Just watching the 3rd replay between Meath V Dublin. It was very naive football just hoofing it anywhere really. If the first half was played in this day and age people would be calling it puke football.

But anyway that was some hit Colm O'Rourke got in the 4th minute. I also remember our own Stephen Gollogy creaming Mark McHugh in 2013.

Just wondering what's other people's memories of BIG HITS??

FarneyheadFarneyheart (Monaghan) - Posts: 14 - 22/08/2018 21:00:00    2135725

2005 All Ireland Semi Final Tyrone & Armagh, Sean Cavanagh and Francie Bellew came full pelt shoulder to shoulder off each other, as the commentator said on the day "you could feel that all the way up on the upper Hogan". It took something to put Francie down and that hit did!

mchugp (Tyrone) - Posts: 82 - 22/08/2018 22:34:45    2135770

2001 in Thurles the drawn game between Kerry and the Dubs, with about ten minutes to go Jason Sherlock got on the end of a lovely diagonal ball, he stopped turned and Seamus Moynihan was coming like a train from Sherlock's blind side, Moynihan floored him sending him in an actual spin. I've been shouldered by Moynihan and I'm no slouch but this was like an U14 vs a junior b full back - just bang and Sherlock on the ground, still though in fairness to him he still had the ball he just didn't know where he was or what to do with it.

Horsebox77 (Kerry) - Posts: 5491 - 22/08/2018 23:14:28    2135779

Neil McGee on Stevie O'Neill
Peter Harte vs Mayo a few years ago-was it Boyle or Cunliffe maybe. Big hit.

The_Fridge (Tyrone) - Posts: 2088 - 22/08/2018 23:24:39    2135781

Joxer (Dublin) - Posts: 4700 - 22/08/2018 23:55:16    2135792

link

1:32. Tom Cunniffe on Peter Harte in 2013.

GreenandRed (Mayo) - Posts: 7363 - 23/08/2018 00:42:04    2135795

Ha, great stuff lads, Sherlock looked like he was clotheslined but lb for lb he was as tough as anyone. Poor old Colm was concussed but had the last laugh when introduced in the closing stages to raise moral and it worked too.
All in all this has to be up there ...

https://youtu.be/mc9VY7BKKCw

Nasty but very typical of the games between these two great sides, even in exhibition games.

Paudi O'Sé's haymaker on Dinny Allen deserves a mention as does O'Neill's straightner on the bould Mick Lyons, very few have done that and lived to tell the tale. Lucky for him Lyons new the ref was a coming and walked away!

realdub (Dublin) - Posts: 8596 - 23/08/2018 02:05:12    2135797

Tom Cunnife,hope I spelled his name correct, versus our own Peter Harte.It was a real bone shattering hit, Petey got his pelvis fractured I believe.Also remember Stephen O' Neil bouncing of Neil Mc Gee one time,although that was just funny.

seanie_boy (Tyrone) - Posts: 4235 - 23/08/2018 03:05:09    2135803

Tom Cunniffes monster hit on Peter Harte in the All Ireland semi final a few years back

Tizcold (Galway) - Posts: 239 - 23/08/2018 06:37:26    2135810

padraic maher hitting joe canning in the semi final 2 yrs ago....flattened him

munsterchamps (Limerick) - Posts: 1100 - 23/08/2018 08:41:10    2135815

John McDermott giving peter canavan a big but fair shoulder in 96 semis.

royaldunne (Meath) - Posts: 19449 - 23/08/2018 09:00:35    2135818

clondalkindub (Dublin) - Posts: 9926 - 23/08/2018 09:12:35    2135822

diarmuid o sullivan on some limerick player (barry foley?) i think he is still picking himself up!

perfect10 (Wexford) - Posts: 3929 - 23/08/2018 09:38:11    2135827

Fergal Doherty on Barry Dunnion (?)

Breffni40 (Cavan) - Posts: 12122 - 23/08/2018 09:39:07    2135828

The Gollogly McHugh one was more of a 50:50 clash than a big hit (ok maybe 60:40). Gollogly did put a proper hit on big Joe Diver in 2007. Given the size difference in the two players involved it left the commentators puzzled as to what had just happened when the Derry man stayed down.

Owen Lennon's huge fair shoulder on Ronan Flanagan in 2013 sparked a crazy 2 minutes of football that ended with a McManus point (who else?). That ultimately swung the game away from Cavan. The best big hit in recent history was Neil McGee on Stephen O'Neill, executed brilliantly while in possession of the ball. He swallowed it up and just laid off a pass like nothing had happened. A game changer.

Of course the all time great was the time 5 Dublin players had a cut off Mickey Ned.. the good old days when common assault passed for football.

Eddie the Exile (Monaghan) - Posts: 1064 - 23/08/2018 10:00:51    2135833

Aye I remember the hit on McHugh, we were poor that day and there's no doubt that rattled us with Mark going off. I remember as well Lacey being hit incredibly late in Croke Park, I think it might have been Mayo in 2012 but not 100% sure.

Stephen O'Neill coming in on Neil McGee for a big hit and bouncing off him still brings a smile to my face

JoeSoap (Donegal) - Posts: 1432 - 23/08/2018 10:05:35    2135835

The Rock's hit on that Limerick player is the clip I show to people over here in London when they ask me what hurling is like - it neatly encapsulates the physicality and skill of the game.

This https://www.balls.ie/gaa/hardest-men-gaa-149108 from a couple of years ago has a few of the big hitters in it, including the time Francie Bellew extracted the Teeth of the Mourne from Mickey Linden's jaw: https://youtu.be/-hXMGjgWMVs?t=4m37s

TheBlackDeath (Cavan) - Posts: 73 - 23/08/2018 10:33:56    2135845

Would it be fair to say Mark Mchugh never really recovered from that famous hit?

clondalkindub (Dublin) - Posts: 9926 - 23/08/2018 10:40:10    2135849

Breffni40 (Cavan) - Posts: 12122 - 23/08/2018 10:58:34    2135858

That incident has seemed to sour relations with Monaghan for a lot of Donegal fans (more than the result itself), which was a pity because there is always a great atmosphere when the two counties meet.
Donegal got widespread support in Monaghan in 1992 and 2012, and will do again if/when their current crop progress in the championship. It was a brutal clash no doubt, and young mchugh was badly injured, but Gollogly himself took a major head/eye injury himself and his day was done too. Reckless more than malicious.

Eddie the Exile (Monaghan) - Posts: 1064 - 23/08/2018 11:01:59    2135859