Official All Ireland Minor and U20 Hurling & Football Thread (Part 1)

Hon ta fuck

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Great corner back play by the KK number 2 and he ruined it by taking the wildest swing since John Mulhall and was hooked. Play stopped.

Galway win!

The team that refused to be beaten!

Three times Kilkenny had them beaten and let it slip each time.

Two high balls into the square win it for Galway

I fucking love Galway*

Most likely to change my view anytime after 4::0 pm toda

Shades of Jack Carr off the bench in 2011

Great stuff. Never gave in when the game looked like getting away from them.

Nice to see a ref allow a forward challenge a 'keeper in the square under a high ball, most of the time the forward has a free given against him.

I think Dublin are a good bet at 7/4 v Tipp

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Jeffrey may have overstated the extent of his cupla focal

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Most people would consider that a square ball

Yeah, surprised it wasn’t given as a square ball

Team sheets for the second minor semi-final:

Tipperary

  1. Padraic Hayes – Ballingarry
  2. Enda Heffernan – Clonoulty Rossmore
  3. Emmet Moloney – Drom & Inch
  4. James Quigley – Kildangan
  5. Kevin Hassett – Drom & Inch
  6. Brian McGrath – Loughmore Castleiney
  7. Darragh Peters – Kilruane MacDonaghs (Capt.)
  8. Darragh Carey – Templederry Kenyons
  9. Liam McCutcheon – Templederry Kenyons
  10. Cian Darcy – Kilruane MacDonaghs
  11. Garry Ryan – Borrisokane
  12. Alan Tynan – Roscrea
  13. Thomas Nolan – Drom & Inch
  14. David Gleeson – Ballinahinch
  15. Lyndon Fairbrother – JK Brackens

Dublin

  1. Eoin Skelly (Na Fianna)
  2. Cian Hendricken (Naomh Mearnog)
  3. Darragh Butler (Kilmacud Crokes)
  4. Conor Ryan (Craobh Chiarain)
  5. Eoin Foley (Naomh Olaf)
  6. Paddy Smyth (Clontarf)
  7. Daire Gray (Whitehall Colmcille)
  8. Matthew Oliver (Na Fianna)
  9. Carl Sammon (Craobh Chiarain)
  10. Eoghan Conroy (St Maur’s)
  11. Mark Maguire (St Jude’s)
  12. Ciaran Dowling (Lucan Sarsfields)
  13. Fergal Whitely (Kilmacud Crokes)
  14. Alex Considine (Kilmacud Crokes)
  15. Eoghan Dunne (St Brigid’s)

I think Tipperary will murder Dublin here.

Tipp are far from vintage. 2-3 exceptional players but overall relatively limited.

The winners were always coming from other semi final.

They are minors. Wouldn’t worry about it. Ye will get 3-4 from that team

Tipp got a very soft goal early on but Dublin have now hit four points in a row.

Tipp 1-3 Dublin 0-5
14:31.

The final hasn’t been played yet.

Another soft goal for Tipperary.

Dublins intent on the ball has been very good, continually lifting the head and attempting measured balls, not always working though.

Another sloppy goal to concede

True but a Kilkenny team going two days on the spin in Croke Park without scoring a goal may spark a mini inquisition.
Joking aside, yeah, there’s a couple there that look promising. Leahy is a lovely hurler and Joyce could come good.
Whatever happens, we’ll be waiting a good while to see any of them trouble a senior jersey, such is the way things are done now.