Biggest Defeat in GAA history?

vincenzolorenzo

After hearing about Laois being destroyed by Cork (by 34 points) in the hurling at the weekend it got me thinking: what is the biggest winning margin in GAA history, in football and hurling?

And surely putting 10 goals past a team must be some kind of record too?

vincenzolorenzo

vincenzolorenzo wrote: »

After hearing about Laois being destroyed by Cork (by 34 points) in the hurling at the weekend it got me thinking: what is the biggest winning margin in GAA history, in football and hurling?

And surely putting 10 goals past a team must be some kind of record too?

Wexford scored 12 goals against Antrim in an All Ireland semi final in the 1950's but 10 is a pretty high tally in all fairness.

I think the amount of goals makes the margin look wider then it is and that the 34 point margin has been beaten or at least equalled on a few occasions with far lesser goals scored by the winning team.

Hammer Archer

Think antrim beat roscommon in the Christy Ring Cup a few years ago by a cricket score and I'm fairly sure there was a similar thread created here after it.
Edit: The score was 9-39 to 0-05, a 61 point winning margin in 2006.

I remember our minor footballers beat Kilkenny by something like 6-26 to 0-0 not too long ago.

SeaFields

I posed the question in the qualifier thread too. The examiner yesterday had an inset on the topic (based on goals rather than margin of defeat)...

2011 Cork 10-20, Laois 1-13
1966 Offaly 10-9, Westmeath 2-6
1960 Tipp 10-9, Limerick 2-1
1954 Wexford 12-17, Antrim 2-4
1953 Clare 10-8, Limerick 1-1
1945 Dubs 10-7, Wicklow 7-5
1939 Dubs 10-7, Wexford 2-2
1939 Laois 12-7, Meath 4-2
1933 Cork 10-3, Kerry 4-6

Four of the last ten instances of ten goals being scored have occurred on the 18th June - Beware :eek:

TopOfTheRight

Our junior b's won by 41 points earlier this year with a wing back kicking 12 points, surely a first!

Psychedelic

Not intercounty level, but this is a massive margin from a senior club championship match in Waterford in 1949:

Mount Sion 22-12
Erins Own 0-0

dartbhoy

Cork put 13 goals past Waterford in a Munster hurling semi final in 1923. As far as I'm aware this is the record for the most goals scored by a team in a senior hurling championship match.

Mountainlad

Psychedelic wrote: »

Not intercounty level, but this is a massive margin from a senior club championship match in Waterford in 1949:

Mount Sion 22-12
Erins Own 0-0

:eek: In 1949? Imagine what they'd do to em now with faster sliotars and better pitches, beter hurleys etc!

rpurfield

it happens in every county at underage level at least once a year!!i remember reffing an u14 game where one team gave the other an awful hammering.i was trying to give them a chance to get a few scores with handy free but they easily lost by 40 points.one young lad says to me after the game in all seriousness "jaysus ref ya gave us nothing!"

legendary.xix

It was a bad defeat. I think Laois should drop to the Christy Ring level and only select players 100% committed to their county's cause.

Fbjm

I know that one year (about half a century before I was born so don't ask me for the date) Dublin scored 10 goals and still lost.

Hammer Archer

legendary.xix wrote: »

It was a bad defeat. I think Laois should drop to the Christy Ring level and only select players 100% committed to their county's cause.

Bit harsh. Laois ran Limerick to within 3 points not 2 years ago. Also they only lost to Antrim by 3 points this year and I would rate them higher than both Westmeath and Carlow. It was just one of those freak results in hurling that happen from time to time (bear in mind that Laois were 'only' 7 points down at half time).

legendary.xix

Hammer Archer wrote: »

Bit harsh. Laois ran Limerick to within 3 points not 2 years ago. Also they only lost to Antrim by 3 points this year and I would rate them higher than both Westmeath and Carlow. It was just one of those freak results in hurling that happen from time to time (bear in mind that Laois were 'only' 7 points down at half time).

I'm looking more in terms of the lack of commitment from certain players. I think they should only pick they guys 100% committed to the cause. If that affects things that they drop a level, so be it. It's the guys giving 100% commitment in the longterm that will have the game on a good footing.