Ulster 25

[peterquaife]

Here goes. Same criteria as the other threads on Leinster and Connacht.

Your best 15 Ulster players from the last 25 years. (Roughly in their own positions.)

Mine are:

1.  Mickey McVeigh
2.  Tony Scullion
3.  Barry Owens
4. Kieran McKeever
5. Henry Downey
6. Kieran McGeeney
7. DJ Kane
8. Anthony Tohill
9. Paul McGrane
10. Brian McGuigan
11. Greg Blaney
12. James McCartan
13. Mickey Linden
14. Peter Canavan
15. Steven McDonnell

of course 5 sams what should we expect, Down 2 allirelands in the last 25 years = 5 players!
            Tyrone 3 All irelands, one final and 3 semifinals in the last 25 years = 2 players

2 all irelands without the aid of the back door

[rrhf]

Downs 2 coincided with the kingdom being on the wane,  feck me in 91 the played against Pat Spillane and Eoin Listen both over 40 - a joke. most Down men I know accept that.   Tyrones last 3 wins involve a fine Kerry team with multiple all ireland capability that simply cant and wont beat us.  Undoubtedly the first decade of the new millenium will be remembered by GAA historiams as even more significant than the 1970s so called golden era.  Lets put it another way a good kerry team normally wins sam but in the 70s they didnt get it all their own way yet they still dominated bigtime.  Step forward to 2009 and kick the dubs out of your equation and put Tyrone in, challenging the kingdoms powerful football, their slick pr machine and their animal supporters (sheehy) and replacing them at the top of the tree.  If I had one regret for the last decade is that so few people are intelligent enough to realise that they are living through history and there are so few intelligent analysts who can at least tell those people to remember where they were when Canavan scored that delicate daisycutter, when Mulligan scored the finest goal any living gael has been lucky to witness  or when wee Dooher rode Big Dara O Ses kockout clothesline shoulder to steer over the greatest point ever seen in an all ireland final. I was lucky enough that my da appreciated real class and took me along to see the great Kerry team, of the early 80s,  I suggest if we are unsure about the current players that we ask someone older and wiser and they will tell us.    

[Stall the Bailer]

Here is a list of all the Ulster Allstars of the last 25 years.
I have highlighted the ones who have won player of the year or have won 3 or more awards. They should be the ones on the cert list.

Armagh
Ger Houlihan (93),
Kieran McGeeney (99 00 02FOTY),
Diarmuid Marsden (99),
Oisin McConville (00 02),
Enda McNulty (02),
Aidan O'Rourke (02),
Paul McGrane (02 05),
Stephen McDonnell (02 03FOTY 05),
Francis Bellew (03),
Andy Mallon (05),
Rónán Clarke (06 08).

Down
Liam Austin (83),
Greg Blaney (83 91 94),
James McCartan (90 94),
Conor Deegan (91),
Barry Breen (91),
Ross Carr (91),
Michael Magill (94),
Paul Higgins (94),
D.J.Kane (94),
Greg McCartan (94),
Micky Linden (94FOTY),

Donegal
Martin McHugh (83 92),
Joyce McMullan (90),
Gary Walsh (92),
Matt Gallagher (92),
Martin Gavigan (92),
Anthony Molloy (92),
James McHugh (92),
Tony Boyle (92), J
ohn Joe Doherty (93),
Kevin Cassidy (02),
Adrian Sweeney (03),
Karl Lacey (06);

Tyrone
Eugene McKenna (84 86 89),
Frank McGuigan (84),
John Lynch (86),
Plunkett Donaghy (86),
Damian O'Hagan (86),
Peter Canavan (94 95FOTY 96 02 03 05),
Fay Devlin (95),
Finbar McConnell (96)
Stephen O'Neill (01 05 FOTY),
Cormac McAnallen (03),
Conor Gormley (03 05 08),
Phillip Jordan (03 05 08),
Sean Cavanagh (03 04 05 08 FOTY),
Brian Dooher (03 05 08),
Brian McGuigan (03),
Ryan McMenamin (05),
Eoin Mulligan (05),
Justin McMahon (08)
David Harte (08),
Enda McGinley (08),

Derry
Dermot McNicholl (84),
Tony Scullion (87 92 93 95),
Brian McGilligan (87 93),
Anthony Tohill (92 93 95 00),
Enda Gormley (92 93),
Johnny McGurk (93),
Henry Downey (93FOTY),
Gary Coleman (93),
Joe Brolly (96 97),
Seán Marty Lockhart (98),
Kieran McKeever (00),
Enda Muldoon (04),
Kevin McCloy (07),
Paddy Bradley (07),

Monaghan
Cathal Murray (85),
Eugene Hughes (85 88),
Ray McCarron (86),
Paddy Linden (88),
Tomás Freeman (07)

Cavan
Dermot McCabe (97),

Fermanagh
Barry Owens (04 06),
Martin McGrath (04),

[5 Sams]

Stall the Bailer...

Mickey Linden was player of the Year in 1994......for feck get your stats right will you

[eireogatron]

Clarke won young footballer of the year in 02, along with 2 all stars. this could merit his name in bold  - going by these parameters.

[Stall the Bailer]

5 sams - i updated Mickey's award for 94.

Disclaimer There could be other mistakes as well.

eireogatron - I only mentioned footballer of the year and not young player of the year. I have no doubt Ronan will add another award or two to his total in the near future.

[talktothehand]

Paddy Bradley 2nd highest scorer in Ulster at the minute and is odds on to overtake Oisin and no inclusion?

and he's won what? no sean cavanagh? player of the year, young player of the year. 3 sams!!

[nrico2006]

Cormac won young player in 2001.

[talktothehand]

apologies