Rewriting statistics the Down way

[thewobbler]

Was chatting about Down's arrival from nowhere on the way home yesterday, and I'd think Down are the first team to play in an All Ireland final in which:

1.   No member of their panel has won a Provincial Championship medal.
2.   No member of their panel has been nominated for an All Star Award.
3.   No member of their panel has won an All Star Award.

Can anyone verify or repute the above? I'd definitely say numbers one and two are first timers, not so sure on the third.

Probably has to go down as the most meteoric rise in the history of the game.

[Farrandeelin]

I posted sometime last year that Down generally come out of nowhere to win AIs. Seems like this could be the year that ye literally have COME OUT OF NOWHERE!! (Apart from Co. Cown of course)

[whiskeysteve]

Coulter never get an all star nomination?

[5 Sams]

Coulter never get an all star nomination?

The last Down footballer to get an All Star nomination was Shane Mulholland

[bcarrier]

Coulter never get an all star nomination?

The last Down footballer to get an All Star nomination was Shane Mulholland

Excellent quiz question there 5 Sams.

Cant see a previous allstar winner on Donegal 92 team

[thewobbler]

Martin McHugh in 83 and Joyce McMullan in 90.

[bcarrier]

Yep.

[blanketattack]

I don't think Dublin in '74 had any previous All-Stars or provincial medals

[thewobbler]

I'd imagine the whole Dublin team of 1974 had Provincial medals!

[bcarrier]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GAA_All_Stars_Awards_winners_%28football%29

[ross4life]

how many of these Down players have Provincial runners up medals?  2003 v Tyrone was the last final can't be many of those players left?

[red hander]

Was chatting about Down's arrival from nowhere on the way home yesterday, and I'd think Down are the first team to play in an All Ireland final in which:

1.   No member of their panel has won a Provincial Championship medal.
2.   No member of their panel has been nominated for an All Star Award.
3.   No member of their panel has won an All Star Award.

Can anyone verify or repute the above? I'd definitely say numbers one and two are first timers, not so sure on the third.

Probably has to go down as the most meteoric rise in the history of the game.

Not trying to be a smartass here, but meteors don't rise, they fall

[armaghniac]

Not trying to be a smartass here, but meteors don't rise, they fall

Your knowledge must be astronomical.

[5 Sams]

Was chatting about Down's arrival from nowhere on the way home yesterday, and I'd think Down are the first team to play in an All Ireland final in which:

1.   No member of their panel has won a Provincial Championship medal.
2.   No member of their panel has been nominated for an All Star Award.
3.   No member of their panel has won an All Star Award.

Can anyone verify or repute the above? I'd definitely say numbers one and two are first timers, not so sure on the third.

Probably has to go down as the most meteoric rise in the history of the game.

Not trying to be a smartass here, but meteors don't rise, they fall

Do pedantic hoors rise or fall??

[bcarrier]

how many of these Down players have Provincial runners up medals?  2003 v Tyrone was the last final can't be many of those players left?

Dan Gordon, Benny Coulter, Ronan Murtagh