Your teams biggest upsets

CrabRevolution wrote: »

Limerick '08. How did that happen? Losing in Leinster to Wexford after being 10 points up in the second half was sickening enough, but not a shock. Losing to Limerick woud have been sickening too, but to be 4-12 to 0-3 down with 5 minutes left was just unthinkable, then or now.

Even stranger is the way that wasnt a bad Meath team, from 2007 to 2010 they reached 2 AI semi finals, "won" Leinster, and were a decent match for Dublin (played them 4 times, Won once, drew once and lost the other matches by 2 and 4 points). But 2008 just stands out as a year to be forgotten.

Fr Tod Umptious wrote: »

Mayo.

Biggest upset win was probably beating Tyrone in '04.
Beating Dublin in '06 and Cork in '11 would also be up there.

Biggest upset to lose would probably be the '94 Connaught final to Leitrim or one of the recent qualifier losses to Westmeath, Fermanagh or Longford.

Bit what do people think overall was the biggest upset in football ?
To me it has to be Clare beating Kerry in '92.
Regardless of how poor Kerry were at the time they should not have lost to Clare.

Armagh's QF losses, as Ulster champions, to Fermanagh and Wexford should also be high on the list.

Dirty Dingus McGee wrote: »

Offaly beating Meath (reigning AI champions) in the Leinster Final in 1997 and in the first round of Leinster in 2000.

Both were big upsets from a neutral perspective although I wasn't hugely surprised as in my honest opinion Offaly from 1997 to 2006 were a very good team and should have won more than 1 Leinster with the players they had.We suffered an awful lot of narrow defeats in Leinster in that period.

The hurlers beating Cork in 2000 and Clare in 1998 (regardless of the controversy) as I thought we would have been annihilated in both those games.The Cork win in 2000 was the last great performance from that team.

Boom__Boom wrote: »

I would say that the loss to Meath in Kerry was a much much worse loss, especially in terms of the scoreline and when you compare the quality of the two Kerry teams. Might be slightly biased by the fact that I was at the Meath game but wasn't in attendance for the Clare game.

The scoreline in the Clare game was 2-10 to 0-12 whereas in the Meath game it was 2-14 Meath to Kerry 0-5. The Meath game was an utter hammering throughout with Kerry being 1-8 to a point down at half-time.

The 1992 team was really a team that was very unbalanced in terms of the age/experience profile - it was Jacko (his 16th year) and Ambrose Donovan's last appearance in a Kerry jersey and Seamus Moynihan's first. Maurice Fitz was around the 22/23 mark and was either the 2nd or 3rd most experienced among starters in terms of championship experience. Ambrose was crocked and only get on as a sub. A serious chunk of rest of the team was made of "fairly ordinary" by Kerry standards lads who were pretty inexperienced in terms of the championship.

By comparison the 2001 Kerry team that lost to Meath was much better balanced side in terms of age and experience. The quality of the side was far far ahead of the 1992 team in terms of the available players as footballers and the experience was far greater (without having an old age profile), given they were reigning All-Ireland champions (plus having a nice number who had been there in 1997 as well) and what the team as individuals achieved and what they would go on to achieve.

Declan O'Keeffe
Mossie Lyons
Seamus Moynihan
Mike McCarthy
Mike Hassett
Eamonn Fitzmaurice
Tom O'Sullivan
Darragh Ó'Sé
Donal Daly
Aodhán MacGearailt
Eoin Brosnan
Noel Kennelly
Mike Frank Russell
Dara Ó'Cinneide
John Crowley

Subs:
Tommy Griffin
Maurice Fitzgerald
William Kirby
John McGlynn
Declan Quill

Serious quality there. While Meath were clearly a better side than the Clare side having a serious chunk of the team from '99 it's interesting to note how little success they had afterwards, most notably in the final that followed

Overall it was just an utter nightmare of a performance from Kerry while Meath were just purring and it seemed as every Meath player was on top form and they just dismantled Kerry.

The Kerry minors had loss the semi to the Dubs by a few points in the opener and the lads watching from the sideline that day included Colm Cooper, Declan Sullivan, Donnacha Walsh, Bryan Sheehan and Kieran Donaghy. It would be interesting to ask the various participants and viewers about their memory of that day and how much it laid the basis for Kerry's success that followed and how it affected Meath afterwards in terms of the final and the following years.

Royal Legend wrote: »

I remember the 2001 semi-final well, one of my all time favourite matches that I witnessed, we were not given a chance, but there was a sense among the Meath supporters in the build up that we were going to surprise them and boy did we do that.

mickeyk wrote: »

Losing to the dubs in 2011 was more gutting for me. Partly because we left it after us and partly because we got absolutely nothing from the ref start to finish. Dubs did deserve their win but it was hard to acknowledge at the time. We lost many close finals over the years but that one stands out for me.

Fireball07 wrote: »

In football, beating Cork 0-16 to 0-6 in 2003 is probably our biggest upset. That or hammering Meath 4-12 to 4-3 in the qualifiers a few years back. It's hard for there to be an upset against us really... in recent times, we've generally beaten weaker teams and fallen to teams better than us.


In hurling, can't think of any huge upsets. Beating Waterford in the AI semi-final in 2007 was a bit of an upset but it was hardly earth-shattering. Beating Tipp in 2013 was also a bit of an upset, not many people expected it. We've generally come out on top against weaker sides even when playing badly, drawing with Offaly in the league this year was an upset alright.

homeofhurling wrote: »

don't recall limerick winning all ireland senior title of late do you.

homeofhurling wrote: »

don't recall limerick winning all ireland senior title of late do you.