45 PLAYERS HAVE made the long list of the Bord Gáis Energy U21 Hurling Team of the Year with All-Ireland champions Waterford accounting for nearly one-third.
All told, 12 Deise players are nominated with a clean sweep of the Player of the Year award where defender Austin Gleeson is joined by forwards Patrick Curran and Stephen Bennett on the three-man shortlist.
Just two players who were named on the 2015 Team of the Year are again in contention to be honoured.
Limerick’s Richie English who was named at full-back last year could retain his position. Galway’s Brian Molloy, who won an award last year at corner-forward, is nominated for the half-forward berth.
The full judging panel for the awards includes Ger Cunningham; TG4’s Micheál Ó Domhnaill; Galway star, Joe Canning and Waterford great Ken McGrath with the winners announced at a ceremony in Dublin’s Mansion House on Saturday, 8 October.
Full Shortlist for Bord Gáis Energy Team of the Year
Goalkeepers:
Jordan Henley (Waterford)
Brian Hogan (Tipperary)
Jonathan Treacy (Dublin)
Right Corner Back:
James Madden (Dublin)
William Hahassy (Waterford)
Simon Donoghue (Wexford)
Full Back:
Richie English (Limerick)
Conor Gleeson (Waterford)
Eoghan O’Donnell (Dublin)
Left Corner Back:
Tom Fox (Tipperary)
Paddy Delaney (Offaly)
Darragh Lyons (Waterford)
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Right Half Back:
Cian MacGabhann (Dublin)
Michael Harney (Waterford)
Ben Connelly (Offaly)
Centre Back:
Austin Gleeson (Waterford)
Ronan Maher (Tipperary)
Liam Varley (Westmeath)>
Left Half Back:
Shane Barrett (Dublin)
Ben O’Gorman (Clare)
Seán Loftus (Galway)
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Midfield:
Jake Malone (Dublin)
Shane Bennett (Waterford)
Darragh O’Donovan (Limerick)
Ronan Lynch (Limerick), Dan Nevin (Galway), Colm Roche (Waterford)
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Right Half Forward:
Seán Treacy (Dublin)
Michael Kearney (Waterford)
Pa O’Callaghan (Cork)
Centre Forward:
Brian Molloy (Galway)
Andrew Coffey (Tipperary)
Tom Devine (Waterford)
Left Half Forward:
Niall Mitchell (Westmeath)
Shane Gleeson (Clare)
Seán Linnane (Galway)
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Right Corner Forward:
Patrick Curran (Waterford)
AJ Murphy (Dublin)
Eanna Burke (Galway)
Full Forward:
Stephen Bennett (Waterford)
Stephen Quirke (Tipperary)
Ciaran Doyle (Westmeath)
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Left Corner Forward:
Chris Bennett (Dublin)
Emmet Nolan (Offaly)
Saul McCaughan (Antrim)
Diageo not give them a dig out.
Oh, that’s right they are as Irish as Michael flately, beejaysus.
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When people wonder why there are so few players produced in Ireland, this is why.
@Mogh Roith: can you elaborate?
I am from D12, one of soccers heartlands in Dublin, but in 2022.. no sport or club will survive with out a under age set up …James Gate never had this in my day …
@Exiled Dub: agreed. You need a feeder of some sort..expecting to pick off the best players once they move on from underage is not a viable strategy
Should serve as a warning to a few once big sides. If they don’t partner up with a schoolboy section they risk going defunct in a few short years. There are a few LSL sides that have a great history but are on their last legs.
And partnerships have to work both ways so they need to be bringing something to the table.
There are too many clubs in city’s and the country in general , if a guy can’t get a game with a club he will leave , he is not prepared to fight for his place anymore , this is just one problem . Also the standard of schoolboy player coming through is not of a standard to push for a place in a decent side , and if they are ? Then the academy’s will snap them up and promise them Loi football . These are only two problems outside of the obvious ones , which I won’t go into here .