Top 3 hurlers of all time

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I’ll have to go back and include Mackey on the list of top three bogballers after reading that

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JJ Delaney
Tommy Walsh
Ken McGrath

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Joe cooney
Joe canning
Iggy Clarke.

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Galls me to say it but that stripy bollox Tommy Walsh would be thereabouts.

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Fuck off with your sticky sticky copycat thread.

Also any top 3 that doesn’t have Shefflin in a joke. JJ is the best back I’ve seen and then either Eoin Kelly or Joe Canning, so either @carryharry or @mikehunt have it. I don’t really know anything about old hurling.

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Cian lynch is definitely in this conversation, can’t remember any hurler doing what he can do. It’s on another level now.

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Anyone putting DJ in this should habe their name noted for future reference, that’s all I’m saying.

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I find it strange, especially from Kilkenny lads who should know better.

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If posters could please recount their favourite performances by Christy Ring, Mick Mackey, Lory Meagher and Jimmy Smyth, that would be great

My personal favourite Jimmy Smyth performance was the 1991 Ulster football semi-final replay between Down and Derry

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I was young at the time but Jimmy’s 6-4 against Limerick in the Munster championship in 1953 has never been bettered imho.

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Brian Whelahan
Henry Shefflin
Ken McGrath

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Mackeys munster final performance in 1936. I was standing on a milk crate on the hill of whatever pitch it was that the game was on in.

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If you were to shoe horn in a Cork lad it would have to be Ben OConner for me.

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Which was your favourite goal?

Personally I preferred Nicky Rackard’s performance where he scored 7-7 against Antrim in 1954

My favourite goal was his fifth - nobody else could have scored that sort of a goal

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Ciaran Carey
Ken McGrath
Jackie Tyrell

Honourable mentions to Tipps Eoin Kelly, Joe Canning, DJ Carey and Donie Ryan.

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All of them, as a Clareman at the time you couldn’t beat those Limerick cunts enough.

I’d have scored 7-7 against Antrim myself in 1954.

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When did you decide to be from Galway instead?

I very much doubt it

Antrim were a top team of the time with the talents of Watty Boucher, Sambo McLockdown and Ewan Paisley to the fore

Commonly thought of as the best team to ever come out of Ulster

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And I.

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Mackey reinvented hurling. Mackey is the man that created the modern game. A God.

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Incorrect

The Wexford team of the 1950s invented modern hurling

They were the first team to ever make catching the ball a tactic