If you read last year’s post on the 3-in-a-row, you’ll know that the answer is zero. No Kilkenny player played every minute of the 3-in-a-row, not to mind the 4. I’ve had a request to do a follow-up post showing which Cats contributed most (in terms of playing minutes) to their historic 4 Liams in a row.
Here it is:
1235 minutes Tommy Walsh (18 matches)
1225 minutes Henry Shefflin (18 matches)
1200 minutes Eoin Larkin (18 matches)
1190 minutes Jackie Tyrrell (17 matches)
1145 minutes Eddie Brennan (17 matches)
1138 minutes JJ Delaney (17 matches)
1088 minutes Michael Kavanagh (16 matches)
1081 minutes Martin Comerford (18 matches)
1038 minutes James Fitzpatrick (16 matches)
934 minutes Derek Lyng (16 matches)
901 minutes PJ Ryan (13 matches)
784 minutes Brian Hogan (12 matches)
767 minutes Aidan Fogarty (15 matches)
685 minutes Noel Hickey (11 matches)
664 minutes John Tennyson (13 matches)
642 minutes Richie Power (13 matches)
538 minutes Michael Rice (13 matches)
444 minutes Willie O’Dwyer (12 matches)
359 minutes James McGarry (6 matches)
316 minutes Michael Fennelly (9 matches)
312 minutes John Dalton (6 matches)
266 minutes James Ryall (6 matches)
163 minutes Eoin McCormack (3 matches)
153 minutes Richie Hogan (4 matches)
147 minutes Richie Mullally (6 matches)
147 minutes Donncha Cody (3 matches)
118 minutes TJ Reid (7 matches)
96 minutes PJ Delaney (3 matches)
91 minutes Eoin Reid (3 matches)
21 minutes Sean Cummins (1 match)
12 minutes Peter Cleere (1 match)
Compared to last year’s post there are a few differences.
- Kilkenny played 18 matches to win the 4-in-a-row. 18 matches by 70 minutes gives 1260 minutes of hurling in total. Tommy Walsh was only 25 minutes shy of this total. He was substituted in the 2007 Leinster Final.
- Only 4 players played in every match of the 4-in-row. Tommy Walsh, Henry Shefflin, Eoin Larkin and Martin Comerford. Cha Fitzpatrick drops off this list; he played in every game of the 3-in-a-row but injury this season meant he lost his place.
- There are 31 players in the list compared to 30 last year. The newbie is Sean Cummins who made his debut v Galway in the Leinster Championship.
Will I be repeating this post next year? The bookies have the Cats at evens to do the 5-in-a-row so I think I’ll save this database query for another year 