Your team's greatest hammerings (handed out) and hammerings (suffered)

Fr Tod Umptious

It's a slow time of the year

I saw a thread on the soccer board a while back about hammerings that your team gave out and that they took.

So what's your GAA team equivalent

From my Mayo POV it's the following

Hammering handed out
It's a toss up between Galway in 2013 or Donegal in 2013
Galway was good because it was in Galway
But I think Donegal was better because it was some revenge for 2012, and plenty of pundits told us that 'once Donegal get to Croke Park they will up their game' and more importantly I don't think I have ever seen a Mayo team play with such intensity form the get go.

Hammering suffered
There are a few to chose from but for me I think the 1993 semi-final loss by 20pts to Cork stands out.
Whatever about losing to Kerry in 2004 and 2006, at the time Kerry were in the middle of a second Golden Years.

But 1993 was bad. At the time Mayo had won their second Connaught in a row and many would have thought they had spurned a great chance to get to a final in 1992.
After some winter turmoil they had a new manager in Jack O' Shea and things looked decent enough.
But they were annihilated in Dublin in a time when such annihilation were rare enough if I recall.
Final score was Cork 5-15, Mayo 0-10, and my God it was ugly.

iDave

Hammering handed out

Kerry 2001 AISF. Some day that was. We were confident but didn't expect that. Kerry fans walking out and singing cheerio to them. Then lost Galway in the final. Kerry went on to win a few AIs, Meath disappeared into the wilderness. Felt good at the time though

Dublin 2010 Leinster SF. We were quietly confident having played in AISFs in 07 and 09 but wow that was some result. Thought it was the end of the aforementioned wilderness. Not too be. Went back into the wilderness. Dublin went back to dominating Leinster and won a couple of AIs. Felt good at the time though.

The lesson. Getting hammered by Meath might not be a bad thing

Hammering suffered

Dublin 2014 Leinster Final. No one expected to win but in year 2 of the MOD project we had hoped to give them a scare and regroup to win Qualifier Rd 4. Got the worst of all beatings from them and effectively ended and consigned the Meath/Dublin rivalry to history. That's probably the saddest thing about it. Then a limp performance to Armagh.

Limerick 2008 Qualifier Rd 1. When a football county plays a hurling county there should only be 1 result. Even if it comes on the back of surrendering a 10 point lead to another hurling county. What an awful awful day. To put it in context we scored 4 goals in the last 10 mins and still lost by 10 points.

Tom Joad

Any excuse to post this.

blue note

Hammering handed out:

I'd have to say Clare 2004, Munster QF. We were beaten badly in the league final by Galway and lots of people were saying we were going no-where. Whereas Clare were apparently flying in training. I'll never forget how cocky the Clare lads were that day and every pundit seemed to be tipping them. Anyway, we beat them by more than double scores. They were just never even close to us.

Hammering received: 2008 AI final. No explanation necessary. The preparation was a bit suspect, but at the end of the day, Kilkenny were unreal, the team was past their prime and they just bottled it. The 2011 Munster final was comparable in terms of scoreline, but not half as bad a hammering. I'd lay the blame for that scoreline firmly on the management. Insane tactics. We mightn't have won had we played a more conventional game, but we hadn't a hope of keeping it respectable with our gameplan that day.

I think Meath vs Limerick in 2008 was possibly the funniest hammering I remember. Lots of fans were just waiting for the next game instead of travelling down to it, then they found themselves about 20 points down, having scored about 3 points with 10 minutes to go. I felt sorry for iDave after that game, but couldn't contain my laughter. He got me back that September though.

iDave

Jesus Tom a league match have you been that starved of success you need to resort to that. And we got promoted anyway!

blue note wrote: »

I think Meath vs Limerick in 2008 was possibly the funniest hammering I remember. Lots of fans were just waiting for the next game instead of travelling down to it, then they found themselves about 20 points down, having scored about 3 points with 10 minutes to go. I felt sorry for iDave after that game, but couldn't contain my laughter. He got me back that September though.

As you know you little blaa bollox I did travel down. Still Navan 09 was fun. Remember that?

Tom Joad

Two biggest hammerings we were on the end off and the lowest points for me watching Cavan were both in the AI qualifiers:

2010 - Cork 1-19; Cavan 0-4. Horrible day down in Cork - incessant rain and lowest point as a Cavan supporter - Cork were a team of big men and Cavan had a relatively small team. We didn't score until just before half time and were absolute muck. Couple of players hid that day too which didn't help.

