Brian Greene
Q1. Nickname: “Greener”!!
Q2. Favourite Position: Wing Back
Q3. Club Honours: Under 14 County and Feile nGael, Under 16 County, Under 21 County, 6 County Senior and 1 Munster Club, and All Ireland 7s and 11s.
Q4. When and where did you first play hurling (who was your coach, friend etc.) In school with Bro. Griffey and Patsy Fanning.
Q5. Childhood heroes: My Dad and Pat Ryan.
Q6. Your Biggest Fear? Spiders, seriously!!!!
Q7. What is your Favourite Food? Three day old stew with bread and real butter!
Q8. What is your Favourite Film? Rocky 3!!
Q9. What is your Favourite Music? Anything from the 70s!
Q10. What is your Favourite Holiday Destination? West of Ireland!
Q11. Best sporting event Watched/Witnessed: Liam Quinn’s solo run in the Munster Club final in 1988! …….EPIC!!
Q12. Best Mount Sion memory? Being behind the goal in the early eighties, pumping the balls back out to the seniors!
Q13. What has been your greatest moment in sport? Munster Finals in 2002.
Q14. What is your favourite Hurling ground? Walsh Park!
Q15. What celebrity do you think you most look like and why? Big Bird in Sesame Street…..I have his legs!!!
Q16. What is the toughest part of your sporting life? Injuries….they suck!!
Q17. Least memorable game and why? Dunloy 2002 I still get a pain in my stomach at the thought of it!!
Q18. If you were an animal, what kind would you be? A heron!
Q19. In your opinion what is the worst invention ever created? Why? Capitalism….just look around the globe!!
Q20. What is your secret skill? Taking flies out of mid air with a tea towel and a vicious whippety flick!!!
Q21. Who is your ideal date, why? Debs cause she gets me!
Q22. If there was a transfer market, what player would you like to see on the Waterford Panel? Why? None!
Q23. If you had 3 people around for dinner, who would they be and why? Tommy, Tony and Babsey Browne…..all for epic silliness!
Q24. Who is the best & worst dressed on your team, why? Witnessed some pretty snazzy styles in my time…..Liam Quinn and Philly Flynn (When he had hair) stick out in mind….so does Flan and Babs and the Bomb isn’t too shabby either, when it comes to the worst, I’m afraid I can’t get Jimmy (Polo Neck) Meaney out of my head. All others pale in comparison!!!
Q25. Who is the longest in the showers after training? It’s a toss-up between Paul Meaney and James Cuddihy but I’d say Mr Cuddihy is in front by a head!!!!
Q26. If you could go back in time, where would you go? Woodstock!!
Q27. If you could trade places with any other person for a week, famous or not famous, living or dead, real or fictional. with whom would it be? Why? Wild-e-Coyote….just to have a cut off the road runner!!
Q28. What rule would you change in the GAA and why? The rule that stops a man from tackling from behind. There was an art to it!!
Q29. Who do you admire most in Mount Sion and why? The men that were on the All Ireland winning team in 1959. I think sometimes that we forget how great those Mount Sion men were!!
Q30. Advise to younger players…. Don’t just depend on the training you do with your mentors, work hard on your own too. A little bit everyday can and will make all the differences both physically and mentally!!
Q31. In ten years time, I hope to be ……… As Content as I am now!!! The end!!!