GAA Hurling 2017

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   Aye, no one more deserving than Canning for finally getting that celtic cross and the individual award when he probably should have got it a few times before.

Dont think anyone will really begrudge him either.

But if these things are to continue to mean something i think ye have to play it straight and it wasnt really vintage joe all year where Barron was consistently excellent 

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AntrimMan Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Jack Charlton YBIG's resident Nordy/London Hipster Joined: 16 Oct 2007 Location: Christmas Island Status: Offline Points: 9451	Post Options Post Reply Quote AntrimMan Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 04 Nov 2017 at 12:46am
	Aye, no one more deserving than Canning for finally getting that celtic cross and the individual award when he probably should have got it a few times before. Dont think anyone will really begrudge him either. But if these things are to continue to mean something i think ye have to play it straight and it wasnt really vintage joe all year where Barron was consistently excellent
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Green Devil Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Robbie Keane Aye Kes, I've pissed me-self again Joined: 06 Oct 2010 Location: Barbados Status: Offline Points: 22173	Post Options Post Reply Quote Green Devil Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 04 Nov 2017 at 12:56am
	For sure and I've no doubt that when most genuine Hurling fans saw Joe pick up the award most will say "look he probably deserved one at some point over the last decade" but is the award not based on how a player performed in 2017 solely and not say last year or a few years back I mean has Colm Cooper not been as influential in Gaelic Football as Joe Canning has in Hurling? Yet, he never got FOTY despite being the best forward of his generation (imo) All in all I don't begrudge Canning winning a HOTY award because he should have had one before 2017, but noway should it be the 2017 award. Edited by Green Devil - 04 Nov 2017 at 12:57am
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deise316 Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Moderator Group Don't ask me about car warranty Joined: 11 Apr 2009 Location: The Déise Status: Offline Points: 10921	Post Options Post Reply Quote deise316 Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 04 Nov 2017 at 1:07am
	Yep, fully agree, but there is a history of this stuff happening and the allstars is a bit of a flawed concept anyway, politically, they do their best to get semi finalists represented, and while that is fair enough in one way, teams become unbalanced in another. Had Tipp's best player been a forward this year (say Callinan), he would have got in, Paraic Maher wouldn't have, but TDB and not a Tipp player would have got the allstar in the HB line, with a WD forward dropping out. That doesn't appear to make sense, but that is more or less what happens. Mark Coleman owes his allstar to SOK getting picked over Nash, had Nash been picked on goal, a 3rd Cork player wouldn't have made the team and it would have been a WD one (TDB) instead. Its all a bit odd, but basically if a tight call goes the way of one team in one position, they will make the call the other way in the other tight call position to balance it out. HOTY- think people felt it was just Joe's turn, good luck to him.
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grannyrule Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Ray Houghton Joined: 23 Jan 2010 Location: Parts Unknown Status: Offline Points: 4680	Post Options Post Reply Quote grannyrule Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 04 Nov 2017 at 1:17am
	Many people felt the hurler of the year was Gearóid McInerney and he wasn't even included.
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reddladd Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Jack Charlton Joined: 07 Oct 2008 Location: Virgin Islands Status: Offline Points: 6945	Post Options Post Reply Quote reddladd Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 04 Nov 2017 at 2:35am
	In fairness it was probably the championships's stand out moment of brilliance, the point against Tipp. Was sitting right in front of him when he stroked that ball over the bar and very few players if any currently could have made it look as 'easy' as Canning did. On balance Barron probably deserved it but Joe does have that X factor!
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mike74 Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Alan Kernaghan Joined: 03 Dec 2015 Status: Offline Points: 130	Post Options Post Reply Quote mike74 Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 04 Nov 2017 at 10:01am
	Joe Canning wasnt even Galway's best forward this year never mind HOTY. However as said above he was alway going to get it this year and hard to begrudge him. YHOTY a tight call. Whelan had an unreal start to the Champiobship before fading a bit and ending on a high. Coleman was quiet in his last game so on balance probably just abour a fair call. Would have given Touhy an All Star too instead of Mannion but each to their own.

deise316 Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Moderator Group Don't ask me about car warranty Joined: 11 Apr 2009 Location: The Déise Status: Offline Points: 10921	Post Options Post Reply Quote deise316 Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 06 Nov 2017 at 11:15pm
	Dotsy O'Callaghan retires from Dublin, always liked watching him on form, an old school corner forward. Gavin O'Mahony retires from Limerick. 30 years old, and it is getting rarer to see anyone over that age play intercounty these days, the above Dotsy being one of the few exceptions. Clare had a few retirees over the last few weeks as well, Brendan Bugler, Colin Ryan & Pat Donnellan. Derek McGrath is the last manager in the country to be ''ratified''.
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