Limerick XI!!

**Shannonsider** · 06/12/2010, 1:40 PM

What is your Limerick XI since you have been attending Limerick games. State what year you first attended games reguarly and name your favourite starting team with subs.

**Lim till i die** · 06/12/2010, 1:53 PM

Hickey

Finnan
O'Halloran
Purcell
Delgarno

Ryan
Carr
McMahon
Izzi

McCarthy
O'Flynn

SUBS:
Colbert
Barrett
O'Connor
Ryan (GK)
Heffernan
Sweeney
Keating

Sometime in the early to mid 90s, I'm hazy enough.

**Monkfish** · 07/12/2010, 5:24 PM

Originally Posted by Shannonsider

What is your Limerick XI since you have been attending Limerick games. State what year you first attended games reguarly and name your favourite starting team with subs.

Why should we?

**Monkfish** · 09/12/2010, 11:11 PM

Originally Posted by Becks

as usual another great post out of you no wonder your well liked

I am well liked or not well liked? what are you trying to say? if im not well liked its down to my good looks and huge *****

Perhaps the OP or yourself would like to post your teams?

**joeSoap** · 16/12/2010, 12:49 PM

Kevin Fitzpatrick(senior); Pat Nolan, Ray O'Halloran, Paul Finucane, Johnny Mullane; Tony Meaney, Eoin Hand, Daithi McMahon, Johnny Walsh; Tony Morris, Derek McCarthy.

Subs: John Power, Pat Purcell, Gerry Duggan, Billy Hamilton,

**Shannonsider** · 16/12/2010, 1:37 PM

Noel Mooney

Molan, Stephen O Mahony, Paddy Purcell, Finucane.

Heffernen, Tommy Barrett, Wayne Colbert, Kevin Waters.

Derek McCarthy, Stephen O' Flynn

Subs:
O' Neill
Woulfe
Lester
Eoin Keating
Kelleher

Been attending games reguarly since about 2000

**gspain** · 16/12/2010, 3:26 PM

late 70/1 season but no memory of Andy McEvoy (best ever according to mny Dad and a few others)

Kevin Fitzpatrick
Pat Nolan Joe O'Mahony Brendan Storan Jimmy Nodwell
Johnny Walsh Eoin Hand Tommy Lynch Tony Ward
Billy Hamilton Tommy Gaynor

subs

Al Finucane (best days in a waterford shirt in my time)
Peter Coyle
Ray O'Halloran
Gerry Duggan
Tony Meaney
Albert finnan
Ken de Mange
Peter Hanrahan
Joe Hanrahan

probably forgetting someone obvious

**fc hammer** · 16/12/2010, 7:26 PM

Originally Posted by gspain

late 70/1 season but no memory of Andy McEvoy (best ever according to mny Dad and a few others)

Kevin Fitzpatrick
Pat Nolan Joe O'Mahony Brendan Storan Jimmy Nodwell
Johnny Walsh Eoin Hand Tommy Lynch Tony Ward
Billy Hamilton Tommy Gaynor

subs

Al Finucane (best days in a waterford shirt in my time)
Peter Coyle
Ray O'Halloran
Gerry Duggan
Tony Meaney
Albert finnan
Ken de Mange
Peter Hanrahan
Joe Hanrahan

probably forgetting someone obvious

you can throw des kennedy into that lot and you'll be spot on

**gspain** · 17/12/2010, 10:23 AM

Originally Posted by fc hammer

you can throw des kennedy into that lot and you'll be spot on

Nah he only scored against bad teams.

Actually I did consider Des and Tony Morris and decided against them.

This probably sounds very harsh as Des was a great clubman but not as good a player imo as Billy Hamilton (who was virtually unplayable) and Tommy Gaynor (gifted player who could have done so much more eventhough he did win an FAI Cup and a league cup at wembley with Nottm Forest). Des was let go to a then much inferior Galway at one stage and was replaced by John Delamere in the run-in in 1980. Against that he did score home and away v Real Madrid, was a great servant and a great guy. He was a true Limerick legend but as for being in the best ever in my time would just miss out.

Tony Morris was a superb poacher and really burst on the scene with vital goals in the latter half of 78/9 before scoring 19 in the league winning season. Maybe if he had scored the winner at the Dell - he blazed over an open goal from 6 yards with 4 minutes left.... He had of course got the equaliser earlier. Classic goal poacher and probably the best finisher we ever had.

Daithi McMahon would have been close and probably i nthe team had he stayed for longer.

Paddy Shortt was my first Limerick hero but he left in 1972 when I was 5 so my main memories of him are in Waterford and Celtic shirts. The only game I know for sure I was at in 70/1 & 71/2 was Kevin Fitzpatrick's testimonial which was my first game in the stand (as opposed to the popularside where I almost always went). From 72/3 on I went all the time and can remember players, games, goals etc (not all of them obviously)

**joeSoap** · 17/12/2010, 11:38 AM

I had to go with Morris...he was the best finisher I ever saw play for Limerick..bar none. Gary Hulmes wasn't bad either, and Hamilton was...well he was what you'd have expected from a man who played World Cup football. I seriously think that injury robbed Derek McCarthy of a top class career. He had everything except fitness and when he got fit injury got in the way time after time.

Hand, Meaney and Walsh were all shoe-ins to my midfield, as were Ray O'Halloran and Paul Finucane to my defence. Finny was the most naturally talented player that I have seen in a long long time and just got the nod over Storan who I will always remember for that goal in Dalymount, and Paddy Purcell who has given amazing service to the club.