The greatest minor hurler?
Recent murmurings about the abolition of the U18 grade notwithstanding, a real glamour still attaches to minor level. The U21 championship offers some very good games every season without fail, and senior is the obvious goal for any youngster, but minor is both journey and destination.
Describing someone as an outstanding minor doesn’t have to imply a squandered talent. It’s a self-contained career. To that end, our main criterion is the cut-off point at the end of a candidate’s 18th year: any heroics performed subsequently as a senior hurler — or lack of same — can’t be allowed to taint the evaluation of those minor performances.
