Without a doubt tyrone 2008 qf. Bawled like a baby. Mayo 2006 was a sickener too. Oh and armagh 2002. God theres been so many through the years. *skips off to watch last years semi and final as therapy

Jackeen (Dublin) - Posts: 4097 - 14/08/2014 10:28:09    1636709

Has to be the 1914 football final....ref did us out of 5 in a row!

juniorbsub (Wexford) - Posts: 646 - 14/08/2014 10:29:55    1636711

aidan64, sure they were a well beaten docket by us long before the full time whistle in the 2009 Semi final. I enjoyed that victory immensely after 2001. I swear myself and the folks must have been the only Kerry people still in Croker at full time in 2001, real bad day at the office. And yet to this day at every championship game I still see some one wearing that accursed Kerry white jersey!!! I thought they would have all be ritually burned after that horrid day.

TheHermit (Kerry) - Posts: 6354 - 14/08/2014 10:31:48    1636713

Limerick versus
v offaly 1994, wexford 2001- damian fitzhenry last min goal, v tipp 2009, v waterford 2011 last min goal -
v cork Munster football final 2009 - dominated first half but couldnt put cork away lost by a point
v cork Munster football semi final 2008 - cork got two late goals to win it
v kildare football qualifier 2012 - kildare drew it with injury time point

Worst as a limerick man - offaly 1994
worst as a neutral - louth v meath 2010

janesboro (Limerick) - Posts: 1502 - 14/08/2014 10:46:49    1636719

aidan64
County: Kerry

Ye beat us handy in the 2009 Semi-Final

chriscart580 (Meath) - Posts: 376 - 14/08/2014 10:55:04    1636725

2001 was a shock alright but not as much of a shock as 2003.
probably the most disappoint one for me was 2008 where to me this was a Tyrone team gone past their peak as a team but had some outstanding individuals. We went into the game in shock and fear why Kerry wing forwards Sheehan and Brosnan would be the ones marking Davy Harte and Philip Jordan Tyrone's strongest line.
Tyrone's half back line destroyed us that day

woops (Kerry) - Posts: 2073 - 14/08/2014 10:56:40    1636728

You are looking well for it junior sub:-)

hurlingdub (Dublin) - Posts: 6978 - 14/08/2014 10:57:40    1636729

This year against Dublin was very bad,but a few years ago think it was 2008 against Limerick was much worse! We lost by 9 points,but were 20 points down at one stage.We beat Limerick the following year at least though..

ziggy320001 (Meath) - Posts: 2432 - 14/08/2014 11:00:03    1636730

The Hermit

Little did people know how Meath would struggle for the next decade or so after that win against Kerry! I was on holiday at the time and couldn't even see the game,a Dub told me Meath won by 15 points,I honestly thaught he was taking the mickey..

ziggy320001 (Meath) - Posts: 2432 - 14/08/2014 11:04:18    1636733

Beaten by 12 points against Laois in 2005 and then by Westmeath in a swamp in Port Laoise the following year by a few. The light never seemed so far away for me!

In big ball it has to be Kerry in 2009. Humiliated from the first minute to the last that day.

MesAmis (Dublin) - Posts: 13718 - 14/08/2014 11:19:50    1636739

Yerra Ziggy it was probably the worst thing to happen to Meath too. Sure ye went into the final cock-sure you were champions in waiting after that display, only to flop a la Kerry in the final. Some witch or sorcerer down here must have cursed ye after the Kerry game because its been a hard decade for Meath football since then.

TheHermit (Kerry) - Posts: 6354 - 14/08/2014 11:25:31    1636741

1977 in Aughrim for Dub hurlers was worst day ever. Beaten by Kildare 3 - 9 to 0 - 9. All their goals came in first ten minutes. We had beaten Galway and Wexford and drawn with Cats in league and just missed league semi final. Disaster would not quite describe it!

Mind you. Kildare had handy team then. Tommy Carew and Dunny. Great players.

hurlingdub (Dublin) - Posts: 6978 - 14/08/2014 11:27:09    1636742

The Armagh defeat in 2004 was sickening. We'd beaten the All-Ireland champions Tyrone with 14 men earlier in the competition and felt we could give Armagh a game. They trounced us completely. It was the way they just casually bullied us aswell that made it so galling.

Lockjaw (Donegal) - Posts: 9155 - 14/08/2014 12:36:17    1636786

hurlingdub
County: Dublin
Posts: 6429

I think that Kildare team ran a very good Wexford team close one of the years Wexford got to the final as well. It's a shame Kildare didn't progress further in the senior championship in later years.

My two worst football (for my 2 counties) would be the 1978 football final and 1979 Monaghan v Kerry semi-final. (Kerry haunted my youth).

rcarragh (Dublin) - Posts: 305 - 14/08/2014 12:42:21    1636789

It's hard to choose between the Cork defeat in the All-Ireland semi-final in 1993, or the defeats to Kerry in 2004 and 2006. The latter were probably more painful for me, as I was too young to appreciate 1993, whereas I was at the two Kerry finals.

My club have lost a couple of All-Ireland senior club finals without landing the big one, but I'd say the most painful defeat was still a loss in a relegation playoff back in 2001, which meant that they went down to Intermediate for the first and only time. It took five years for them to get back up. Winning the county title for the first time in 20 years this year more than made up for it, though.

Gleebo (Mayo) - Posts: 2208 - 14/08/2014 12:58:32    1636797

where do we start?

Louth 91 (after reaching div1 final, mickos first year)
Meath 97 (3 games)
Galway 98 final
Wicklow 2008 (mCgeeneys 1st year)
Down 2010 semi final
Donegal 2011 qfinal
Dublin any number of times

NorthKildare (Kildare) - Posts: 197 - 14/08/2014 13:02:54    1636803

Most heart-breaking I think was the Meath one in 1991, felt so utterly helpless and desolate. Pick-pocketed at the death of 4 bloody matches.

First (and last) time I cried at a sporting occasion was the '84 final vs Kerry, though Kerry were always ahead there was such a groundswell of palpable momentum with the Dubs and we pulled it back to touching distance. But that great Kerry team knew how to snuff out most fires and they snuffed out the Dubs that day. You need to lose those though to truly appreciate winning. By the following year I was a battle-hardened 12 year old, just in time for the lean years. But '91 was a new horror.

Gavvygavgav (Dublin) - Posts: 383 - 14/08/2014 13:13:03    1636813

I have to say the most disappointing defeat was last Sunday Killkenny v Limerick. Fantastic match for the conditions. A week on an still so disappointed but so proud to be a Limerick supporter.

Limerickgaa2014 (Limerick) - Posts: 25 - 14/08/2014 13:38:41    1636819

'03 against Tyrone. Christ i've never witnessed a worse performance in my life.

If there are any Armagh men out there which one is worse? '04 or '05? I would have thought 2004 because as far as I could see Armagh were the best side in the country. But 2005 has had to be painful as well. That late free from Canavan in a semi final.

gotmilk (Fermanagh) - Posts: 4971 - 14/08/2014 14:26:59    1636845

Monaghan 2013.
After that the AI Semi Final v Armagh in 03.

squareball_1988 (Donegal) - Posts: 343 - 14/08/2014 14:27:21    1636847