Billy_The_Kid
County: Limerick
Posts: 54

743866
Just to confirm, Ollie Moran is 6ft 2. May I suggest Andrew O'Shaughnessy as his replacement? I'm sure you have seen him play.

Bill , just to confirm, twas Ollie O'Connor I was thinking of not Ollie Moran. slayer's already tippexed over this one for me. Thanks

Maroonatic (Galway) - Posts: 1069 - 12/08/2010 11:39:30    743967

Tom Flynn (Galway)
A very small player but excellent point-scorer. He is so small that he rarely gets noticed nor do his points. His manager doesn't realise that he is on the pitch and most of his team-mates fail to spot him.

Oggy (Galway) - Posts: 245 - 12/08/2010 12:13:46    744010

My bad, I didn't read all the replies. I should have copped a mistake when you had him down as a corner forward haha!!

Billy_The_Kid (Limerick) - Posts: 63 - 12/08/2010 12:18:02    744019

11/08/2010 15:17:23
hurlingdub
County: Dublin
Posts: 2171

743269 That boy Coughlan from Offaly. And I'd make a case for one of our own - Joey Towell who played for Dubs in late 70s and early 80s.

He was a little diamond Joey Towell. Tough as nails, stick his head down, drive straight for goals with lads knocking lumps out of him and he loving it.

That Dublin team of the 70s should have done over KK a few times but left in on the pitch

witnof (Dublin) - Posts: 1604 - 12/08/2010 13:27:06    744141

Good team there maroonatic but a good big one will always beat a good small one! Hows this for a team of giants to take on your small lads,
1.Niall Patterson(Antrim)
2.Niall McInerney (Galway)3.Pat Hartigan (limerick)4.Dick O Hara (KK)
5.Pete Finnerty(Galway)6.Ger Henderson (KK) 7.Sean Foley(Limerick)

8.Frank Cummins (KK) 9.John Connolly (G)
10.Frank Burke (G) Declan Ryan (TIpp) 12.Eamonn Cregan (Limerick)
13.Tomas Mulcahy (cork) Joe McKenna (Limerick) Ray Cummins (Cork)

Barnowl94 (Galway) - Posts: 3150 - 12/08/2010 13:29:17    744148

Good team there maroonatic but a good big one will always beat a good small one! Hows this for a team of giants to take on your small lads,
1.Niall Patterson(Antrim)
2.Niall McInerney (Galway)3.Pat Hartigan (limerick)4.Dick O Hara (KK)
5.Pete Finnerty(Galway)6.Ger Henderson (KK) 7.Sean Foley(Limerick)

8.Frank Cummins (KK) 9.John Connolly (G)
10.Frank Burke (G) Declan Ryan (TIpp) 12.Eamonn Cregan (Limerick)
13.Tomas Mulcahy (cork) Joe McKenna (Limerick) Ray Cummins

who is Niall Patterson??

thurlesblues (Tipperary) - Posts: 4475 - 12/08/2010 13:38:05    744166

Barnowl94

you sound like a man who likes physical hurling :-)

anyone who saw Cregan hurl will know how good a player he was. Physicality & skill combined into one deadly player. A great forward, yet a great centre back in the 73 final when covering for injury. In 1983 he was still our best forward and turned the game after coming on in the replay against Cork, sadly we lost 1-14 to 1-12.

slayer (Limerick) - Posts: 6483 - 12/08/2010 13:41:27    744171

Liam Dunne

bad.monkey (USA) - Posts: 4653 - 12/08/2010 13:43:25    744178

Liam Dunne

I risk the ire of Wexford fans now, but I never rated Dunne much at all. He was well behind other players on that 96 Wexford team like George O'Connor, Larry Murphy, Larry O'Gorman, Storey & Dempsey. Dunne was well able to use the hurley to good & bad effect, but I always felt that a player like George O'Connor for example could play the game to its limits in terms of physicality, but not cross the line.

slayer (Limerick) - Posts: 6483 - 12/08/2010 13:47:13    744183

Titchy O'Connor

now he could hurl and size meant nothing to him

ochonlir (Cavan) - Posts: 4343 - 12/08/2010 13:54:31    744196

Barnowl94, I wouldn't like to have to keep your team in half time sangwiches. Dream midfield combo there btw. JC was a god to me and Frank Cummins possibly the most stylish hurler I've ever seen play

Maroonatic (Galway) - Posts: 1069 - 12/08/2010 13:57:44    744202

Rory McCarthy - Wexford. Good little player and Ill never forget that goal in the semi final against Cork I think it was. Absolute screamer of a goal and not to mention in one of the best matches of the last decade.

