Missed Opportunities....

No mention of Mayo??

rpurfield wrote: »

The Dubs in 91 might be one too, they really should have had Meath put away in them 4 games. I know a lot of the Meath lads playing at the time feel that was one left behind too, but having looked at it back on Eir recently I'm not so sure myself.

A lot of people forget that Meath drew with Wicklow in the following match in the Leinster QF. Meath got a last gasp bounced point to draw it. In the replay Wicklow were beaten by a goal. A definite missed opportunity for the garden county.

C__MC wrote: »

Limerick footballers 03-10

It was a bit disappointing not to grab a provincial title all right.

We could have won any of our 5 finals. There was some right cruel ones (Cork 2008 semi final is also in the mix). Would say 2009 was the one that hurt us the most.

In saying that we got to be a competitive force for over a decade. When you consider that 6 of the 10 All Irelands won in that time were by Kerry and Cork (and Cork lost twice to Kerry) it was miraculous we ever competed.

The football fraternity in the county is so small despite being a decent sized county and we were facing players from illustrous clubs like Austin Stacks, Dr Crokes, An Gaeltacht, Bantry, St Finbarrs, Nemo Rangers etc. Even some of our more established clubs didn't produce players like the hurling areas of Na Piarsaigh,Patrickswell or KIlmallock.

The players were very close to the fans too. It was like every player knew everyone who was going to watch them. You always got a performance to be proud of from them. Especially in the wake of some dire days at the Hurling.

We made the most of a good minor/under 21 scene from 97-01 in all honesty. It was a right good time all things considered.

C__MC wrote: »

Waterford hurlers 02-07
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1998 also another year where we could of went the whole way. Paul Flynn missed a free at the end to give us the chance too win the Munster championship and the game ended in a draw where we were well beaten in the replay by Clare. We should of beaten Kilkenny in the All Ireland semi final too

2002- Think we over celebrated winning Munster and were caught on the hop in the Al semis

2004- Missed John Mullane big time in the AI semi final in a game which Henry Shefflin played out of his skin (didn't he have an eye injury and was doubtful for the game ?)

2007 was a missed opportunity but Limerick caught us on the hop. Its hard to knw would we have got the game postponed a week if we requested it ?. Great heart to come back against Cork in the AI QFs that year

2010- After winning munster we sadly couldn't get over Tipp in the AI semi finals and really never looked like winning it

2016- we should of won that drawn game against Kilkenny and made it to the All Ireland final but took our eye off the ball. Panic set in when hawkeye disallowed that Kevin Moran point too put us 4 points in the lead going into injury time

2017 was a missed opportunity and the small things cost us in the final In form Jamie Barron been unwell, Moran missing that sitter of a point in the 2nd half and Galway having so much motivation with the sad death of Tony Keady. Our management messed up a bit by delaying coming out for the 2nd half with the Galway team out before us with the image of Tony Keady still on the big screen, (that deff inspired Galway before the 2nd half)

Jesus its frustrating

Limerick in 94&96 Enough said

Deleted User wrote: »

I was at the 2013 drawn all ireland,if cork had won....it would have been pure robbery




Always felt setanta obailpin going off to oz,cost cork one or two all irelands and would have dented kk invincibility and could potentially seen cody ousted/leave earlier

I don't know about that.
He was still a bit raw when he left and Cork didn't really miss him - they won the following two All-Irelands

He had potential for sure, but no guarantee he'd train on and even if he did, would that be enough to turn Cork from also-rans to champions in the 2007-2012 years?


I think Limerick losing in 1996 was a body blow they needed a long time to recover from.
Waterford in 03 in particular, just needed the monkey off their back and they could have kicked on.

In football, Louth in 2010
may never have a better chance of a Leinster title and to be denied by a fella throwing the ball in the net. They've hardly won a game since

cms88 wrote: »

Seen this somewhere else and thought it was interesting.

a thread on counties in both codes, who have let big opportunites slip away from them, kind of moments in time where they could have led to great or greater success down the line.

Monaghon v Kerry 2007. Monaghan lost by a point on the day and really should have won. Had they got over the line they would have been in a first semi-final in 20 years and then who knows. Took them a while to recover from it.

Roscommon in 1998. A very late free to Galway to draw the Connacht final. Galway went on to win the replay and the All-Ireland.

Galway let the 2000 All-Ireland behinf them the first day out.

Laois from 2003-2007. Should really have won at least another Leinster title, abd could easly have won three in a row from 2003-2005.

In hurling.

Any number of examples of Galway.

The late 80's to mid 90's or so when Antrim and Down were competitive. Antrim got the final of course in 89 but could and probally should have again in 91 when they lost to Kilkenny 2-18 to 1-19. Down also put in some good displays around this time as well.

I was living beside Croker at that time and landed in for that Monaghan game within 15min of exiting the scratcher. God they were the days.

Still fume to this day at some of the decisions. Didn't Donaghy score a particularly dubious goal that day?

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Biggest near miss for me has to be Kerry 1-12 Sligo 0-14.

Imagine that championship if they'd headed home with the tail between their legs.

Going back to Mayo - I firmly believe that if Mayo had beaten Meath in 1996 and that ball hadn't bounced over the crossbar to force a draw that Mayo would have won at least one or two All-Ireland's since.

Looking back, losing against Cork in the final in 1989 wasn't looked on as a missed opportunity or something the county dwelled on. However, losing the 1996 final seemed to have really created the mantra that Mayo were 'nearly men'. The loss against Kerry in the final in 1997 and Galway winning in 1998 seemed to have really reinforce this idea and attributed to many of the All-Ireland losses in the 2000's and 2010's.

1998 was Waterford’s big chance.

However Kilkenny managed to win with 1-11 I’ll never know.

Edit: The answer to that question is Willie O’Connor giving an exhibition.

PTH2009 wrote: »

2017 was a missed opportunity and the small things cost us in the final In form Jamie Barron been unwell, Moran missing that sitter of a point in the 2nd half and Galway having so much motivation with the sad death of Tony Keady. Our management messed up a bit by delaying coming out for the 2nd half with the Galway team out before us with the image of Tony Keady still on the big screen, (that deff inspired Galway before the 2nd half)

Ah cmon now, it's not as if a team is going to need extra motivation in an AI Final? Are you trying to say Galway (how hadn't won in 29 years) wouldn't have given 100% originally but the tragedy of Tony spurred them to the max? If anything the sad loss was probably a distraction that week

That was a very one sided first half and Galway should've gone in 7 pts up. Waterfords second goal that half was the gift of all gifts. I'd take that game out of the notebook anyway. Ye were outsiders going in and the game played out as such