2012 - Cavan 1-9; Kildare 3-20. The game everyone was waiting for when the draw was made. A certain former Cavan player coming back to Breffni wearing the colours of the visiting team. Never witnessed an atmosphere like it before or since in Breffni Park. We were absolutely tanked and the main man scored a free down at the town end. Another low point in Cavan GAA history.

Almost remember getting tanked by Tyrone in the NFL Final and some big defeats in the league but those two stand out.

Apart from taking Meath apart in the league in Mordor (did the same to Monaghan the same year) a few years ago, the only other hammering I remember was beating Roscommon on the first weekend of the league about 6/7 years ago - missed the match but if I remember correctly Raymond Galligan filled his boots that day down in Roscommon.

Tom Joad

iDave wrote: »

Jesus Tom a league match have you been that starved of success you need to resort to that. And we got promoted anyway!

Yep gas thing is we did the same to Monaghan the same year and ye two got promoted and we were closer to getting relegated.

Iecrawfc

Limerick hurling

Hammerings handed out:
1994 Munster final vs Clare in thurles the second Munster final hammering in a row that Clare got, remember being on the terrace and seeing point after point going over from Kirby, galligan, Frankie etc. great day, that Clare team were some bunch to come back from that with loughnane and win 2 AIs

1996 first round vs cork in cork
Absolutely battered cork, their record defeat there, JBMs first day out, he must have wondered what he had taken on, very sweet though as limerick had suffered lots from cork in the 70s and 80s, remember Cyril Farrell saying beforehand if cork get a good start they could go to town on limerick, how wrong he was, again they came back and were AI champs in 99

2014 vs Wexford in Thurles
So bad felt sorry for Wexford by the end, the same Wexford that beat us in 96 and 2001, that's how bad it was

Hammerings taken;
2009 vs tipp in croke park
Absolute humiliation in front of the country in an AI semi final, start of a nightmare period for limerick hurling under Justin McCarty

1988/1989 vs tipp
Those years blend into each other but we had good teams then that played half the game but tipp would run away with it in second half

2007 AI vs Kilkenny
Didn't get hammered as such but Kilkenny were never in danger, felt like they came up blew limerick away in the first ten minutes and stayed a safe distance without being too pushed for the rest of the game

Fireball07

In hurling, the biggest hammering we received that I can remember would have to be the All-Ireland semi-final in 2009 when Tipperary annihilated us. Game over after 10 minutes...... We weren't that bad a team, it should never have been that margin. Awful tactics, awful showing by the players, ended up causing a strike, which we are only just recovered from. Clare in 2006 was pretty bad too.

Handed out... probably under John Allen in 2012 when we scored like 8 goals against Antrim. Absolutely wiped them out. Against a top county, it's probably this year vs Wexford, or Cork in 1996. I don't really remember that one though.



In football, biggest hammering dished out, bar Kilkenny in the league would be the afore-mentioned Meath qualifier. Ended up only winning by 9, but it was definitely a hammering. Ian Ryan scored 3-7, we restricted Meath to just 3 points (and 4 goals). Pity I wasn't there.

And biggest hammering received... there's been a few. Kerry hammered us twice the year we got to the quarter-final, Cork hammered us last year and in the 90s, we used to get pretty bad beatings regularly. I'd put down the quarter-final one against Kerry though, we had been competitive with them for the past 6 or 7 years and in the biggest match of all, they just outclassed us.

deadybai

KK Hurling

Hammerings given out.
The AI 08 comes to mind but my choice is this years opener versus Offaly in Nowlan Park purely because of the gulf in class between the two sides. It was like watching a Junior team versus a top class inter county side. If it were rugby it would be New Zealand versus Canada. I was surprised that Kilkenny sort of eased off in the second half. It really could have been 9 goals only for a superb Offaly goalie performance.

Hammerings taken
2012 Leinster final. That really was the most shocking things Ive watched in any sports. We were scoreless after 20 minutes and only scored 0-4 points at half time. That was just crazy. We only lost by 11 points in the end it could have been a lot more embarrassing. Galway must have been devastated after getting their own hammering in the replay final. Knowing that you have already destroyed the team who just beat you.

dirkmeister

Kilkenny


Biggest beating dished out:
Take your pick, 08 final stand out like a sore thumb. The ultimate performance.



