Hickey was not targetted by refs would you come off it. Refs were scared shitless of kk til Barry Kelly came along in 2012 or so and start called frees against them and Cody nearly had a conniption.
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I donāt think Seamus Roche ever got a game again after he gave a free against Kilkenny.
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A quote from PM OāSullivan @Fagan_ODowd.
Realistically, the charge list runs no further than
a flake at Eoin Brislane in the 2003 League Final and
a swipe at Mike Fitzgerald in September 2007. For
a man now in his 11th season with Kilkenny, it is an
admirable roster.
As an aside how many Sliotar Magazines was there @Malarkey? I have 12 here on my PC.
Who wouldnāt have hit Eoin Brislane, presented with the opportunity?
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TJ Reid used to read Sliothar Magazine.
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Hegarty has earned his reputation, he has had plenty of dirty moments
Hickey like Hegarty hounded Waterford too with head high challenges
Hickey had a what you would at best class a fairly cynical swipe, and that would be generous, at Tony Griffin after he won a penalty in the 2004 drawn encounter after McGarry foot tripped him and Griffin was on the ground with the ball in his hand. Hickey swiped down on top of him.
There was a clothesline tackle on Griffin in the replay as well as he looked to take Hickey on and work a goal chance but that one was more cynical than dirty.
Do you think that comment about NH was unreasonableā¦?
On Sliotarā¦ Off top of my head, not quite sure. I think there was a number 13 that did not go out, because of a hissy fit by a control freak. There might even have been a number 14. Will check at some point. Stuff not easily to hand ā but I will try to check.
Unfortunately got myself involved with a lad who wanted me to do all the work while he pressed a button or two. At the time, I was technologically illiterate. The same prickaun later deleted the whole data base in a fit of pique and sheer bad nature.
Still, I learned a lot of useful practical stuff and made some great contacts. A profound lesson learned at cheap cost, as a wise businessman friend later remarked to me.
Funny enough, a couple of people came up to me in Cleereās not long back praising stuff in Sliotar. Not a clue, me. Have not looked at that stuff in yonks.
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He used to look at the pictures
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Thatās not nice.
You really do talk ferocious shite. You have never had an original idea in your life and you never will. And you must be one of the very stupidest people here, which is an awful status. You remind me of a character that should have been on Wanderly Wagon, popping up all over the place as if it was the Eurovision Inanity Contest.
Quite a few of the most biased refereeing performances in history arrived during the 2000s. They all involved Killkenny getting the wrong end of things. Nadir: 2005 All Ireland semi final against Galway, when Mr Highlights refereed.
Karma is a witch.
Youāre in trouble now. Incoming from Malarky
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See, I take your points, which are fair, and I consider you one of the sharpest judges of hurling around. But these things need to be taken in the round, over the length of a long career. One of my all time favourite hurlers is Brian Lohan ā but he essayed a fair few questionable ones (and some highly questionable ones) over his career. Which or whether, I always wondered about the emphasis on Noel Hickey in the late 2000s when you had someone who went millimetres from taking out someoneās eye, culpably, on a hurling field in 2004. Kilkenny success ā but not thinking of you, here ā really did drive people demented.
Noel Hickey had a reputation in Kilkenny club hurling as an exceptionally clean defender.
I could get a bit creeped out about this stuffā¦
There is no h in āsliotarā. Kevin Cashman once corrected me on this point.
Kevin Cashman tried in vain to correct my golf grip of a Hurley
The only reason he ever got a game was because he had a clubman on the Munster Council.
As any sensible Tipp person I know would quickly say, Roche was a terrible referee and a pain in person. Back in the early to mid 2000s, he was on the road (for hairdressing products, I believe) and quite often used have lunch in Carrollās of Knocktopher. He used openly talk in there of how much he hated Kilkenny, of how he would ādoā them one day in a big match.
I suppose he won Cork that two in a row. He probably got a lot of shampoo orders in Liscarroll and Kildorrey and Union Hall on the back of it.
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Did heā¦? Jaysus. I am somehow highly impressed. Was he a good coach?
Walking down John Street last Thursday afternoon, after attending a funeral in Johnswell, an echt Kilkenny spot where I had never been before, and I was hailed by a Blackrock stalwart. A lovely man whom I had never met in person ā and therefore did not recognize ā but with whom I had spoken several times on the phone. He was spending a few days away in Kilkenny with his wife.
I took them across to Tower & Castle for tea. We gave the guts of hour chatting ā mostly about Kevin Cashman, someone I would like to visit again.