Cc @balbec
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Twee is off the charts with a large dash of poetic licence.
Bromell was mainly responsible for beating us in a minor football replay one year, he crossed codes.
The sporting nostalgia and tweeness is off the charts and giving me a pain in the hole at this stage . The Darren frehill memories thing in the morning picking events that have been covered frequently over the years - Sonia , Darby goal ; Offaly 94 , Ronnie Delaney , Stuttgart 88 .
Precisely. A bit of outside the box thinking wouldn’t go astray. Woolie had Stephen King on the other day about the Cavan Ulster win, it was great to actually hear something different.
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Would you consider a letter to the editor?
I would not
Could you not put up 1985, 1992, 1994, 2010, 2012, 2014???
Someone in Sporting Limerick must have a grudge on Kilmallock
Show the replay against Bruree in '94. Ten minutes of power just blew them away. Or the club final v Toome in '94.
What age was Cregan in '86?
40 or so.
They won the minor that day too . Mike Galligan was their talisman . It was a high water mark for them as a hurling club
Did they win the football around that time as well?That was the last time they won the hurling.
They won the senior football that year too.They kept on winning football titles well in to the nineties .
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Is this it?
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They haven’t a chance against us.
Hon Limerick!
I watched the '86 final back, apparently Cregan was actually 42!
Basically a completely different game to modern hurling, different skillsets valued more. When did striking with the short grip become commonplace? The amount of times fellas get hooked with the long hurley, while standing up is absolutely crazy. And would drive any of those fellas playing who are now coaches mental!
Most of the scores came from frees but the Claughaun forward line did look more threatening. They were probably better ballwinners, more likely to take their men on and more likely to win frees. Some big names too; a forward line of Danny Fitz, Leo O’Connor, Gussie Ryan, Mike Ryan and the two Reas, Mattie and Jack. Mike Ryan was the best of them on the day, although you could tell Leo had a bit of class even if he only scored frees.
Adare were really relying on Shane Fitzgibbon massively in attack; he was very lively alright, although Billy Galligan did a decent job marking him. The Claughaun full-back line of Galligan, Cregan and John Fitz were excellent.
Mike Alfred was some Rolls Royce of a hurler too, serious player! You’d wonder how he never played for Limerick.
Claughaun were able to bring on Noel Leonard too. Didn’t seem above a bit of poaching- Leonard from Monaleen, the two Reas from Effin and the goalkeeper, Cronin, was from Newmarket apparently.
Good game to watch though; nice intensity, some lovely pieces of skill as well as some shocking pieces of play. A lovely overhead strike for a goal; a scrap and double red card in the second half, shoulders on coaches, the whole lot. Looked like Cregan’s legs might have been gone at one point, Benson scored a lovely point off him in the second half which was very similar to Cregan’s in the All-Ireland Final in 1980 but after that, Cregan mopped up at full-back.
Don’t know who the commentator was, but he had a great, genuine knowledge of both sides. You could tell it wasn’t just pure rehearsed stuff, he knew the players and knew stuff about them.
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14 for kilmalock was a handful.