while since I was there now. I trained with them once midweek when I was in college. Sound lads

[Malarkey]

@Ambrose_McNulty

Ah they’re grand people. If he stayed around Kinvara might still be senior, but he wouldn’t have his senior medal.

I did get the impression he was from sound stock. Mind you, we are talking a short enough phonecall ten plus years ago…

[eoghanruadha]

Pretty much unheard of, you’d have smaller ‘independent’ clubs like Carrigeen, Threecastles & Cloneen where an exceptional underage player might be given blessing to join the ‘superior’ neighbour e.g. Sean Meally (hardly high profile).

There was talk from time to time of other high profile players from junior/inter being lured to city senior clubs, most plausible one was Dermot Maher(Paulstown) to the Village; didn’t materialise.

High profile transfers have been to outside the county, Denis Byrne to Mullinahone was a clanger!
Eamonn Morrissey also outside the county.

[flattythehurdler]

The population of moycullen I’d reckon is 80% people born outside the parish. If you turn left or right, especially right at the crossroads, the estates run in for miles, where there were none thirty years ago. It’s massive.

[Malarkey]

@peddlerscross

Most young people don’t give a fuck about parish boundaries. The knowledge isn’t being passed down the generations.

Not true in Kilkenny.

[flattythehurdler]

I pitched up there once a few years back when I was home. I didn’t know anyone but trained with them and loved it. They were great. I was the worst there by a chalk.

[flattythehurdler]

@Malarkey

True…

So many instances of that stuff. But can only say I found him really pleasant

He may well have moved to the city long term. Best way of meeting folk and making a life is by joining the local club. As long as it’s genuine, it should be encouraged imo.

[Malarkey]

@Halfpipe

He also moved to Castlegar from Kilconly. @Malarkey, as you can see @ironmoth is far more informed on this than me, but the discussion here also reminded me that there is some rule in Galway (not sure if it is in the books or just an accepted approach) that you can transfer clubs if moving up the grades. Brady was an example of this, a minor keeper from Mountbellew went to Turloughmore on a similar basis 20 years ago, and I am sure there have been more.

Thanks very much. More fascinating information.

I guess in counties where football is also really strong there is a need for pragmatic accomodations to be made.

[maroonandwhite]

@Halfpipe

Brady was an example of this, a minor keeper from Mountbellew went to Turloughmore on a similar basis 20 years ago, and I am sure there have been more.

Dullaghan.

There’d be nothing said about county standard players moving up to better clubs.

Added to that the majority of Galway clubs are one code only, any rule based on proximity is disregarded if switching to a new code.

[Malarkey]

@flattythehurdler

@Malarkey

That comment is utter rubbish

I’m not so sure. I certainly think that whilst inter club transfers will continue to be sticky where not symbiotic for all parties, kids will be able to start where they want without such a slide rule applied, for better or worse.

I meant people will continue to know where parish boundaries are, even if they lose all traction for GAA purposes.

[the_man_himself]

Callan Windgap ones a few years ago fairly high profile or did they go through after?

[flattythehurdler]

I think BC has helped maintain club discipline in KK by being clear that hurling junior is no impediment. In Galway I reckon it probably is, and this was my major issue with MoD who didn’t seem to scour the county.

[flattythehurdler]

Someone will always know.

[Iggy]

John Hanbury on the 2017 winning team is RNC. Underrated player I thought. Drifted away after 2018 due to work demands I think. Still only 28.

[the_man_himself]

Kilkenny junior is a very good standard also compared to most counties

[flattythehurdler]

Ya his home is in tonabrockey only over the hill.
Tony Og was the other. Again I thought unfairly maligned. Superb club hurler who did his utmost for Galway

[Malarkey]

@endakenny

OLG suffering a bit lately I hear with a few good young lads going out to the Boro from that school.

Yer club structures are excellent but getting out of junior is very difficult. Would two up/down between intermediate and junior help?

Yes, quite a few from Castlecomer Road, say, go to St Canice’s NS and naturally gravitate to Dicksboro. The 'Boro would also have lads from the parish of Freshford, Threecastles end, for the same reason.

I would not go at all for ‘two up, two down’… Too feverish.