Retiring GAA Stars tribute thread - May cause brain/neck damage

[carryharry]

What’s with the tears, this was common knowledge as far back as June.

[Bandage]

I remember Anthony “hehehehehe” Daly saying “he even has a skill named after himself…the Brick flick” in relation to Michael Walsh a few years ago. I was curious as I’d never heard it mentioned beforehand. Now Walsh has retired there’s loads of #brickflick chat doing the rounds. My question…is the Brick flick part of the GGA hurling lexicon? Would you hear it mentioned in training sessions, during matches, on pitches, in dressing rooms?

[Batigol]

No

[Big_Dan_Campbell]

Conor Clancy was the main exponent of that flick in the 90s.

[the_man_himself]

It was a big thing around 2010/11 iirc

[Sidney]

@Bandage

I remember Anthony “hehehehehe” Daly saying “he even has a skill named after himself…the Brick flick” in relation to Michael Walsh a few years ago. I was curious as I’d never heard it mentioned beforehand. Now Walsh has retired there’s loads of #brickflick chat doing the rounds. My question…is the Brick flick part of the GGA hurling lexicon? Would you hear it mentioned in training sessions, during matches, on pitches, in dressing rooms?

It was lovingly described here many years ago

@Sidney

His usual style is to bend down to lift up breaking ball, turn around and go backwards, then sideways, then reverse sideways before short grip tennis stroking the sliotar to a team mate, all the while looking off balance and running in a kind of ungainly, waddling style.

[Aristotle]

We had Daly for a session a couple of years ago and he must have said it 4 or 5 times. I have never heard it being used in a real life scenario other than that. It was probably fresh in his mind at the time tbf.

[Appendage]

Hand pass generally a better option surely lads? Surely?

[Aristotle]

The one-handed flick is effective where someone is hanging off your handpassing arm.

[Big_Dan_Campbell]

Exactly or if you are trying to transfer the ball to a man on the same side as the hand passing arm under pressure. One movement instead of two.

[Fagan_ODowd]

The Brick has a Munster Under 21 football medal.

[StoneCold]

@Bandage

Would you hear it mentioned in training sessions, during matches, on pitches, in dressing rooms?

Yes

[Ashman]

True .

[Fagan_ODowd]

@Ashman

True .

Kerry came down to Walsh Park and we walked all over the cunts.

“The Gooch” was sent home with his tea in a mug.

[anon70480284]

And Donaghy, Sullivan, Quill and the rest of them

[Appendage]

Brick did a lot of superfluous flicking.

[Big_Dan_Campbell]

Agreed, he wasn’t a great striker or distributor and relied a lot on the Brick Flick

[PhattPike]

@Bandage

My question…is the Brick flick part of the GGA hurling lexicon? Would you hear it mentioned in training sessions, during matches, on pitches, in dressing rooms?

The reality is Daly himself probably invented it as a phrase, but I have subsequently heard at least one coach (not Daly) use it in a training session.

[caulifloweredneanderthal]

Certainly not a star but a solid back up option.

Looked good when he first broke through and then spent a few years in the wilderness before Mick Ryan brought him back in. Couldn’t imagine he’d be getting near the 26 next year, and oldest player on panel at 31

Excellent club hurler

https://tipperary.gaa.ie/tipperary-press-release-donagh-maher/

[glasagusban]

The two-in-a-row-train is coming off the tracks already I see.