ALL-IRELAND CHAMPIONS Tipperary have taken seven places on The Sunday Game’s Hurling Team of the Year, with runners-up Kilkenny filling four spots.
And Seamus Callanan was named as the panel’s Hurler of the Year with four of the seven panellists opting for today’s man of the match as the outstanding performer over the course of the season.
Here are the selections in full. What do you think?
The Sunday Game’s Hurling Team of the Year
1. Eoin Murphy (Kilkenny)
2. Cathal Barrett (Tipperary)
3. James Barry (Tipperary)
4. Daithí Burke (Galway)
5. Padraig Walsh (Kilkenny)
6. Ronan Maher (Tipperary)
7. Padraic Maher (Tipperary)
8. Jamie Barron (Waterford)
9. David Burke (Galway)
10. Walter Walsh (Kilkenny)
11. Austin Gleeson (Waterford)
12. Patrick ‘Bonner’ Maher (Tipperary)
13. Richie Hogan (Kilkenny)
14. Seamus Callanan (Tipperary)
15. John McGrath (Tipperary)
Hurler of the Year
Henry Shefflin: Padraic Maher
Michael Duignan: John McGrath
Liam Sheedy: Seamus Callanan
Ger Loughnane: Padraic Maher
Eddie Brennan: Seamus Callanan
Brendan Cummins: Seamus Callanan
Cyril Farrell: Seamus Callanan
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Don’t know what he can be aggrieved about he elbowed toner straight in the face red card all day long fair play to the linesman cause the ref was initially going for the yellow card
@Ed Walsh: Will ya stop …barely deserved a yellow never mind a red .Embarrassing play acting from Toner .Ref initially was going for his shirt pocket for a yellow and it was the Pats fans screaming on the grass hill that made him witch to the back pocket.
There was only one really bad tackle all night ,on McCormack ,and the ref shit himself and barely produced a yellow .The diving was disgraceful too and the ref ,who’d lost the plot and control ,ignored it until the 93rd minute
@gavexile: OK
@gavexile: 100 per cent
@gavexile: Are you nuts, elbow to the face, deserved red.
He deserved to get the red card and should be banned for more than 1 game, it was an elbow to the face, really bad challenge.
Graham Cummins should be banned for a lot longer. There was no need for what he done.
What a great start for cork , st pats won’t be the push aside team they were last year !
@Tricksy: pat’s are a gutsy side, worried us ,very strong in corners/attack,or else our defence were well below par