If You could change the result of.......

martyeds

Apologies if this has already been done (got the idea from another thread)
If you could change the result of one GAA game which would it be and why....

Mine would be Ulster Final 1993. Desperate conditions in Clones when we lost to Derry. I felt we could have retained All Ireland that year, instead of Derry winning their first one.

SureYWouldntYa

That under 14 final when i tried to let the ball roll behind the goals for a wide but it went into the goals...... Oh ya we were 2 points up and it was the last minute.......

Fireball07

Not a bad question...Limerick have suffered untold number of heartbreaking defeats...

I was thinking of the loss to Wexford in the hurling quarter-final in 2001 but actually the Munster football final in 2004. We were better than Kerry that day, but they denied us at the death. To win a Munster would have been huge for that team.

KevIRL

Waterford v Kilkenny All Ireland semi final 1998. Firmly believe had we won this we would have gone on and beaten Offaly in the final. It was our worst performance all season yet KK still only beat us by a point.

With the burden of history off our back ,the great Waterford team of the early 2000's would have gone on to win at least 2 more AI's then I believe

GAAman

Dublin v tyrone 1995, would change it to 1-15 to 0-12 to us. That way I wouldn't have had to listen to years of "Ye only won cos Charlie Redmond cheated!!" and also giving out that Canavan didn't pick it up off the ground

Clareman

Munster Final in 98, any other result rather than a draw would have led to far different futures for both teams imvho

lilywhites28

1998 all Ireland final score 1-10 to kildare 1-14 to Galway the heart still has to be healed over it. Also the kildare v Down match 2010 and Benny Coulters "square ball" so close to another all Ireland apperance under mcGeeney. What could have been if we met cork in 2010. Donegal 2011 and tomas o connor goal disallowed. Really believe if it had been allowed Donegal would not of been able to crawl back the lead kildare would have had. The extra time killed us. Heartbreaken defeats in recent years hope its all used as motivation come sunday afternoon.

mccarthy37

I wish Eoin McGrath caught that ball last Sunday in the quarter final and buried it in the net that would have changed the result for us and would have changed the mood down here also.

Frankie Lee

The second drawn game against Meath in 97, one of the greatest games of all time but had we beat Meath that day or the first game then it could well have been our year. Fecking Jody Devine.

bruschi

Kinda torn on it. Will cheat and take one on each team!

The 91 Leinster final where DJ ran 59 steps with the ball and kicked it in to beat us in the last minute. That was the catalyst for a number of years of just missing out on a title until 1996. Had we won in 91, I do believe the following years would have been far more fruitful, rather than an end of an era team for a lot of guys only winning in 96.

And in football, either of the last 3 games against Dublin. A draw and extra time loss in 2010, a goal defeat last year in the final with an own goal being pivotal to Dublins comeback, and this year a 4 point loss when the game was once again there for the taking.

Torn between Tipp v Clare in the 1997 All ireland final or Tipp v Kilkenny in the 2009 All Ireland final.

padd b1975

1996 Drawn match.

CATCH THE FCUKING THING!!!!!

ShamoBuc

Tommy Sugrue

Dr. Kenneth Noisewater

All Ireland QF 2001, Galway 0-14 Roscommon 1-5.

We had already beaten them in Tuam in the Connacht semi final on our way to a Connacht title that year when we beat Mayo with a last minute goal in the Hyde. Galway got a head of steam up in the qualifiers beating Armagh and Cork and then proceeded to duff us badly in Castlebar.

I firmly believe if we hadn't come across them in the QF we would have had a serious shout of getting to an All Ireland Final. As it happened, Galway beat Derry in the semi and then hammered Meath in the final.

Syferus

1998 ranckles me ever more, losing to Galway in the Connacht final replay after extra-time at the Hyde. If not for a late mistake by Derek Connellan that led to a Michael Donnellen goal we had as much a shot as Galway did of bringing Sam across the Shannon. The draw shook out with Derry in the semi and Kildare in the final and both would have been 50-50 games at worst. Ah, what could have been.

dcr22B

The 3rd replay against Meath in 1991!

marco_polo

Limerick vs Clare 1996, we blew a three point lead in the last few minutes, could have possibly done a three in a row.