Biggest beating received:
1995 Leinster final, lashed rain about 20 minutes before throw in. Offaly retreated to the dressing rooms while Kilkenny huddled in the dugout.

First time in Croke Park, got drowned in the lower Cusack, Kilkenny were battered and I puked on the way home....ah yes how I miss the 90s...where Kilkenny weren't up to much and trips home from Croke Park took 4 hours.

galwaylad14

As a Galway man I have absolutely no hesitation in picking the greatest hammering we've ever handed out. It was referenced already from the other side by a KK poster above. Leinster final in 2012, Galway 2-22 Kilkenny 2-11. The greatest display I have ever seen from the men in maroon. The first half was as complete a display as you'll ever see in terms of both defending and attacking. Just stunning stuff. It was almost hard to believe what was unfolding in front of us that day to be honest. Also maybe 11 points doesn't seem like a hammering but given the way the game unfolded it was an absolute annihalation. It was all over after 25 minutes and the score at half time was 2-12 to 0-4. In fairness Kilkenny did put in a strong second half to make the score reasonably respectable.

The worst hammering, I must say the 2012 replay was a heartbreaker and although Kilkenny won comfortably I wouldn't actually call it a hammering (even though their margin of victory was actually greater than ours in the Leinster Final) simply because up until Donnellan getting sent off that day we were well in the game. The last 15 minutes we were wiped out though alright.

The worst ever was in Thurles in 2011 against Waterford. Pathetic stuff. As usual against Waterford went in as favourites after having two great victories over Cork and Clare. And also as usual against Waterford we were sent back home with our tails firmly between our legs after receiving an unmerciful hammering. I can't recall the score but we were wiped out all over the field particularily in the second half. It was a display devoid of any guts or passion. A horrible day all round and one that brought the end to the John McIntyre era.

MfMan

galwaylad14 wrote: »

As a Galway man I have absolutely no hesitation in picking the greatest hammering we've ever handed out. It was referenced already from the other side by a KK poster above. Leinster final in 2012, Galway 2-22 Kilkenny 2-11. The greatest display I have ever seen from the men in maroon. The first half was as complete a display as you'll ever see in terms of both defending and attacking. Just stunning stuff. It was almost hard to believe what was unfolding in front of us that day to be honest. Also maybe 11 points doesn't seem like a hammering but given the way the game unfolded it was an absolute annihalation. It was all over after 25 minutes and the score at half time was 2-12 to 0-4. In fairness Kilkenny did put in a strong second half to make the score reasonably respectable.

The worst hammering, I must say the 2012 replay was a heartbreaker and although Kilkenny won comfortably I wouldn't actually call it a hammering (even though their margin of victory was actually greater than ours in the Leinster Final) simply because up until Donnellan getting sent off that day we were well in the game. The last 15 minutes we were wiped out though alright.

The worst ever was in Thurles in 2011 against Waterford. Pathetic stuff. As usual against Waterford went in as favourites after having two great victories over Cork and Clare. And also as usual against Waterford we were sent back home with our tails firmly between our legs after receiving an unmerciful hammering. I can't recall the score but we were wiped out all over the field particularily in the second half. It was a display devoid of any guts or passion. A horrible day all round and one that brought the end to the John McIntyre era.

You might be a bit young to remember, but 1986 v KK in Thurles was especially wonderful. Hadn't beaten them in years in the championship but a Joe Cooney-inspired performance made fools of them that day and finished a few KK careers. The '05 victory might have been a hammering too had they got another score when 10 points up (and could have finished Cody as manager to boot) but Eddie Brennan pulled back a goal almost immediately and set up a tight finish. KK got revenge though with 2 trouncings handed out in '04 and '06.

Football and Kerry and Cork (replay) handed out good beatings in '84 and '87 if memory serves, along with Mayo last year. The league defeat v Laois last March was terrible in terms of the dearth of performance. On the flip side, the second half display v Meath in '01 was top class, while another that sticks out was v Sligo in 2000. Champs in '98, Galway had lost to Mayo in '99 and their early season form wasn't great in 2000; they were thought to be vulnerable heading to Markie Park and Sligo were quietly confident. Instead, playing with a gale, Galway held them scoreless in the first half and led by 0-14 to no score at ht, eventually winning by 0-22 to 0-4 I think, a fair tanking.

