I think I can fly...

Zulu · January 23, 2009, 06:57:51 PM

What's this lads name? I've never seen a minor with a leap anything like it, amazing.

http://www.connachtgaa.ie/gallery2/main.php?g2_itemId=2148

http://www.connachtgaa.ie/gallery2/main.php?g2_itemId=2146

tyronefan · January 23, 2009, 07:00:07 PM

thats Peter Harte some jump

Puckoon · January 23, 2009, 07:00:40 PM

Is that not Niall McKenna Tyronefan? Eugenes son?

EDIT - it is, if you look in the second picture, Peter Harte (#6) is on the ground, to the left of the action.

Puckoon · January 23, 2009, 07:03:07 PM

Thats actually kinda funny - 6, 5, and Tyrones 12, all look like their stepping into a dance there.

Zulu · January 23, 2009, 07:04:05 PM

Yeah I thought it was young McKenna alright, besides his ability to climb into the clouds he is a fine footballer as well, I'd imagine he'll be on the Tyrone U21 panel this year.

tyronefan · January 23, 2009, 07:05:23 PM

your right Puck I just looked at the first photo

tyronefan · January 23, 2009, 07:07:20 PM

thanks Hardstation

INDIANA · January 23, 2009, 07:21:24 PM

surprised he hasn't his pick of aussie rules clubs, they'll go mad looking for him based on that.

BallyhaiseMan · January 23, 2009, 07:34:50 PM

Thats a ridiculous jump,
Never seen anything like that in GAA,
Nicholas Walsh from Cavan has a great vertical,But this guy is on a different level.

AFS · January 23, 2009, 07:40:51 PM

I'd say he is 4 foot minimum off the ground there. What would the average player be capable of I wonder?

ONeill · January 23, 2009, 07:44:48 PM

Augher's a great place for the corned beef. My sister did a thesis in university on the positive effects of corned beef. Apparently, and I'm quoting directly, 'eating a tin of corned beef every day is akin to adding another thread to the springs on your heel. The Maoris have a sub-clan who live on corned beef and can jump a height equivalent to the average English cottage.'

I'm surprised Mickey Harte or Pillar Caffrey never looked into this in depth. If anyone wants a copy of the thesis or any more info on this PM me.

BallyhaiseMan · January 23, 2009, 08:12:52 PM

Quote from: AFS on January 23, 2009, 07:40:51 PM
I'd say he is 4 foot minimum off the ground there. What would the average player be capable of I wonder?

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/56/192476711_56c81905e1.jpg?v=0

Nicholas Murphy and Darragh O Se, big men both fit to jump,but neither able to launch both feet off the ground and get as high as this young man.
hed make some basketball player.

ONeill · January 23, 2009, 08:17:41 PM

Ger Cavlan v Antrim 2003. Casement Park. He was jumping higher than Black Mountain.

mattockranger · January 23, 2009, 09:19:38 PM

That photo is breath taking!

reminds me of the famous image of sean walsh and brian mullins leaping in their heyday!!

can't find the image please post it up lads!

carol6 · January 23, 2009, 09:22:32 PM

Considering the genes it comes as no surprise that Niall can leap like a salmon. I remember watching his father Eugene play for Tyrone during the seventies and eighties and he had the uncanny ability to hang in the air. The apple did not fall far from the tree in this case. He leaps and catches like his father and has the same running style as him. If he fills out like his old man he will be a real gem in years to come.