Limerick GAA - All-Ireland senior hurling champions 2018

Ashman · July 17, 2018, 4:08pm

No comparison but by god John Flanagan was a proper warrior in an era when they were needed .

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.