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

[Pirlo]

Tyrone need a man too harness the success.

[peddlerscross]

Malachy has it.

[Cheasty]

@peddlerscross

Malachy has it.

Malachy has a lovely easy way about him, but total authority. That’s managerial gold. He reminds me very much of a relative of mine from not too far away from Malachy’s neck of the woods who a similar lovely easy way about him.

[endakenny]

@Cheasty

@endakenny

If you put Kerry into the ulster u20 championship then that would be the championship there.

Derry, Armagh & Donegal gave Tyrone bags of it.

I’d imagine the children’s championship this year is a pretty much straight shoot out between Tyrone and Kerry too. Tyrone won four minor titles between 2001 and 2010 but none since then so it’s about time they put that right.

Wouldn’t rule out a Tyrone clean sweep of senior, youths and childrens this year.

Tipperary are more or less unbeaten in the hurling primary game. I’d say the same would apply for Kerry in football, Tyrone would dominate the u13 in Ulster also.

[peddlerscross]

Allianz National Football League 2025

I still have faith in the Ryan Porter, ‘don’t burn the roast’ approach paying dividends later in the year. The Canavan’s should change everything for them.

I’m a big fan of the Ryan Porter, “Don’t burn the roast” approach.

[endakenny]

@Galaxy

Is it just me or are young lads from ulster counties always more articulate than the rest of the country?

They all go to good catholic schools and still go to mass up there.

[Cheasty]

@Galaxy

Is it just me or are young lads from ulster counties always more articulate than the rest of the country?

Accents are not built equally. Some accents are built for speaking fluently more than others. Some accents are built so that the speaker comes across as a much formidable person than a person with a different accent saying the exact same thing.

The only successful association football managers from this island have all been from the wee six. That’s not a coincidence. The man who channelled the feelings of a nation for 40 years is a wee six man. That’s not a coincidence.

As I referenced a short while back, the Th’rone dh’rawl has remarkable gravitas when it comes to Gaelic football, and a remarkable gravitas in general. The most formidable politician on this island is a Tyrone woman who speaks fluent Th’rone dh’rawl. The BBC’s senior snooker commentator speaks in a clipped Tyrone accent. In a Gaelic football context the Th’rone dh’rawl just signifies proper football man-ness. It’s never happened before that the Sunday Game’s three most senior pundits have been from the same county. It couldn’t happen with any other county.

[peddlerscross]

TG4’s Senior Football Analyst is also a Throne man - Mark Harte.

[Cheasty]

Horse Devlin has revolutionised Louth football.

[Cheasty]

@peddlerscross

I hope you are right!

Any time previously Armagh have won Sam, Tyrone have won it the following year.

[Fagan_ODowd]

@Cheasty

The man who channelled the feelings of a nation for 40 years is a wee six man. That’s not a coincidenc

Who is this fella?

[peddlerscross]

George Hamilton

[Halfpipe]

Sure it’s the very same on here

[kerry1891]

@Cheasty

@peddlerscross

Mcelholm has it.

You wouldn’t bet too much against him having a senior All-Ireland medal to add to this within a couple of months.

The phrase “Terrible Twins” has a long cachet in Gaelic football going back to Purcell and Stockwell. Canavan and Cush were the new Terrible Twins in the 1990s, now it’s the two Canavans, and now again it’s Grimes and McElholm.

Was Cush that good? I am not sure about him meriting mention in the same song as Stockwell, Purcell and Peter the Great

[Cheasty]

@kerry1891

Was Cush that good? I am not sure about him meriting mention in the same song as Stockwell, Purcell and Peter the Great

He was a very classy player but he never fulfilled his potential, similar to his Derry contemporary Eamon Burns. He missed the All-Ireland final in 1995 due to injury after a good showing off the bench in the semi-final. Himself and Canavan were referred to as the Terrible Twins due them demolishing Kerry by 20 points in the under-21 final in Newbridge in 1991.

Nice goal by him here.

Adrian Cush (Tyrone) Goal v Derry 1991 Ulster Senior Football C'Ship Preliminary Round

[endakenny]

His son is a nice player.

[peddlerscross]

I see Fay Devlin from Ardboe had a son playing tonight.

Has McGleenan’s son kicked on at all? A huge man who made his senior championship debut as a 19 year old v Armagh in 2022 I think.

[Special_Olympiakos]

@Cheasty

Wonderful to see a pitch without 65s marked out.

First game in the new Stad de Frank there was no 45 lines

[Pirlo]

No need, first games were double header hurling matches.

[Turenne]

Will KK/Tipp U-20 be online this weekend?