Replying To ExiledInWex: "[quote=Pikeman96: "Lol.
He famously played hurling <u>in</u> Kildare all right. But not <u>for</u> Kildare."</div>Remind me Pikeman96 I thought he played for Kildare?"
The story with Johnston is that he got an inter-county transfer from Cavan to Kildare all right. But the rules of the time were that before he could line out with the Kildare county footballers, he had to play in a club match there.
And as chance would have it, there were only club hurling matches coming up before the Kildare county team were due in action again.
So despite never having held a hurl in his life, he got a loan of one (and a helmet!) somewhere, togged off for a club hurling match, and came on for the last two minutes.
He probably never used hurl or helmet again after that either!"]The rule was only brought in to try and stop him playing with Kildare. But it never said what code you had to play.
I think it caused trouble for London the following year as anyone who moved to London in the new year wasn't able to play for them. Connor Cox also was still a Listowel player in his first season with Roscommon for the same reason.
Replying To Throughthemidfieldhewasstormin: "Some crazy achievements in the early years have been unfortunately forgotten to time. That's an amazing one."
One of his brothers won multiple AI Football championships with Dublin, and another won multiple AI hurling championships with Kilkenny. Some family!!!
Replying To Bon: "Apologies if I had it wrong above. Was it that he had to start a match, and so he only "played" for the first bit? I had it the other way round."
He only had to make an appearance so he started the match and was substituted at the earliest first chance possible. An absolute farce."]No apology required. We all now that it's your form to be often wrong. But we're a forgiving crowd on here!
Replying To ExiledInWex: "[quote=Pikeman96: "Lol.
He famously played hurling <u>in</u> Kildare all right. But not <u>for</u> Kildare."</div>Remind me Pikeman96 I thought he played for Kildare?"
The story with Johnston is that he got an inter-county transfer from Cavan to Kildare all right. But the rules of the time were that before he could line out with the Kildare county footballers, he had to play in a club match there.
And as chance would have it, there were only club hurling matches coming up before the Kildare county team were due in action again.
So despite never having held a hurl in his life, he got a loan of one (and a helmet!) somewhere, togged off for a club hurling match, and came on for the last two minutes.
He probably never used hurl or helmet again after that either!"]It was an absolute farce and he never should have transferred but how do you know he never held a hurl in his life? By all accounts he's a very talented all-round sportsman. No need to embellish the story with hurling snobbery