Lee has won as many All Ireland’s as any Galway hurler from last 25 years
Seamie Durack
Jackie O’Gorman
B. Lohan
F. Lohan
Ger Loughnane
Seanie McMahon
Sean Stack
Olle Baker
Colin Lynch
John Callinan
Tony Kelly
Jamsie O’Connor
Podge Collins
Ger O’Loughlin
Tony Griffin
Pat o Neill? He had one good year and then ate his way off the Kilkenny panel! Tj Ryan wouldn’t pick him and he likes fat defenders.
Pat Nail was top class (if shortlived). A doughty battler who could give it and take it.
No Ger Henderson mind you but as good as they came. **
** I have lovely memories of Nail’s parents ateing sangwiches across from Quinn’s back in the day. Grumblers wavering about KK’s chances - "that useless cunt Pat Nail etc…" in front of un-beknowing parents.
Nail of course reserved his best performance of all time for the day ahead…
Fógra…the year eludes me ?
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I would say 1992 v Cork @anon67715551, he was magnificent the same day. Marty Morrissey interviewed him after the game and asked him if the corned beef sandwiches he had inspired is performance. Nailer laughed and said “you can’t bate the bit of auld bafe!” He then went on the beer for two weeks solid…
Legend
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Joe Hennessy? JJ to fullback.
JJ wasn’t half as good at full back as half back and nowhere near as good as Hickey full back.
I played special junior with joe when he was well into his 40s. He barely moved 5 yards in the whole game but cleaned up from corner back. Extraordinary stickman. I doubt @Fran remembers him much. I suspect picking Cummins, good and all as he was seemingly, was a forum-pleasing sop to @anon67715551
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Fair comment, just surprised that Joe got no mention at all, a brilliant hurler. Although JJ and Tommy were no-brainers.
The inclusion of Henderson and Cummins was definitely influenced by listening to the auld fella and subsequently seeing them on TG4 All Ireland Gold
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From those I’ve actually seen play.
- Fitzhenry
- Keith Rossiter/John O’Connor
- Darragh Ryan
- Sean Flood
- John Conran
- Liam Dunne
- Larry O’Gorman
- Adrian Fenlon
- Georgie
- Rory McCarthy
- Martin Storey
- Larry Murphy
- Tom Dempsey
- AN Other (Jimmy Holohan, Garry Laffan and Stephen Banville are not worthy of the county that produced the greatest ever full forward - whom I did not see play)
- Codd gets ahead of the Jacobs and a litany of other average corner forwards. Some of the current crop will likely claim this position in the coming years.
I expect Liam Ryan, Lee Chin and Conor MacDonald to be on this team when I next revisit it. Far too early to have them there yet.
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Unfortunately I never forgave Kiely for the Cork game (which spawned the original Limerick GAA thread). I don’t rate Scanlon particularly highly either. It’s one position where I’ve always thought that there were better options in the club scene, but it’s probably not easy to get lads to commit to being a second choice keeper.
Was Richard Bowles any good?
I always thought Lavin was a bit overrated and at least once a game he would go a run up the field before kicking the ball 40 yards wide with a wreckless shot.
I’m probably putting Reidy ahead of a few lads based on his club form. He was a phenomenal club player.
All small need hight
Poor ould Sos was at his peak a little bit before my time. I saw him play, but I probably never appreciated how good he had been. Sweeney was a classy footballer when he wanted to be, one of the few standouts in the era between Micko and Geezer.
I never really rated Sweeney tbh, but fair enough. Nice to see some love for Tadhg Fennin, shur he’s practically a Laois man anyway.
1 Stephen O Keeffe
2 Eoin Murphy
3 Sean Cullinane
4 Noel Connors
5 Tony Browne
6 Fergal Hartley
7 Stephen Frampton
8 Brick Walsh
9 Johnny Brenner
10 Dan Shanahan
11 Ken McGrath
12 Stephen Molumphy
13 John Mullane
14 Eoin Kelly
15 Paul Flynn
No Seamus Prendergast?
@ciarancareyshurlingarmy throw up your football team there, would be interested to see where you rank the great players from the 80’s/90’s (Ivess, Barrett, Leonard etc) with the players from 98 onwards.
No, he’s in the subs
I always think Rod Guiney was very underrated but i’d agree with most of your selections otherwise. Rossiter ahead of O’Connor wont forgive the latter for 1993 and his freetaking or 97 when he let John Leahy do what he wanted. Dempsey will proabbly be pushed out in coming years but a bit of a fan favourite.