Minor All Ireland Football Championship 2024

[onefineday]

Large majority of lads at minor never break through to their senior club teams, never mind county.

Just the way it is.

If you look at minor teams from match programmes a way back, you can normally only pick out a few players that have 'made it' at senior level.

I think it depends on the size of the club, smaller clubs tend to have immediate opportunities for star minors, so they don't slip through the net.
Similar at county level, growing complaints in Kerry for example that they haven't really reaped that benefits of the 5 in a row, and that's because so many of them haven't had had an opportunity to play county football. Whereas there are plenty of examples of one successful underage team providing 5/6 of a successful senior intercounty team, that's especially the case with less successful counties, where young players are drafted in relatively quickly.

[Blowitupref]

Kerry did alright in bringing through a good number of those minors to seniors.  From their 2014,2015,2016 All Ireland minor winners 12 of those players featured in the senior semi final against Armagh this year.

They wasted no time playing the best of those minors at senior level as was seen with David Clifford,Sean O'Shea making their senior debuts as teens.

[OakLeaf]

Sounds like Gareth O'Neill Greenlough, was a very good midfielder, not sure what happened him.

Garret O'Neill. He played a good few years for Greenlough but was never that committed. Certainly not enough to play county football.

[Hoof Hearted]

Sounds like Gareth O'Neill Greenlough, was a very good midfielder, not sure what happened him.

Garret O'Neill. He played a good few years for Greenlough but was never that committed. Certainly not enough to play county football.

Gatsy could've fielded a ball alright
Greenlough have aleays had a few great players over the years, that building down at the corner didn't help things with commitment

[imtommygunn]

It was O'Neill yeah. Diamond ended up playing for rossa in Antrim at one point iirc.

[Estimator]

Coney was fantastic too - just never broke through.

One that always stands out to me is that people say there was a better player than donnelan or Joyce on a fantastic Galway team yet he never made it. I think con cannon was his name.

Best minor performance I ever saw was a boy called gareth (maybe garrett) playing for Derry minors against Monaghan I think. Paddy Bradley playing same day. I've still never seen a display of fielding like it.

John Concannon. Give Sean Marty Lockhart hell in the '94 Hogan Final. He played full-forward. Maybe scored 1-5.
Joyce and Donnellan played in the half forward line that day, but Concannon was the star of the show.