ConnollyDub (Dublin) - Posts: 2007 - 12/08/2010 14:01:45    744216

JC was a god to me

Have the 1988 final on video somewhere & he was in the studio for it and he cried at the end. Connolly was certainly a Galway great.

slayer (Limerick) - Posts: 6483 - 12/08/2010 14:03:51    744221

That was his brother Joe slayer. Big John wouldn't cry :)

Maroonatic (Galway) - Posts: 1069 - 12/08/2010 14:07:17    744226

Chunky O'Brien and Frank Cummins were the best midfield duo I have ever seen. Chunky was so ahead of his time. Diagonal balls in space. A sublime hurler. And Frank. Jesus he'd kill small hurlers for breakfast and have then with his porridge.

On the ginats team, I think I'd have to put big Christy Heffernan in full forward.

Dick O'Hara frightened me. What a legend. That KK team of the 1970s...... Fan, Joe Hennessy, Chunky all from my own club.....Noel on goal.....Billy Fitz...I can remember the 1979 team as if it was yesterday. The 75 team I struggle with.

Puddersthecat (Kilkenny) - Posts: 1692 - 12/08/2010 14:16:40    744254

don't know if it was true maybe limerick lads can confirm it but i heard mick mackey was only around 5ft 8? i heard it on that pride opf the parish episode that was filmed in ahane

moddy91 (Tipperary) - Posts: 226 - 12/08/2010 14:19:32    744260

witnof
County: Dublin
Posts: 79



He was a little diamond Joey Towell. Tough as nails, stick his head down, drive straight for goals with lads knocking lumps out of him and he loving it.

That Dublin team of the 70s should have done over KK a few times but left in on the pitch


Yes to both those statements witnof! Joey was my hero as a kid - him and Tony Doran. Similar styles except whereas Doran had about 17 stone to carry him forward, Joey was a little tough lad who as you say took huge punishment but scored a sackful of goals. Won matches for Dublin in those days. They could certainly have beaten the Cats in I think it was 1976? Were about 12/13 points down at half time and staged huge comeback to get beaten by a point. Had some great hurlers at the time. The Henneberrys, Matt Allen, Murphy from Crumlin, PJ, Vinnie and Mick (RIP) Holden, Harry Dalton, the Rheinischs, Peadar Carton, father of Mikey and young Peadar. And to think that they could have had Hanahoe, Doherty, O'Driscoll and a couple other of the footballers there as well had things not worked out differently!

hurlingdub (Dublin) - Posts: 6978 - 12/08/2010 14:23:56    744268

icehonesty - Liam Dunne was on the team but got sent off for a dirty pull!

KKid (Kilkenny) - Posts: 421 - 12/08/2010 17:05:39    744565

who is Niall Patterson??

pop down the road to Moycarkey Borris and ask them about him, they beat them on the way to the club all-ireland in 1983 which he was captain of the team, would Moycarkey have played against ye on the way to the mid title that year.... as if you were a county minor then you should have been on the thurles sarsfields first team??

Hag_and_Cheese (Tipperary) - Posts: 6103 - 12/08/2010 19:08:23    744721

moddy91
County: Tipperary
Posts: 60

744260
don't know if it was true maybe limerick lads can confirm it but i heard mick mackey was only around 5ft 8? i heard it on that pride opf the parish episode that was filmed in ahane

I do believe thats true. Incidentally, that episode of pride in the parish is on this sunday I think.

Billy_The_Kid (Limerick) - Posts: 63 - 12/08/2010 19:34:47    744744