Forget the All-Stars, these are the awards that GAA players really want to win.
The Maurice Fitz award for the score with the most outrageous curl of the week
There really was an exhibition of point-taking delivered in Breffni Park yesterday and it looked for all the world as if Maurice Fitz himself was giving Fermanagh some tips such was the quality of some of their points with the outside of the boot.
This week’s award, however, goes to Darren Hughes, who finished off a typically barnstorming run with a score from a crazily tight angle, despite having to hold off the attentions of several Fermanagh defenders en route to goal.
Granted, there wasn’t much in the way of curl about it, but it was still an outstanding score nonetheless.
The ‘business at the back and sides, party up front’ championship haircut of the week award
We’re going for a bit of a break in tradition this week as while Sligo’s Cian Breheny would have been a worthy winner with his hairstyle, we had to plump for his teammate, goalkeeper Aidan Devaney, who must be in with a shout for the best beard in the GAA.
Just look at that for a magnificent piece of facial fluff.
If the Game of Thrones lads are ever looking for a beard double for Tormund Giantsbane, they have their man.
The GAA shtyle statement of the week
Nobody but nobody in the GAA can do the ‘socks pulled up to the absolute threshold of the elastic’ look better than Kilkenny’s TJ Reid.
About as far removed from famous ‘socks down’ merchants like Steve Claridge and Jack Grealish as you could get.
The ‘did he get that from the soccer?’ showboat of the week
Blink and you’ll have missed Bonner Maher’s delightful flick to set up Jason Forde’s goal for Tipperary against Limerick, but Brendan Cummins didn’t miss it and gave it the credit it was due on The Sunday Game.
Class.
Sign that maybe the GAA isn’t getting soft at all award
Limerick ‘keeper Barry Hennessy’s challenge on Seamus Callanan yesterday.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iLarOFbzuRA
That had to have hurt and judging by the picture below it obviously did.
Thankfully Seamus was patched up and had clearly gotten over the worst of it by last night.
Late night end to a long week in @ConfiDentCahir.Well done to @SeamusCallanan and all @TipperaryGAA on the win today pic.twitter.com/1a0ctfuG3o
— ConfiDental Cahir (@ConfiDentCahir) June 21, 2015
Only in the GAA moment of the week
Brace yourselves. Celebrities bearing ‘Mayo for Sam’ signs are coming.
The first victim: Steve Peacocke, AKA Brax from Home and Away.
He won’t be the last this summer. Far from it.
JOE’s Guaranteed Irish Sports’ Star of the Week Award, a tribute to the tradition of incredibly long names for award titles in the GAA
Sligo weren’t given a hope in hell of toppling Roscommon in Markievicz Park on Saturday evening, but they did it in some style and were fully deserving winners.
Adrian Marren has served the Yeats County well over the years and he mas magnificent again at the weekend, scoring 1-7 and proving a handful to the Roscommon defence throughout.
A worthy recipient of this week’s award.
*All images and clips courtesy of Inpho and The Sunday Game
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