Still was nice to see Wexford win it after so long (Would have been equally pleased had what was a fantastic Limerick team won it either).

JFlah

1982 AI Football final for obvious reasons if you are from Kerry , it was and still is and always will be a free out ref!! #Robbed

shiibata

1983, All Ireland semi against Galway, that flukey goal beat us and the usual few dodgy ref decisions:p.... First tears shed at Croker as well when we got beat.

yabadabado

For me it has to be the 1980 All Ireland final.Roscommon had finally got to the final after losing 3 semi's in a row but it wasnt to be.
Honourable mention to the '91 semi final vs Meath should have beat them that day.

yabadabado

Syferus wrote: »

1998 ranckles me ever more, losing to Galway in the Connacht final replay after extra-time at the Hyde. If not for a late mistake by Derek Connellan that led to a Michael Donnellen goal we had as much a shot as Galway did of bringing Sam across the Shannon. The draw shook out with Derry in the semi and Kildare in the final and both would have been 50-50 games at worst. Ah, what could have been.

Derek Thompson made the mistake in extra time.Was a pity ,he had a great game up to that stage.

Syferus

yabadabado wrote: »

Derek Thompson made the mistake in extra time.Was a pity ,he had a great game up to that stage.

I was thinking I might be mixing up the names when I was writing it but I was on my phone and I couldn't easily check!

Such a pity that Galway's landmark titles were both foot-noted by could-have-been's - nevermind a Connacht title, a victory and two draws - by us.

Kojak

The 2001 All-Ireland Hurling final - Galway played very badly, let in a poor goal and only lost by 3 points.

johne30

Kojak wrote: »

The 2001 All-Ireland Hurling final - Galway played very badly, let in a poor goal and only lost by 3 points.

I couldn't care less . gaa games are daft . some great olympic sports though

Pride Fighter

johne30 wrote: »

I couldn't care less . gaa games are daft . some great olympic sports though

Why are you posting on the GAA board then?

Perhaps you should read the forum charter before posting.

johne30

johne30 wrote: »

I couldn't care less . gaa games are daft . some great olympic sports though

Gee...:rolleyes: Thanks ever so much we were waiting for you to come on to this forum and tell us what you really think of GAA sports :rolleyes:. Just because you happened to come upon this forum its not compulsory to post on it. You dont like GAA? Thats fine then go post in the olympic thread.

teednab-el

For me it's the 2003 All Ireland Hurling Final. A young Cork team that had Kilkenny on the racks but couldn't finish them after Setanta o hailpins goal. Seeing Comerfords goal and how soft it was makes me shiver. Still Kilkenny got the scores when they needed them, but Cork could have won it that day too.

2008 football semi final against Kerry, great comeback by Cork in the two games and Cork put themselves in a great position to beat Kerry in the latter stages of the game but it wasn't to be.

Joekers

2002 against Armagh or 2011 against tipp in the hurling!

johne30

Deleted User wrote: »

Gee...:rolleyes: Thanks ever so much we were waiting for you to come on to this forum and tell us what you really think of GAA sports :rolleyes:. Just because you happened to come upon this forum its not compulsory to post on it. You dont like GAA? Thats fine then go post in the olympic thread.

just curious about dellusional people . i mean hurling hardly even exists north of galway . some national sport . Some one has to tell you guys the truth . I off to olympics thread , great sports there . no fighting or attacking refs , and the games actually have rules

Pride Fighter

johne30 wrote: »

just curious about dellusional people . i mean hurling hardly even exists north of galway . some national sport . Some one has to tell you guys the truth . I off to olympics thread , great sports there . no fighting or attacking refs , and the games actually have rules

Very well, that is your choice. I'd ask if you come back here and post, you read the forum charter and post in a civil manner. Otherwise you'll be banned for 1 week.

Mod

yabadabado

johne30 wrote: »

just curious about dellusional people . i mean hurling hardly even exists north of galway . some national sport . Some one has to tell you guys the truth . I off to olympics thread , great sports there . no fighting or attacking refs , and the games actually have rules

The Olympics...... some teams trying to lose,judges and refs making the boxing matches into a complete farce.Doping and drug abuse.Corruption.the list is endless.

