Some great Small men..

thesultan · 25-02-2021 9:51am #1

Looking for some great Small men that played GAA. Tommy Walsh isn't a small man before he is added.
I'll go Ger Coughlan Offaly. He was some bit of stuff.
I'm football trying to think. Possibly James McCartan

Large bottle small glass · 25-02-2021 9:53am

thesultan wrote: »

Looking for some great Small men that played GAA. Tommy Walsh isn't a small man before he is added.
I'll go Ger Coughlan Offaly. He was some bit of stuff.
I'm football trying to think. Possibly James McCartan

John McGurk, Derry wing back.

WrenBoy · 25-02-2021 9:56am

Paul Murphy for Kerry.

MayoForSam · 25-02-2021 9:57am

Quote from Galway Bay FM commentator on a few vertically challenged lads playing GAA in Tuam stadium a while back "I've seen bigger men on top of a wedding cake".

Derek Savage was a great player for many years for both Galway and my local club.

Plastik · 25-02-2021 10:45am

Joe Deane, Cork. 5ft7.

Littlehorny · 25-02-2021 10:48am

Paidi O Shea, Peter Canavan and Martin Mc Hugh.

copacetic · 25-02-2021 10:49am

Brolly, canavan, murchin, paddy Kelly.

Littlehorny · 25-02-2021 10:52am

Richie Hogan in hurling.

Kevhog1988 · 25-02-2021 10:54am

Tadhg Fennin kildare

ratracer · 25-02-2021 10:56am

Damien Hayes, Portumna and Galway hurler.

Exiled1 · 25-02-2021 10:56am

Ger Coughlan and Brendan Keeshan
Jimmy Doyle - best of them all
Phil Fan Larkin, Joe Hennessy
Charlie McCarthy
Ollie O'Connor, Davy Clarke
Puddin' Cullinnane
Mick Flannelly and Frankie Walsh
Seanie Flood

Exiled1 · 25-02-2021 10:57am

Littlehorny wrote: »

Paidi O Shea, Peter Canavan and Martin Mc Hugh.

Paidi was no small man, built like a young bull.

Quantum Erasure · 25-02-2021 10:57am

Davy Fitz

joficeduns1 · 25-02-2021 10:58am

Shane Ryan for the Dubs in the midfield back about 15 years ago. Mighty.

Ray Donovan · 25-02-2021 10:58am

thesultan wrote: »

Looking for some great Small men that played GAA. Tommy Walsh isn't a small man before he is added.
I'll go Ger Coughlan Offaly. He was some bit of stuff.
I'm football trying to think. Possibly James McCartan

I agree with Ger Coughlan from Offaly. 5ft 5in. 5ft 6in at most.

2 All Irelands
2 All Stars,
7 Leinster Championships (Offaly had none when he started out)
Started and finished 11 Senior Leinster Hurling finals in a row which is a record.
5 county senior hurling championships.
Wing Back on Offaly Team of the Millenium.

Littlehorny · 25-02-2021 11:02am

Exiled1 wrote: »

Paidi was no small man, built like a young bull.

Would 5ft 8 or 9 not be considered small enough at inter county football level?

FintanMcluskey · 25-02-2021 11:10am

Littlehorny wrote: »

Would 5ft 8 or 9 not be considered small enough at inter county football level?

Are we talking about small in general population or small in athletic terms.

The average man in Ireland is about 5’9 meaning anything below is short.

Galway hurling’s starting team had an average height of 6”1 in recent years, does that mean below 6”1 is short on a pitch?

Arduach · 25-02-2021 11:11am

Shane O'Donnell and Tony Kelly, Clare.

Arduach · 25-02-2021 11:14am

Mick the rattler Byrne, Tipp, 1950s and 60s.

Sean Flood, Wexford, 1990s.

Seanie McGrath, Cork, late 1990s, early 2000s, played with an u14 hurl.

Arduach · 25-02-2021 11:17am

joficeduns1 wrote: »

Shane Ryan for the Dubs in the midfield back about 15 years ago. Mighty.

He was neither mighty nor small

Average player.

DuffleBag · 25-02-2021 11:38am

Arduach wrote: »

Shane O'Donnell and Tony Kelly, Clare.

