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Loads of players drift from minior/u21 teams. HughHunt24 (Cork) - Posts: 841 - 28/04/2015 11:40:54 1718389 Link 0 |
Living in Laois I can tell you , BigJohn.6_8 (Galway) - Posts: 704 - 28/04/2015 16:04:16 1718569 Link 0 |
Beano was a cracking player. like his first cousins Donie Brennan and donie Kingston, all played senior and minor championship for Laois in the same year. Chris Bergin was another lad that dissapeared off the radar HughHunt24 (Cork) - Posts: 841 - 29/04/2015 13:16:03 1718895 Link 0 |
Id say a lot of lads move overseas, get married/kids or find jobs which all have impacts on playing time DoireCityFC (Derry) - Posts: 1580 - 29/04/2015 13:23:27 1718904 Link 0 |
Decky Mc Croussan had to go work in England at the time, was a fantastic player. Raimy Mulgrew found it difficult to break on to the tyrone team and hold a position. He went to OZ for afew years and is back now playing club football in Tyrone redhanddefender (Tyrone) - Posts: 913 - 29/04/2015 13:50:18 1718913 Link 0 |
The commitment level at senior is just on a different level to that of underage - once you finish 2nd level education you are either travelling to college or work, studying, have money to spend on other interests, emigrate, marry, have kids, etc. cavanman47 (Cavan) - Posts: 5010 - 29/04/2015 14:11:05 1718928 Link 0 |
Promising young players discover beer in college and don't want to give up their entire lives to GAA (which is what is required nowadays to be competitive). tirawleybaron (Mayo) - Posts: 1105 - 29/04/2015 14:45:27 1718946 Link 0 |
From Dublin alone - Liamwalkinstown (Dublin) - Posts: 8166 - 29/04/2015 15:03:04 1718954 Link 0 |
"I'm leaving on a jet plane, don't know when I'll be back again" Htaem (Meath) - Posts: 8657 - 29/04/2015 15:12:14 1718959 Link 0 |
Conrad Murphy - the prime example of player burnout....injuries, emigration and i guess no longer had the hunger. but overall played way too much too young woops (Kerry) - Posts: 2073 - 29/04/2015 15:23:44 1718965 Link 0 |
Woops - Did Philip Clifford suffer from Malnurishment? xxx (Mayo) - Posts: 1275 - 29/04/2015 17:45:18 1719037 Link 0 |
woops (Kerry) - Posts: 2073 - 29/04/2015 17:49:24 1719038 Link 0 |
I dont think this thing of young players going off the radar is a big myth. joncarter (Galway) - Posts: 2692 - 29/04/2015 19:16:34 1719065 Link 0 |
A lot of lads can't make the step up to senior football after a great minor or u21, some are with clubs that are intermediate and junior level and the gulf up to senior is huge so lads just fade out, others emigrate or a serious injury means they only can play club football, it's a pity because so many counties have great minor and u21 players but miss out when senior panel is picked or chosen riverboys (Mayo) - Posts: 1389 - 29/04/2015 21:41:40 1719095 Link 0 |
Moyles career was cut short due to a serious knee injury as far as i remember. HurlerOnTheFenc (Mayo) - Posts: 282 - 30/04/2015 09:03:06 1719113 Link 0 |
I remember when we were U16/Minor, same era as Savage/Meehan/Donnellan, the star man for Galway was John Concannon, never seemed to make it when it came to senior though Rosineri1 (UK) - Posts: 2099 - 30/04/2015 09:44:45 1719118 Link 0 |
Always questioned the attitude of Mark Vaughan,was prob correct in the end.. ziggy32001 (Meath) - Posts: 8354 - 30/04/2015 09:46:11 1719120 Link 0 |
ziggy32001 MesAmis (Dublin) - Posts: 13705 - 30/04/2015 09:58:51 1719125 Link 0 |
Kerry had Paddy Curran and Barry John Walsh best minors for years but didn't have the best attitude. kerryrowz (Kerry) - Posts: 833 - 30/04/2015 11:37:35 1719159 Link 0 |
Seem to recall that Paddy Curran had two serious knee injuries and then two operations. Might still be playing good club football in Cork. Lovely forward. Gaa Fan (USA) - Posts: 749 - 30/04/2015 14:33:22 1719228 Link 0 |