Fr Tod Umptious

padd b1975 wrote: »

1996 Drawn match.

CATCH THE FCUKING THING!!!!!

Exactly, for any Mayo fan that is a no brainer.

randd1

All-Ireland final 99, a bit of a reversal of the 03 final if you will.

Kilkenny were the better team for long periods and drove several bad wides which cost them, also Donal Óg made a great save from Carey (which was given wide) which surely would have won it for Kilkenny.

Great comeback by a younger, fitter Cork side all the same, couldn't complain as we didn't take our chances, and looking back on it Cork as a county probably needed that AI, but it was one Kilkenny should have won.

Apart from that, there's not too many games in my time (short enough) where I can say Kilkenny should really have won it.

blackbelt

Good thread,

Football - 2006 Semi Final against Mayo.

Hurling - 2010 qualifier against Antrim.

Crooked Jack

2003 All Ireland football final. Simply put, Tyrone did not deserve it

DoctaDee

Joekers wrote: »

2002 against Armagh or 2011 against tipp in the hurling!

Yep 2002 for me ... I've blanked 2006 out of my mind

Hammer Archer

johne30 wrote: »

just curious about dellusional people . i mean hurling hardly even exists north of galway . some national sport . Some one has to tell you guys the truth . I off to olympics thread , great sports there . no fighting or attacking refs , and the games actually have rules

So this was just a friendly kick in the face eh?

As for the topic in hand, for me it's one of two games.
First is a game we actually won in the end. The 3 game Kildare saga in 1997, while great to win in the end, pretty much lost us any chance of winning Leinster or another All Ireland thanks to injuries and suspensions for the Offaly game (thanks a lot Bannon :rolleyes:). Had we won the first day, I would have been fairly confident of winning another All Ireland. As it happened, we had the likes of Geraghty, O'Connell, Fay, O'Reilly all out for the final and had no chance against Offaly. Still, Jody Devine's a legend

The other game is the Offaly game in 2000. Coming off winning the All Ireland in 1999
we just completely underestimated Offaly in our first game and went out. Again, had we won that we probably would have had another good year. And just our luck that the qualifiers came into being the following year.

keane2097

2008 All Ireland final, we were probably marginally the better team that year but got our tactics and selection woefully wrong on final day. Would have avoided so much rubbish that we're still dealing with to this very day from certain "journalists".

Fr Tod Umptious

keane2097 wrote: »

2008 All Ireland final, we were probably marginally the better team that year but got our tactics and selection woefully wrong on final day. Would have avoided so much rubbish that we're still dealing with to this very day from certain "journalists".

And ye would have won 4 in a row too, and with a possible 5 in a row available may not have lost to Down in 2010

From a Mayo point of view another one that I would change would be the German invasion of Poland in 1939

It resulted in Mayo withdrawing from the 1939/1940 league and thus ending the streak at 6 titles in a row.

I'm sure there would be lots of other upsides to the Germans staying out of Poland too, far too many to mention for this thread

deisedude

2007 All Ireland Quarter Final v Cork. Waterford were playing their best hurling that year. I firmly believe if we had beaten Cork the first day out instead of it going to an energy sapping replay we would have beaten Limerick in that semi-final. As it turned out the games against Cork took their toll and Limerick staged an ambush when Waterford players were dead on their feet playing the third weekend in a row.

2006 All Ireland semi final v Cork was probably an even harder defeat to take. Donal Og Cusack somehow stopping Ken McGraths free from going over the bar has to be the single most crushing moment I have ever experienced watching any sport. Really didn't deserve to lose that day.

keane2097

Fr Tod Umptious wrote: »

And ye would have won 4 in a row too, and with a possible 5 in a row available may not have lost to Down in 2010

Ha, hadn't even thought of that but yes would have been a decent sweetener!

premierstone

Deleted User wrote: »

Torn between Tipp v Clare in the 1997 All ireland final or Tipp v Kilkenny in the 2009 All Ireland final.

They were the first two that came to my mind when reading the OP, in reflection I think the '97 one trumps it though, merely for the fact that we never would have had the unbelievable scenes and spectacle of 2010 if 2009 hadn't have been so painfull.

