In hurling we're wondering if they got confused between Waterford's Eoin Kelly and Eoin McGrath.

McGrath has received the invite to the bash in the CityWest on 19 October, and arguably, deservedly so, but not at the expense of his teammate and former clubmate.

Go through Kelly's summer. He scored the winning goal in Thurles against Cork, the point that changed the Munster "nal and a brilliant four points from mid"eld in the epic quarter-"nal replay against Cork in Croke Park. In the past Kelly has been rightly charged as being erratic but this year he was a model of consistency. He was the championship's ninth leading scorer from play and one of only seven players to score from play in every championship match.

And then there's the league when he averaged more from play than any other player in the competition.

In fact, if you combine both league and championship, Kelly is one of the year's top two scorers and one of its top four scorers from play. For such a versatile player not to be accommodated anywhere, while Kilkenny's Willie O'Dwyer, who scored a grand total of 2-8 in all competitions this year is, is scandalous.

Lar Corbett, the championship's sixth leading scorer from play, is another odd omission. In the backs, Dublin's Ronan Fallon should have been acknowledged, while Clare's Gerry O'Grady was more consistent than, say, Limerick's Damien Reale who was sent off in his "rst championship match and injured for the Munster "nal.

The football list is less contentious, but quite how Meath's Brian Farrell feels about Michael Cussen getting nominated ahead of him is another thing. Farrell scored 836 in the league, and another 0-25 in the championship. Cussen, we estimate, barely touched the ball 25 times in the championship, even if that says more about Cork than their big man.