Limerick GAA - All-Ireland senior hurling champions 2018

Esso_Oil · July 17, 2018, 4:08pm

You must have been some warped young fella. The county that had JBM, Denis Coughlan, Gerald McCarthy, Charlie McCarthy, Ray Cummins and their ilk and you picked a Limerick man as your favorite player?

anon78624367 · July 17, 2018, 4:10pm

centre forwards weren’t expected to score in that era… just do as much physical wreck as possible around the place. Like Donie O’Connell with Tipp

backinatracksuit · July 17, 2018, 4:11pm

They were all gone, Cummins came back but wasn’t the same, JBM was a Barrs man and overrated, Tom Cashman was my hero but Cregan was something else

Ashman · July 17, 2018, 4:12pm

If they could score it was a bonus . John was a hard man and hadn’t a bad stroke in him . A ferocious competitor and a genuinely nice man .

Esso_Oil · July 17, 2018, 4:14pm

Yeah he was. DId the simple stuff really well and a warrior. Cregan was a great for Limerick but he was a stubborn prick as well but I suppose great players need that stubbornness

Esso_Oil · July 17, 2018, 4:20pm

I’ll fukin gut you.

JBM was a player that could finish a team off in the blink of an eye. Everyone raves about Fentons goal v Limerick but JBM did an overhead pull on a free by Fenton in the AI semi against Galway in the pouring rain that epitomized the man. Economy of effort that encapsulated the essence of the game into a fraction of a second of beauty

backinatracksuit · July 17, 2018, 4:20pm

A fluke

Esso_Oil · July 17, 2018, 4:21pm

You are e-dead to me you cunt.

Ashman · July 17, 2018, 4:22pm

Agree with you in the main but the goal was on a dry day and Fenton delivery wasn’t a free

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=MZIATug2wF4

Esso_Oil · July 17, 2018, 4:23pm

It was pissing rain in Limerick

Ashman · July 17, 2018, 4:24pm

So they said in Angela’s Ashes .

balbec · July 17, 2018, 4:47pm

JBM was box office

backinatracksuit · July 17, 2018, 5:17pm

Box office definitely, great footballer I believe.
Never in the conversation for best hurler in Cork, not to mind Ireland, he had wonderful anticipation in fairness, often in the right place but a limited stick man

balbec · July 17, 2018, 5:26pm

In my formative years Cork had a multitude of guys that would pop up and break your heart. jBM, Seanie Leary, Eamonn O’Donoghue, Pat Horgan, Charlie McCarthy.

Ashman · July 17, 2018, 5:33pm

John Fenton was a scourge .

balbec · July 17, 2018, 5:47pm

Took him a few years to establish himself in Cork. Probably because he wasn’t from the city.

dodgy_keeper · July 17, 2018, 8:15pm

Just watching the last five minutes back again for the 17th time there.

A distraught Duignan desperately appealing for a free in for Kilkenny in the preceding passage of play after Peter Casey dragged us level is my favourite bit.

anon61956325 · July 17, 2018, 8:25pm

But he completely ignored TJ ripping DODs head off at one stage and they getting a point from it.

anon61956325 · July 17, 2018, 10:27pm

The Dow is the man for that scamp O’Donoghue… Flanagan, Dowling, Mulcahy.

anon32894817 · July 17, 2018, 10:36pm

Hegarty really is something else. For a lad that comes from a small junior club and wasn’t even making the 24 man squad for his minor panels his transformation into a senior inter county forward is something else. the ground he made up with three Kilkenny backs chasing him as he ran in on goal was unreal. Didn’t think he’d have the skill to execute a shot like that but he did without really breaking stride.