Bubbles touch and general wrist work was the best I’ve seen watching the game.
A big game player.
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Wrists of gold.
He epitomised our boom-bust culture in Tipp, more or less not bothering a couple of years (2018 and 2020 were classics of this genre) but then he’d just come back and effortlessly win an All Ireland and or All Star.
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Some years, he’d do it all in one season.
2016 the best example. Red v Limerick in Munster semi, suspended for final, off bench in AI semi with a goal and then a tour de France in the final itself.
It’s mad that 2014 was his only All Star but I think that was partially down to the interrupted seasons he often had.
Did he not get one in 2019?
He was unreal that year except for the 35 minutes against Wexford where Shaun Murphy gave a performance from Mount Rushmore that i have never seen anything quite like before or since. Cc @Bandage @Aertel220
I’m looking forward to Paul Murphy from Kilkenny giving his tribute if he’s not still picking up his hurley down in the corner of the Cusack and Davin Stands
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Nope.
He had a few great games earlier in the round robin as well. A tour de France against Cork.
Swagger.
Paul Murphy who has four times as many All Stars as ‘Bubbles’?
The very same. Usually the wrists did the damage, but John’s ankles bought and sold poor Murphy so bad he forgot for a second he had hands and dropped his hurley.
Would be fitting for Bubbles’ wrists to be right next to Murphy’s biceps in the hypothetical hurling museum.
Bubbles will be remembered. Paul not so much so. It is the nature of it. We love our wristy mavericks.
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All the best Bubbles. Thanks for the memories.
He’ll always have those two All Ireland medals.
And the one All Star
What was the story with Bubbles?
Fucked with injury?
Yeah.
He was never the best to mind himself.
Shane Dowling was in the same category as a talented unfit type but Bubbles was a far superior hurler.
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He had a lovely mix of ignorance and arrogance about him.
During his CIT days, one winters night he went down to the Mardyke (the home of UCC) and started hitting frees from the sideline out around the 45/65 while a Ladies Football match was ongoing. Poor goalie had to get the ref to tell him to stop as sliotars were fizzing over the crossbar while she was trying to concentrate.
He sounds like a cunt.
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Would this lower your opinion of him?
Summed up magnificently. Bubbles will always be remembered.
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A lone star, misogynistic one in a rower who couldn’t use his wristy wrists to push himself away from the table.
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And a potty mouth in interviews.