We need to put a knife through every sliothar in the county.
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Itās clear to see Gleeson holds Waterford back from being a team. Heās too selfish, too indisciplined, too inconsistent and just not a team player. Waterford would improve long-term without him.
Gleeson might have the better mastery of traditional skills of hurling but Lynch has something else entirely, itās like he has created new skills. His vision and game awareness the range of what he can do with the ball when he has it is outrageous. Lynch regularly picks up balls without thinking about it in ways most players probably couldnāt do if you have them ten goes at it on a training pitch. His ability to open things up with his passing and running is also something different in hurling. The way he picks defences apart is more like something youād see in soccer or rugby. I donāt think thereās ever been another player that can do the things he can do. Canning could do the passing but not even he could do some of the other stuff lynch does. I still find it incredible when lynch is getting tackled even by two or three players he has his head up looking for where heās going to play the ball as if heās paying no attention to the players tackling him.
Heās a savage athlete and I donāt mean that in a derogatory. Heād have made some gymnast or something like that.
Heād excel at any sport. Heās gotten bigger too, saw him at the harty final and heās an upper body like a tank.
āItās a bit of a shame really,ā says Nash. āMy uncles would have played for Cork in the 1990s and they always said they loved the league and loved really going out to try and win it. So Iām a bit old-fashioned and youād love if there was that much emphasis still put on it. but back then, you only had one championship match guaranteed so the league meant a lot more."
Anthony Nash in The Times 
Ya his balance gets him out of so much trouble. Even when he first broke on the scene his weak side was very poor and he used to compensate by doing silly flicks and tricks. Heās sorted all that out now.
Gleeson on his day is outstanding but too often in big games heās goes missing.
Until he really performs in these games I wouldnāt mention him in the same breadth as lynch.
Cork arenāt going for the league
When the rats tail was flopping about in the breeze young Austin was winning matches & HOTY gongs.
It took Cian a few years and a whole pile of new money to find his feet. Austin made his own path in tougher fields.
Now, today itās a very close call but if you look at the case objectively then youāll see whoās done more in the game.
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Itās a fair point,
Back then you had to peak in May and stay there for the whole summer. So the later stages of the league would have to have been full championship intensity
Did he have uncles with Cork as well or is that the gag, typo I suppose?
Itās all about silverware
Sure it is, now the big house secured it.
Christ.
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Everyone knows it was a pity HOTY.
Yeah, the transfer kitty has helped a lot 
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Look lads, if ye want to judge a players impact over the couple of seasons heās made a real mark be my guest.
The knowledgeable hurling man must look at the bigger picture.
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Christ on a bicycle
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Iām only going to take comments on this Gleeson / Lynch discussion seriously from neutral non Martinstown pants sniffers.
Did any name mentioned here destroy Cork hurling with a single shoulder?
Mul is the goat
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Lynch has 3 AI and 2 HOTY at 26. Fuck me there is no doubt whos the best player in the country at the moment
Christ on a tandem