After Ritchie Hogan TJ was the best attacking option Brian Cody ever had. The likes of Power, Brennan, Taggy or the Comefords of the world were good but TJ a true great.
Callanan from Tipp was nowhere on that level, fine hurler with an eye for goal but thatās about it. The stuff that was going on inside and outside the Tipp camp that time says it all really
Callanan could easily have 4 HOTY awards.
A true, true great.
You couldnāt really classify TJ as a prolific scorer from play like Joe or Seamie when it gets down to the business end.
2019 in the three knock out matches in Croke Park, cumulatively he scored 0-2 from play. Scoreless in quarter final against Cork and 0-1 from play in both semi final and final against Limerick and Tipperary.
In 2018, 0-1 from play in quarter final defeat to Limerick.
2017, Kilkenny had their shortest summer since 1996, losing to Waterford in a qualifier. TJ scored 1-1 from play there.
In 2016 scoreless from play in semi final draw against Waterford, 0ā1 from play in replay and scoreless in final hammering to Tipperary.
I would have TJ third tbh. Joe walks it for me.
A desperate bang of jealousy off the wexford lads rowing hard in behind their ārivalsā Kilkenny but common sense has seen through
TJ is overrated because of the way hurling has gone.
The Wexford lads enjoy taking it up the ass from their perceived betters, same as it always was, except for a brief blip in 1798.
Sorry but thatās a pile of pish top to bottom
Exactly. A post that should have been abandoned early on.
Joe played centre field for portumna on their way to a club all Ireland.
Was that the year he should have been sent off for an awful bit of dirt on Breen I think?
Dowling he gave the hurl into the ribs to I think.
It was filthā¦ any other player would have been given a red.
One of the worst things I ever saw on a pitch
It was Downes who got the low blow that afternoon.
Was there not some stage where TJ ended up playing way out the field for KK in the middle of games and he looked pretty ordinary? 2ā16, 2ā17 maybe? I recall a few games where he popped up quite a bit in the half back/midfield area and hit some woeful ball into where he should have been positioned. Has since resumed being God-like up front of course.
He was around midfield in both those years alright and wasnāt hectic.
Austin Gleeson sold him for a bag of chips in Thurles in 2017.
The bag of chips has had the last laugh on Austin.
It wasnt it was Dave Dempsey who was cleaning up out around midfield.