Hammer Archer

Pretty much what iDave said. I'd add the two Monaghan hammerings we received in Clones two years in a row. Louth in Navan in 2012 hurt a lot. Further back, the All Ireland final hammering of 2001 really signalled the end of our great team and began our wilderness years that are still going on.

We don't generally hammer teams often, even poor teams. And as Dave said, after we do hammer a team it often leads to a devastating loss soon after.

Say Your Number

Sligo - the hammerings taken list will be a lot longer

Hammering's Given

2002: Sligo 2-13 Leitrim 2-4

2002: Sligo 1-14 Tyrone 0-12, OK I know I'm pushing it but a no hoper beating an All-Ireland contender with a bit to spare has to count as a hammering.

Suppose the only real hammerings Sligo have handed out have been to New York, but given how poor they are it doesn't really count.

Hammerings Taken

1990: Galway 6-18 Sligo 0-4

1991: Leitrim 1-16 Sligo 0-5, I'm too young to remember this game but I remember seeing the scoreline in a programme once and thought it was the grimmest looking one I'd ever seen.

1994: Mayo 2-18 Sligo 0-5

2000: Galway 0-22 Sligo 0-4, Sligo had played brilliantly to beat Mayo in previous round but they didn't show up at all this day, the HT score was 0-14 to 0-0, I was wondering were we going to score at all.

2001: Dublin 3-17 Sligo 0-12, the final score really flattered Dublin, this game was really close for the most part, after 50 minutes Dublin had a shot that hit the post Jason Sherlock collected the rebound put it in the net, a few minutes later Ciaran Whelan came charging through and finished the game as a contest with their second goal.

2005: Cork 3-13 Sligo 0-11

2010: Down 3-20 Sligo 0-10, 6 days after Sligo lost the Connacht Final they were obviously lethargic and just not up for it, but Down were brilliant, it's the best team display I've ever witnessed in the flesh and it'll take a lot to beat it.

2012: Kildare 0-13 Sligo 0-4, Kildare were kind to us that day, they could have put up a massive score, but they were very wasteful.

Clareman

Clare.

Football has to be the Miltown massacre, I don't know if any other county could top it, it was something like 9-22 to 8 points. We don't hand out many beatings.

Hurling, received I guess it would be a toss up between the 93 and 94 Munster Finals. Handed out would have to be the '98 Munster Final Replay against Waterford.

Smartguy

Kerry

Received

Has to be Meath 01, nothing else comes close

Handed out
Plenty to choose from here thankfully. The sweetest one's being dublin in 09 and cork 02

zetecescort

Cork

Don't have to back too far for hammerings received, Kerry running us off our own pitch in this years Munster final, Tipp doing similar in Croke Park in hurling

Beating Tipp in 2009 stands out to me in hurling 3-15 to 0-14. Beat Donegal 1-27 to 2-10 in 2009 in football

blue note

Clareman wrote: »

Handed out would have to be the '98 Munster Final Replay against Waterford.

I don't think the OP was talking about that type of beating!

Hidalgo

Hammerings taken for Clare

93 Munster final v Tipp. Lost by 18 pts to Tipp. My 1st Munster final and remember Tipp fans leaving with 10-15 mins remaining to beat the traffic. It was no mote than a challenge match.
12 months later and lost to Limerick by only 10.
2004 v Waterford. Something like a 3 21 to 1 08 loss in Anthony Daly's first game in charge.

The bad losses stay in the mind moreso but beat a very disspirited Limerick in the qualifiers in Ennis in 06.

Clareman

blue note wrote: »

I don't think the OP was talking about that type of beating!

It was a complete beating that day, terrible conditions but Clare won by double scores. And all the physical stuff was over after 5 minutes and I'd say Waterford have as good as they got on that side of things

Frankie Lee

Most sickening hammering would have to be Laois in 2005. 0-21 points to 0-09, 2 years after a competitive Leinster final defeat to them Kildare hit an incredible low point that.

With that in mind the sweetest hammering was beating them in 2009 2-18 to 0-09 and was a high point of McGeeney's reign.

The 1997 beating of Laois with 13 men warrants an honourable mention.

Recent hammerings from Dublin don't hurt as bad as they are to be expected with the gap in resources.

randd1

Kilkenny.

