He looked totally off the pace in last years league but knuckled down well thereafter . He was good overall
I think his legs are gone. Callanan a couple of years ago would be hands down in my team, ditto Paudie Maher and the McGraths, but based on current Iād have Forde in there heās Tipps best forward currently
Hannon was our best forward in 2014 as a chap and then became our best back when he went back - who was saying that about him?
Gearoid Hegarty was christened the messiah for scoring something like 13 points from play between the Munster Final, All Ireland Semi & All Ireland Final.
Big Austin got 10 from play in those games and wasnāt even given an All Star. Waterford were cycling uphill with the wind in their faces in those games too when Austin still came up with the goods.
A victim of his own success.
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Iām a huge fan of Hannon but 2014 was the first year he truly stepped up and delivered on his potential. He was good in 2013 too. He dipped again after that until the move to half back.
Hannon was very average from 2015 to 2017 . He was good in 2014 ok but had patchy moments that year .
There were doubts when he was put at 6.
Did he?
I would consider TdB one of the deepest-lying centre-backs in the game. The odd foray forward, yes, but generally; how many times did he venture past the opposition '65 in comparison with Lyons or Moran? Hannon gets forward a bit, but not as often as Byrnes or Kyle. Galway slightly different as they played a sweeper last year, but generally, wing-backs have more licence to attack.
I thought he did, he made some very eye-catching runs forward, certainly more than Hannon.
De Burca does everything and everything he does, he does well. He sits on the edge of the big D as his starting point but covers sideline to sideline and attacks some amount of breaks and tidies huge amount of ball. He makes every other player in the defence better due to this and what he does is not really replicable as he just reads and anticipates the play so well.
He is by a distance the best centre back going especially now in an age where the centre back role has become fairly one dimensional compared to what it was 20 years ago.
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he missed a load of time with injury one of those years. Limerick dipped massively under TJ in those years
Eamon Cregan was crying out for Hannon to play corner forward at the time.
Himself and Barron have a telepathic understanding too and are the starting point for all Waterfordās attacks.
Yip, up until Bennettās emergence last year they were the two main men. Bennett is now hugely important
Derek McGrath got the best out of Aussie
His performances against Kilkenny in Thurles in 2016/17 will live long in the memory.
The great Tipperary journalist JJ Kennedy whoās been going to games for nearly 60 years, said after 2016 his performance in Thurles was the best ever and he wouldnāt say that lightly.
He made some really good players like TJ Reid and Cillian Buckley look like complete mugs on those nights.
He made an interesting point on the Dalo podcast that perhaps Aussie is better as an attacking wing back rather than 6, let Daly play the holding centre back role and have to attacking wing backs that can score
Derekās three reasons to be a teacher āJune, July & Augustā. Derek named about six teams as favourites for the All Ireland. Except Clare and Wexford.
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Has Austin gleeson the legs to do a Kyle Hayes attacking half back role ??
He does not have the same pace or physical strength of Hayes who could be a generational wing back by the time he is finished.
I would think that too albeit he has more hurling than Hayes .