Tony Kelly is 6ft ffs, surely David Reidy would've been a better pick if you were going Clare

Seanie McGrath from Cork

lab man · 25-02-2021 11:43am

Quantum Erasure wrote: »

Davy hes hes deffo 5'8

Arduach · 25-02-2021 12:57pm

DuffleBag wrote: »

Tony Kelly is 6ft ffs, surely David Reidy would've been a better pick if you were going Clare

Seanie McGrath from Cork

Tony Kelly 6ft!!! Are you alright? Someone blowing smoke up your arse on Wikipedia, he's 5ft 9.

breezy1985 · 25-02-2021 1:07pm

Quantum Erasure wrote: »

Davy Fitz

Especially rare given he is a goalkeeper.

I always thought TJ Ryan was small too but wikipedia has him at 5'10

25-02-2021 1:10pm

Plastik wrote: »

Joe Deane, Cork. 5ft7.

First one that came to mind. Some hurler.

Arduach · 25-02-2021 1:11pm

breezy1985 wrote: »

Especially rare given he is a goalkeeper.

I always thought TJ Ryan was small too but wikipedia has him at 5'10

I wouldn't trust Wikipedia. I see Tony Kelly is from 'Asia' on it! Though I'd say TJ is around that height.

French Toast · 25-02-2021 1:21pm

Jason Sherlock is down as 5'8. You'd put two of him in to that jersey.

MfMan · 25-02-2021 1:45pm

Kevin Broderick, Padraig Kelly, 2 very fine hurlers for Galway in the past, neither would be Olympic weightlifters. Currently, Evan Niland.

cantwbr1 · 25-02-2021 1:49pm

Sylvie Lynanne

cosatron · 25-02-2021 1:50pm

MfMan wrote: »

Kevin Broderick, Padraig Kelly, 2 very fine hurlers for Galway in the past, neither would be Olympic weightlifters. Currently, Evan Niland.

PJ molloy aswell. Was mickey Linden small or just slight build

DuffleBag · 25-02-2021 2:01pm

Arduach wrote: »

Tony Kelly 6ft!!! Are you alright? Someone blowing smoke up your arse on Wikipedia, he's 5ft 9.

Gway ta **** unless he's shrinking over the years and lost a few inches since 2013.

https://www.independent.ie/sport/gaelic-games/gaelic-football/all-ireland-final-diary-29557264.html

French Toast · 25-02-2021 2:05pm

Podge Collins is 5'7 supposedly.

Arduach · 25-02-2021 2:48pm

DuffleBag wrote: »

Gway ta **** unless he's shrinking over the years and lost a few inches since 2013.

https://www.independent.ie/sport/gaelic-games/gaelic-football/all-ireland-final-diary-29557264.html

That's bollocks and Wikipedia got it from there. Many a time I stood beside him and was looking down at him. Paper never refused ink. Those height and weights on match programmes are very inaccurate. Go back ta **** yourself!

blackvalley · 25-02-2021 2:55pm

Tommy Dowd ( Meath )

flasher0030 · 25-02-2021 3:07pm

Arduach wrote: »

That's bollocks and Wikipedia got it from there. Many a time I stood beside him and was looking down at him. Paper never refused ink. Those height and weights on match programmes are very inaccurate. Go back ta **** yourself!

Maybe if you climbed down from the high horse you're sitting on, you wouldn't be looking down on him. The internet says he's 6 foot, so he's 6 foot!!!!
The internet does not lie.

DuffleBag · 25-02-2021 4:38pm

Arduach wrote: »

That's bollocks and Wikipedia got it from there. Many a time I stood beside him and was looking down at him. Paper never refused ink. Those height and weights on match programmes are very inaccurate. Go back ta **** yourself!

Gwan so, I have a quiet afternoon so I said I'd entertain you and give you the limelight you crave.

Here's 5ft 9" Tony Kelly next to 6ft'ish John McGrath, and also one of him across the line from 6ft 3" Conor Cleary. Where's my clown emoji

The_Kew_Tour · 25-02-2021 5:00pm

Seanie O Leary Cork 1970/80s

Arduach · 25-02-2021 5:41pm

None of them boys 6ft. Bar the second and the fifth lad from the left in the bottom photo.

Arduach · 25-02-2021 5:46pm

flasher0030 wrote: »

Maybe if you climbed down from the high horse you're sitting on, you wouldn't be looking down on him. The internet says he's 6 foot, so he's 6 foot!!!!
The internet does not lie.

I'm 6ft 3 and when I talk to Tony he's no more 6ft than Danny de Vito.

Arduach · 25-02-2021 5:48pm

Tots Callaghan Clare was a very small one. Don't know where he's gone. Good underage.

blackvalley · 25-02-2021 6:01pm

Arduach wrote: »

I'm 6ft 3 and when I talk to Tony he's no more 6ft than Danny de Vito.

