Myself and the lads at work are having a big debate on who were the greatest u21 team of all time...me being from Limerick thinks 00,01,02 teams....one being from Tipp thinks 2010 team and the other being from Cork thinks their 66 or 97,98 teams.

Who in your opinion was the greatest u21 team(i think its save to say it's not any Kilkenny team) :)

mantle (Limerick) - Posts: 85 - 29/06/2012 14:05:52    1204935

Well, actually, the kilkenny team of 2003 or 2004 hammered tipp in a final, cha fitz was captain. Any team that wins an-ireland is gud, with underage hurling its hard to say who team is the greatest.

Ben (None) - Posts: 108 - 29/06/2012 14:24:24    1204966

Cork's team, they backboned senior sucess.
Ours didn't

Southsham (Limerick) - Posts: 752 - 29/06/2012 14:24:36    1204967

ya we were tryn to come up with a way of judging to see how we cud compare fairly. its very hard with underage teams.so we forget about what happend after u21 because if that were the case id have no argument. i think the majority of them limerick teams deserve the credit. 5 players won 3 all-ireland u21..thats no mean feat

mantle (Limerick) - Posts: 85 - 29/06/2012 14:29:31    1204976

Get back to work

dhorse (Laois) - Posts: 11374 - 29/06/2012 14:45:16    1205001

dhorse
our boss is away..mite aswel play

mantle (Limerick) - Posts: 85 - 29/06/2012 15:00:18    1205021

unless we all put our shouldr to the wheel, even when the boss is out, the country will never get off it's knees, Share the Burden

dhorse (Laois) - Posts: 11374 - 29/06/2012 15:14:35    1205031

spoilsport

mantle (Limerick) - Posts: 85 - 29/06/2012 15:18:26    1205033

Which one of them Limerick teams are you picking ? i would say Tipperary 2010 even though i think Clare should have beaten them in Munster but when Clare had the chances Tipp stayed in touch and never looked back after. Would any Galway team be rated as best ever since they only have 2 games to play. Thought the 2007 Galway team were very good hammering the Dubs in the final also liked the Waterford side of 1992 with Sean ' the Growler' Daly.

dubshurling7 (Dublin) - Posts: 1017 - 29/06/2012 15:32:16    1205043

Didn't Kilkenny play in 5 out of 6 all irelands between 2003 and 2008 winning four. That's a fair achievement at any level especially underage. A number of that team went on to win Senior All Irelands so that in my opinion would be deemed the greatest achievement. Saying that Galway played in 7 out of 8 finals in the late 90's early 00's and only manged one win.

Faithfull (Offaly) - Posts: 573 - 29/06/2012 16:51:29    1205109

The greatest under 21 team in my view cant be a team that won two or three titles as it is a different team from year to year, maybe other people see it different. no point saying this country were in that many all Ireland from such a time. one team in any one year is the way I would see it, for me it was the Tipp team in 2010 because im a Tipp man but other people will see it different for there own county, Clare had a super team that beat kk a few years ago. The waterford team back in 92 I think did an awful lot for hurling in Waterford. Very hard to call, I hope they never get rid of the under 21 championship, always serves up at least one cracking game every year.

therealtmo (Tipperary) - Posts: 1292 - 29/06/2012 17:14:23    1205125

The three in a row tipp team in the early 80s which beat Galway in one final and Kilkenny in the other two finals

thurlesblues (Tipperary) - Posts: 4475 - 29/06/2012 18:31:45    1205175

and the greatest minor team was the tipp team of the 50s they won 7 out of 10 All-Irelands

thurlesblues (Tipperary) - Posts: 4475 - 29/06/2012 18:33:12    1205176

I wonder will I win my bet !
Tipp to win the 4 munster finals this year
thats minor u21 senior and intermediate?
I wonder what odds Id get on the 5th minor title the football on July 8th
Tiobrad Arann abu!

thurlesblues (Tipperary) - Posts: 4475 - 29/06/2012 19:00:23    1205190

thurlesblues
County: Tipperary
Posts: 3627

1205176 and the greatest minor team was the tipp team of the 50s they won 7 out of 10 All-Irelands

Some going for 8 year olds, hardy chaps

dhorse (Laois) - Posts: 11374 - 29/06/2012 19:14:17    1205194

dhorse, you are a credit to yourself, your family and your county (not that that means much), such tripe being talked on this thread.

cmondetown (Longford) - Posts: 122 - 29/06/2012 19:57:59    1205220

How can the same minor team win 7 out of 10 All-Irelands? Oh...just realised who posted that..figures

Maroonatic (Galway) - Posts: 1069 - 29/06/2012 20:06:11    1205225

want to read real tripe check out the Meath Kildare thread having ago at each other

therealtmo (Tipperary) - Posts: 1292 - 29/06/2012 20:09:15    1205227

cmondetown
County: Longford
Posts: 96

such tripe being talked on this thread ,

welcome to the club

dhorse (Laois) - Posts: 11374 - 29/06/2012 20:49:20    1205255

I think its safe to say it could be a KK team,1999 included N Hickey,M kavanagh,R Mullaly,E Brennan,D Lyng,J Hoyne,M Comerford,and the King.How many AIs and All Stars did those players go on to win,2003/2004 teams,D Herrity,J Tyrell,JJ Delaney T Walsh,A Fogarty,M Rice,M Fennelly,J Tennyson, Cha Fitz,R Power,E Larkin,how many AIs and All Stars have they won and 4 of them won hurler of the year awards, and 3 captained senior AI winning teams and JJ was hurler of the year while still u21

mooncat (Kilkenny) - Posts: 539 - 01/07/2012 18:39:46    1206511