Dr. Kenneth Noisewater

Syferus wrote: »

1998 ranckles me ever more, losing to Galway in the Connacht final replay after extra-time at the Hyde. If not for a late mistake by Derek Connellan that led to a Michael Donnellen goal we had as much a shot as Galway did of bringing Sam across the Shannon. The draw shook out with Derry in the semi and Kildare in the final and both would have been 50-50 games at worst. Ah, what could have been.

I remember it well. A big shkyball that he let drop through his arms. It was an awful pity as there was nothing to choose between the 2 teams. Eddie Lohan was scoring from all angles. We should have beaten them the first day in Tuam as it was!

The_Kew_Tour

AI Football final 2009. We fell apart after excellent start.

johne30

johne30 wrote: »

just curious about dellusional people . i mean hurling hardly even exists north of galway . some national sport . Some one has to tell you guys the truth . I off to olympics thread , great sports there . no fighting or attacking refs , and the games actually have rules

Ok bye bye. Afraid to disappoint you wer'e all still gaa fans here so your little rant achieved nothing but to make you look terribly foolish.

elguapo

keane2097 wrote: »

2008 All Ireland final, we were probably marginally the better team that year but got our tactics and selection woefully wrong on final day. Would have avoided so much rubbish that we're still dealing with to this very day from certain "journalists".

1000% agree. That Tyrone team wasn't a patch on the 2005 team, but the line got so many things wrong that day it was almost untrue.

For all that, if the Tyrone keeper's foot hadn't kept out Declan's shot with 5 minutes to go we could well have been celebrating 3-in-a-row. Was heartbreaking to watch it on Hill 16. Christ, even writing this is putting me a bad mood.

Mountainlad

While we were nowhere near winning, and a far worse team, if we had beaten Kilkenny in the 2008 All-Ireland Final...well we'd have been all-ireland champions. And we'd have denied them 3 in a row. Lot of defeats for Waterford have had an 'if only' quality about them.

Padkir

Any one of the 89, 96, 97, 04 or 06 All Ireland finals! Poor Mayo! I think if they won in 96 or 97 they would have gone on to win a few more after that! Think 04 was possibly their best team but I doubt anyone was going to beat Kerry that year!

MfMan

Syferus wrote: »

1998 ranckles me ever more, losing to Galway in the Connacht final replay after extra-time at the Hyde. If not for a late mistake by Derek Connellan that led to a Michael Donnellen goal we had as much a shot as Galway did of bringing Sam across the Shannon. The draw shook out with Derry in the semi and Kildare in the final and both would have been 50-50 games at worst. Ah, what could have been.

No, ye wouldn't really. Galway scraped through that day (and in the drawn game) yes, but those games really made the team and they improved no end in Croker. Rossie's simply didn't have the attacking power or defenders like De Paor or Mannion, Derry would in all probability have beaten ye. Ditto 2001.

For Galway hurlers, I'm still getting therapy after 1990. This was to be the day when the rancour of Keady '89 was to be confined to a bad memory, when we would finally beat Cork in a final and cement our place as one of the greatest sides in the history of the game. Instead, after a bad start we hurled them off the field in the first half thanks to Joe Cooney but tactically fell apart in the second half (a great weakness of Farrell's). Officialdom didn't help; Eanna Ryan being called back for a free in when a goal looked certain, Martin Naughton's 65 that wasn't given. We've never exorcised that day IMHO, only an AI win will banish those demons.

iDave

Meath V Galway 2001. Seemed like it was ours for the taking after the Kerry result. Meath football hasnt recovered from it.

yabadabado

deccurley wrote: »

I remember it well. A big shkyball that he let drop through his arms. It was an awful pity as there was nothing to choose between the 2 teams. Eddie Lohan was scoring from all angles. We should have beaten them the first day in Tuam as it was!

In fairness to Thompson he did catch the long ball but got caught in possession when he was surrounded by 2 or 3 Galway players, dropped it and donnellan had a tap in.

Was the game in Tuam the day where Neary came on as a sub and was sent off within a minute of getting on, for throwing a dig?