Official All Ireland Minor and U20 Hurling & Football Thread (Part 2)

Steady on

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Do TG4 upload matches immediately…?

Was still up there last night anyway

He is.

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I think the live streams are essentially available for playback immediately. I watched the second half late last night as I missed it live.

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Cork, Clare & Limerick all have a scoring forward for their U-20s called Mark O’Brien.

Good start for the Limerick version last night, the Clare one is injured atm but is a serious operator and the Cork one racked up some big tallies at minor last year.

This is the sort of stat we needed to hear from @fran

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The Clare one is Marc

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Christ :man_facepalming:

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Very soft goal for Galway there

Grand they’re online but these 20s games should be on TV really.

Mayo deserved that 2 point lead. Seem to be able to work scores a lot handier whereas Savo’s boys are fortunate to have had a tap in after some braindead defending.

It’s all a bit dumbed down in comparison to the old U21 competitions and the media attention they used to garner. Like you’d still be able to name the Clare U21 teams of 2012-2014, Limerick 2015-17, Waterford 2016 etc.
I’d say Offaly U20’s last year are the only team to really capture the nations attention since the change in age grade.

A Mayo v Galway U20 championship match at half 5 on a Wednesday. Mother of God😂

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This was the All-Ireland final at minor wasn’t it? A Galway team who lost at least twice in Connaught but recovered to win the whole thing out.

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There’s a few from that team but plenty of lads that would know better than me said they don’t look up to much at this age grade. They’re giving a decent account of themselves so far in the champo though in fairness.

Its bananas what they’ve inflicted on us.

Saw the last few minutes of that and Galway hadnt a clue whether to work one, two or three pointers in the end-game.

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Popping over to Ashbourne to see Dublin v Meath u20s. Lethal Lenny on the injury list tonight. Quigley should be the main man up front for Dublin. This could be the start of the Baggio backlash in Leinster

Baggio seems to be clean out of ideas when he can’t buy a Shane Walsh.

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He already has one doesn’t he? There’s a big unit Shane Walsh who plays for Meath I’m fairly sure. I remember being dubious enough when Marty or Ger told us that he was an LC student on the Sunday Game one night back around 2019.

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Clare hitting a lot of wides early on.

Cork very vocal about the work rate from the line.