While a huge admirer of MC, I agree particularly about EL. His ability to step off either foot in tight circumstance, ghosting round a tackler, was remarkable – and often unmarkable. Once EL acquired a quick dependable stroke off his left side, around 2008, his game went up a couple of notches
Had he not been a hurler, EL could easily have been a world class rugby centre.
Hugely so. But another Richie Power.
that offaly team was great to watch to be fair. Pilkington, the dooleys, whelehan. Duignan had a lovely cut about him. A great team
Joe and Johnny Dooley made it look effortless. Johnny Dooley and Tommy Dunne were both very similar style players.
jaysus he was a lovely hurler. Criminally underrated in Tipp as well.
Brian Whelahan was one of the very very very few lads who could simultaneously hurl brilliant and talk brilliant to teammates.
Henry Shefflin could also manage this double task.
Was that the team Derry had on the ropes only for their free taker to get injured?
I suspect you already know the answer
He is not, stop typing lies you uucoam.
Has Joe ever won a final being the driving force of the team from start to finish?
I started going to games in the early 80s and Cregan was the hurler I was when I was lashing the ball against the wall, by then he was well past his prime, there’s a lot more skill in the game in general now but I don’t think I’ve ever seen that level of wizardry since, I’d always have him in the conversation of the greats
Paul Flynn was another artist
Larkin definitely
Although not in an all-time greats Joe Deane was a touch of class
Cregan in 1980 took on galway and nearly beat them. It was one of the truly great aif performances. An outstanding hurler. So was noel Lane.
But Iggy was a true great.
Still think Joe Cooney was as good ass galway ever had.
No offense to you or him mate and Noel Lane was a good hurler but not in the context of this thread,
Ah he was a super player.
All true – except the current game, to my mind, being so much more skilful. The game now is different, as the game in the 1950s was to the game in the 1930s. There are great hurlers now – but how skilful are Jonathan Glynn and Gearóid McInerney, David Dempsey and Dan Morrissey, Séamus Kennedy and Patrick ‘Bonnar’ Maher, Liam Blanchfield and Conor O’Shea?
Joe contributed from play in every final he played. DJ didn’t. Them’s the facts.
This has descended into a a listing of all good hurlers lad remember.