If the debate is now at the point of what side of six foot an individual is it’s gone a “long” way from the original post

Arduach · 25-02-2021 6:07pm

blackvalley wrote: »

If the debate is now at the point of what side of six foot an individual is it’s gone a “long” way from the original post

No it's not. Tony Kelly is well below 6ft. You have an inaccurate measurement doing the rounds, copy and paste job, on the internet.

By the way Tommy Dowd wasn't that small, just the hunched style. On the 'internet' Tommy is 1.85m! You can't have it both ways, 6ft 1in.

https://www.google.com/search?q=Tommy+dowd+height&oq=Tommy+dowd+height&aqs=chrome..69i57j33i160.9282j0j7&client=ms-android-hmd-rev2&sourceid=chrome-mobile&ie=UTF-8

blackvalley · 25-02-2021 6:25pm

Arduach wrote: »

No it's not. Tony Kelly is well below 6ft. You have an inaccurate measurement doing the rounds, copy and paste job, on the internet.

By the way Tommy Dowd wasn't that small, just the hunched style. On the 'internet' Tommy is 1.85m! You can't have it both ways, 6ft 1in.

https://www.google.com/search?q=Tommy+dowd+height&oq=Tommy+dowd+height&aqs=chrome..69i57j33i160.9282j0j7&client=ms-android-hmd-rev2&sourceid=chrome-mobile&ie=UTF-8

OK point taken . I didn’t actually look up the Tommy Dowd data. He just appeared small. Although built like a proverbial “ brick ****house “ .
However I would suggest that if someone is of average height ( I don’t know what that is exactly nowadays) then they don’t come under the umbrella of “ small player “
Think I saw Joe Brolly mentioned and would suspect he’s not small in real terms.
Perhaps with the increasing height of youngsters nowadays it won’t be long before we’re reminiscing and talking about “that little lad Brian Mullins that played for Dublin a few years ago “

Arduach · 25-02-2021 6:30pm

blackvalley wrote: »

OK point taken . I didn’t actually look up the Tommy Dowd data. He just appeared small. Although built like a proverbial “ brick ****house “ .
However I would suggest that if someone is of average height ( I don’t know what that is exactly nowadays) then they don’t come under the umbrella of “ small player “
Think I saw Joe Brolly mentioned and would suspect he’s not small in real terms.
Perhaps with the increasing height of youngsters nowadays it won’t be long before we’re reminiscing and talking about “that little lad Brian Mullins that played for Dublin a few years ago “

No problem. It's very hard to judge from matches, tv etc.

The only reason I'm so adamant on Tony Kelly is I met him at a work thing, and I don't want to sound like name dropping, and every bit of me feels he was well under 6ft. I've a brother an exact 6ft and he'd be well below him. I'm going to leave it here so.

Well that's it, Limerick hurlers have to be the tallest gaa team ever assembled!

Danville · 25-02-2021 8:03pm

Tommy Prendeville Kerry
Kevin Ger O Sullivan Cork
Both mighty little half-backs.

thesultan · 25-02-2021 8:45pm

Ray Donovan wrote: »

I agree with Ger Coughlan from Offaly. 5ft 5in. 5ft 6in at most.

2 All Irelands
2 All Stars,
7 Leinster Championships (Offaly had none when he started out)
Started and finished 11 Senior Leinster Hurling finals in a row which is a record.
5 county senior hurling championships.
Wing Back on Offaly Team of the Millenium.

Saw him marking way bigger men like Kevin Hennessy and his stick work was amazing

thesultan · 25-02-2021 8:45pm

Arduach wrote: »

Shane O'Donnell and Tony Kelly, Clare.

Tony Kelly is nearly six foot

washman3 · 25-02-2021 9:02pm

Arduach wrote: »

Well that's it, Limerick hurlers have to be the tallest gaa team ever assembled!

All except for Graeme Mulcahy and Peter Casey.
Graeme probably 5'7"
Peter maybe slightly more but built like a tank.
(Kyle Hayes is 6'6")

Sultan of Bling · 25-02-2021 9:08pm

As a dubs fan the greatest small men in gaa would have to be john and paddy.

Sultan of Bling · 25-02-2021 9:13pm

Brian dooher sprang to mind but i see on the net he is 5ft 10 so not exactly pint sized. Maybe similar to tommy dowd he just looked smaller because of his style.

Bernard flynn, he was tiny though but a decent forward.

Fredinho · 25-02-2021 9:23pm

John mullane

Some great Small men..

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