Best hammering dished out. An easy that one, the AISF against Tipperary in 2012. An 18 point victory after being a point down at half time (even though we were the better side in the first half). It was the greatest display of hurling I've ever seen in one half of hurling. What made it all the more impressive was that it was Tipp that got the hammering, as they were the second best side in the country (and still are) and weren't going bad until the second half, not a poor Offaly or Dublin playing well below par. A top Tipp side were just absolutely blown off the field.

Worst hammering received? 2011 League final, easily our worst performance in a long time. Beaten in every way possible, and unusually we totally lost our all our discipline and our heads completely. Hopeless in the tackles, no intensity, poor stickwork and were blown out of it physically, Dublin totally ripped us asunder. Dublin doing the damage also added a novelty to the beating as well.

klairondavis

Kildare:

Worst I can remember was the 1983 Leinster semi final against Offaly in Navan. They were the reigning All Ireland champions and they beat us without breaking sweat that evening.

The sweetest one we gave out was probably ten years later in another Leinster semi final against the same opposition in Portlaoise which ended 2-14 to 0-9. It was the high point of Micko's first stint in Kildare.

zombieHanalei

Fireball07 wrote: »

In hurling, the biggest hammering we received that I can remember would have to be the All-Ireland semi-final in 2009 when Tipperary annihilated us. Game over after 10 minutes...... We weren't that bad a team, it should never have been that margin. Awful tactics, awful showing by the players, ended up causing a strike, which we are only just recovered from. Clare in 2006 was pretty bad too.

The Tipperary one was much much worse, although nobody was expecting us to defeat them there was no predicting the magnitude of that defeat. I remember getting quite angry and animated during the Clare game in Ennis but I spent the Tipp game in a state of shock, I just couldn't believe we could put in a performance like that in an All-Ireland semi final.

Little known fact; one player was asked at half time to tog out and get ready for the second half; his response was basically "I'm not f.....g going out to play in that"

thinkstoomuch1

Some close calls here

Cork hurling
Biggest hammering we suffered imo was the 2006 all the irelands final
Score line was only three points difference but in truth cork were dominated from start to finish by kilkenny and never came close truth to winning
Cork were hammered in almost every aera of the field imo

For such great team with great players imo that were expected to win it was biggest dissaster as glorious chance missed three in row missed and cork may never be that position again
Kilkenny had ambushed cork game plan and it was heart breaking to be a cork man watch life being sucked out team all because we had no plan b

Cork could won that all ireland in we had changed team started wayne sherlock and had a plan b

Worst hammering in football had be this year munster final at home worst munster final defeat by kerry over thirty years made worse by we had talent and all Ireland winners to win the game but this kerry team even by their own supporters wasn't their greatest team but with out the great Gooch and the age limit of team overall being old, cork were completely humiliating destroyed by kerry and imo it was the lowest ebb imo for cork football


Best hammering we ever dished out in football was imo beating Tyrone with fourteen men and under counihan was rare exceptional performance in 2009 where cork peaked and played cohesion and fluidity and telepathic understanding from one to fifteen,then one to fourteen where we played fast fluent open counter attacking game where one of rare occasions that cork counihan out though true true great in mickey harte.
We won by five points but playing a half without o connor we dominated them
All six forwards scored from play a rarity under counihan but one he must deserve immense immense credit as that was imo best ever display cork against all irelands champions


Hurling

Cork beating tipp in 1990 4-16 to 2-14

Best hammering imo are the ones least expected
Cork were given no chance by anyone even in cork bar great canon Michael o brien (rip) who believed in cork when no one else did such arrived first training session year after shock defeat Waterford year before in 89 with number player 27c 1990 as show players he expected cork win twenty seventh all ireland


Fifty thousands in Thurles tipp raging favourite but cork winning in end bit spare by eight points and the dentist great mark foley getting 2-7 from play earn famous post match headlines cork dentist drills tippeary

That lead cork to all ireland final where they won it
It was such great day sports stadium great great Rte show back then had showed it footage from match on Saturday week after.
That game talked bout to this day and cork win hugely down to the legendary canon Michael o brien a wonderful wonderful gaa man in every sense.
Babs keating said donkeys don't win derbies.
Cork became thoroughbreds that day and that was sweetest of all imo win totally unexpected.

In the football and hurling games we won I choosed them as they were straight knock out no back door and like wise in hurling defeat
Now the munster football was not knock out but imo empathise the real humiliation that day as in football in munster in cork kerry rarely recently in back door took those game seriously but to be humiliated in last football final in the pairc was a real night mare and made worse by it was totally preventable imo.

padd b1975

Mayo.

