Shocks and Tales of the Underdog

[DownFanatic]

Just wondering do any posters have good examples of county teams or club teams pulling off massive shocks against big favourites in one off Championship matches or even underdogs going on to win county championships when nobody expected them to?

[Farrandeelin]

Fermanagh against Armagh in 2004 would have to be up there as one of those I suppose. Maybe Fermanagh fans will think differently though.

[ross4life]

Leitrim winning the Connacht title in 1994 & they had to beat Roscommon,Galway & Mayo to win it.

[Sam2011]

Mayo V Tyrone 2004
Mayo V Dublin 2006
Mayo V Cork 2011

It was a great feeling leaving Croker those days!
They were all pretty sweet but the sweetest would have to be Dublin in 2006.
The lads going down to the Hill for the warm up, going down by seven points, then making an almighty come back to level the game and of course then there was one of the best ever points scored in Croker by Ciaran McDonald to win the match!

[nrico2006]

I remember in 2004 after watching Armagh lose I was overjoyed as I expected Tyrone to ease through to the final, how wrong was I.  Other shocks off-hand are:

- Coleraine winning the Derry SFC last year
- St Galls knocking Dunloy out of the Antrim HC this year
- Pearse Ogs beating Crossmaglen

[screenexile]

Mayo V Tyrone 2004
Mayo V Dublin 2006
Mayo V Cork 2011

It was a great feeling leaving Croker those days!
They were all pretty sweet but the sweetest would have to be Dublin in 2006.
The lads going down to the Hill for the warm up, going down by seven points, then making an almighty come back to level the game and of course then there was one of the best ever points scored in Croker by Ciaran McDonald to win the match!

Could you not just put down Mayo v (insert name here) . . . ye lads are underdogs most days

[Lone Shark]

In terms of underdogs, Tullamore beating Birr in the 2009 Offaly SHC semi final is the biggest shock I've ever seen in a championship game. Birr were 1/50 and Tullamore had lost all six group games that year.

None of the games mentioned above would have had the favourites shorter than 1/10, except maybe Dunloy who would have been 1/12 or so.

I've seen league games all right - Down beating Kilkenny in Nowlan Park back in the nineties would have to rank pretty highly - but other than that I couldn't think of any championship 1/50 shots turned over.

[AZOffaly]

What price would Offaly have been in 1989 when Cloot made a balls of us?

[AQMP]

6th August 1989...All Ireland Senior Hurling Semi Final

Antrim 4-15 Offaly 1-15

Dunno what the odds were, I'd say Antrim were shorter than 50/1 but still a big shock.  Probably my favourite GAA moment...but I'm biased.

[Tubberman]

Clare winning Munster in '92 must be up there as well.
"There won't be a cow milked in County Clare for at least a week"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IOmUryJIP8U

[AZOffaly]

6th August 1989...All Ireland Senior Hurling Semi Final

Antrim 4-15 Offaly 1-15

Dunno what the odds were, I'd say Antrim were shorter than 50/1 but still a big shock.  Probably my favourite GAA moment...but I'm biased.

Snap

[ONeill]

Clonoe winning the Tyrone title a couple of years back.

Clare v Kerry
Sludden v Louth

[Stevie g 8]

fermanagh v armagh in 2004
clare v kerry in 1992

[haranguerer]

Fermanagh had beat meath, and cork very comfortably in the rounds before that. It was the first one live on tv though, so I suppose thats why it garnered all the attention. Some days craic! 

[nrico2006]

Fermanagh had beat meath, and cork very comfortably in the rounds before that. It was the first one live on tv though, so I suppose thats why it garnered all the attention. Some days craic! 

The Cork game was on TV too.