Is it safe to say Tipp have produced the most electrifying forward hurling has ever seen? Outside Mullane, Tony Kelly there’s not many that would touch your Eoin Kelly’s, Lar Corbetts, Seamie Callanans, Bubbles Dwyers, Nicky English’s et al
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He scored 0-03 on his debut and 1-03 in a Munster Final at 20.
3 from play in an AI Final at 21 despite being almost decapitated by some Kilkenny hatchetman corner back in the opening 5 minutes.
At 31 he was HOTY.
Longevity wasnt an issue.
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Your Eddie Brennan’s Richie Powers Henry Shefflins Richie Hogans Eoin Larkins would beg to differ
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Fine functional hurlers and grand workers but they wouldn’t have the same pizazz as a bubbles or either of the two Kelly’s. Larkin was lovely and grand.
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When did he win hoty? You need that and an all Ireland medal to be a hall of famer
Do you? Hardly
Yeah they only won 6AIs in 7 years as opposed to lads in your selection who won a similar amount combined over the last 52 years
2019
Callanan was a classy hurler.
That’s a nice target, albeit you qualified it. Hego is on 3-16 from five at the moment.
Look, I know you’re about a bit of straight line thinking and functionality and that’s grand. It’s grand. But some of us want more than missionary from the missus, we want a bit of spank and a a bit of filth. Your lads there will get the job done just grand with your missus but the other boys, they’ll curl her toes.
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- Brendan Cummins
- Cathal Barrett
- Paul Curran
- Michael Cahill
- Brendan Maher
- Ronan Maher
- Padraic Maher
- Tommy Dunne
- Noel McGrath
- John O’Dwyer
- Patrick Maher
- Lar Corbett
- Eoin Kelly
- Seamus Callanan
- John McGrath
Thats the best I’ve seen but i never saw Fox, English, Leahy, Big Dec, Michael Cleary or any of those fellas.
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Pat Fox was the man.
Big. Game. Player.
An Energizer bunny yet totally laid back. He had the wrists, but in a different way to Bubbles. Bubbles would crush the handle of a hurley with his hands, his hands being propelled by his wrists, his wristS being powered by his forearms. Fox would caress a hurley lightly through his hands, with total control, much like a good hand job, but the connection would be perfect every time. He played with a sliotar like how you’d play off a wall with a tennis ball. He was a little bit one sided but so was Maradona. Some players are good enough with one side that they don’t have to use their weak side much. That weak side still scored one of the best goals I’ve seen, against Galway in 1987. His pivot back onto the left was one of the most reassuring sights in Irish sport. Always there, always dependable.
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Very modern team but fair enough. Theyd take beating. A modern Limerick team is very easy. It’s the current team. Shaughs and Reale should be in there but I couldn’t drop Nash or Finn, or Gillane or Casey. Maybe an argument for Shaughs ahead of Flanagan. But he is so key to the team. Man for man Shaughs was better though. Reale was my hero growing up, but he isn’t better than Finn. And Nash is the key. He was a better defender than Nash
I saw Pat Fox play over 40s a long long long time ago. And he was still electric
He had the gift of doing things at speed yet being able to make it look like these things were being done at his leisure. You can only do that if you cut out all superfluosities. The excellence of execution*.
*I’m still amazed that the supporters of the team formerly known as Newcastle United haven’t yet tried to adopt this as a club slogan.
When you are good the game seems to slow down around you.
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Leahy or Big Dec at 11. Nicky at 15.
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Could definitely see those lads winning wan in a row.
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