Hammerings received: Hazy memories of some from the early to mid eighties against Galway-although back then I was more interested in the ice cream my uncles would buy me.

I don't remember Kerry '81 but it was a humiliation in the second half by all accounts.

Cork 1993 would be the worst, Gabriel Irwin turned his arse on one of the goals and I don't think he ever played for the county again.

1985 replay against Dublin was disappointing in the way we fell apart in the second half.


Hammerings given out: Donegal 2013 for reasons already mentioned in the thread.

First 50 minutes against Dublin 2012 is worth a mention.

Watching de Rossies whip themselves into a frenzy of false hope and expectation before a match against us only for us to regularly break the 20 point barrier without breaking sweat never gets old.

Mountainlad

Clareman wrote: »

It was a complete beating that day, terrible conditions but Clare won by double scores. And all the physical stuff was over after 5 minutes and I'd say Waterford have as good as they got on that side of things

I'm going to out on a limb here and say Blue Note was joking.

GerB40

Tipperary

The worst hammering received would probably be the 2012 AI semi final. We were beating Kilkenny by one point at half time but even then there was no sense of optimism among myself and my friends. (It's like we knew) They went on to bate the living shyte out of us by 18 points. It still sickens me to think about it...

The worst hammering given would in my mind be against Waterford in the 2011 muster final. The end score was 7-19 to 19 points and, with all due respect, I think Waterford never fully recovered from that.

Magill46

Monaghan

Hammerings given out

I remember playing Clare away in a league game when Paidi O'Se was in charge in and winning by about 20 points.
I can also remember playing Roscommon away in about 2007 and being really lucky to win by a few points. So when we played them the following year in Clones I was expecting a really tough game and we blew them away.


Hammerings received

1979 All Ireland Semi Final v Kerry. 5-14 v 0-7.

Monaghan went up and the theory was that "Kerry had never been hit". It turned out that Kerry couldn't be caught to be hit! 5 goals, 2 goals disallowed for non existent "square balls" and Monaghan goalkeeper Paddy Linden
got voted winner and runner up in RTE's "Save of the Year"and still didn't get an All Star nomination.
In fairness to Monaghan, that was Kerry at their peak. They beat Dublin by 11 in the Final and never really hit those peaks again. They just hit different peaks!

On a more personal note, I played one game for Monaghan as a goalkeeper against Tyrone in a tournament in Cross. I let in 6 and don't think we scored too many! I least I nicked a pair of togs!

Magill46

padd b1975 wrote: »

Mayo.



I don't remember Kerry '81 but it was a humiliation in the second half by all accounts.

Cork 1993 would be the worst, Gabriel Irwin turned his arse on one of the goals and I don't think he ever played for the county again.

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I was in Croke Park for the 1981 game. It was really the first time people took note nationally of Willie Joe Padden. He must have caught about 7 clean balls at midfield. Mayo gave as good as they got in first half but Kerry got a goal just before half time to make it 2-7 v 1-6 (you've really got to ask yourself why I know this!) and they scored 10 unanswered points in second half, 5 of which could have been goals if they had wanted. Kerry broke the ball on every kickout in the 2nd half to nullify Willie Joe.

The 1993 game was a disgrace. Mayo were bet from the first minute. Gabriel Irwin was a good keeper but that day he just summed up the shocking attitude of Mayo.

One more hammering to and from Monaghan was Armagh.

In 2003, we beat them when they were All Ireland Champions in Clones in the first round in Ulster. It was Paul Finlay's debut. He scored 8/8 from frees including the "It's rising, it's rising, it's over the bar and it's still rising" free from another town land in the 2nd half. No prizes for guessing who the commentator was!
I remember walking out and seeing Monaghan fans banging the Armagh bus on the way out. In those days you played the same team 2 years in a row. So Armagh came back the following year and beat us 2-19 v 0-10. And I think they kicked 15 wides as well. Joe Kieran mentioned the bus incident as motivation after the game. Although in those days Armagh took offence if the grass was green!

In 2010, on the famous day were Banty played Darren Hughes in goal. We hammered Armagh in Casement although were helped by Andy Mallon's dubious sending off in the first half. It was the day of the Dick Clerkin "Babe Ruth" point. Where he pointed to the posts before launching a shot from the sideline at the 45.