Who's your GAA cult hero?

[Taylor]

Plunkett Donaghy 

[GetOverTheBar]

Audi Hamilton

Still knocking about the Clarkes yet too.

[BennyCake]

Francie.

[brokencrossbar1]

Houlie rattling the onion bag especially his 93 run when we played 6 and got to and Ulster Semi and Derry played 5 and won Sam!

Marked him on my championship debut In '94. I was a scrawny 18 year old and he made a dummy out of me and I got the curly finger at half time. Didn't forget it and melted him a few months later in the league .... didn't make any difference to the game but I got great satisfaction out of it! 

Fran McMahon and Brian Mullins....loved my hallions round the middle!

[BennyCake]

Geoffrey McGonigle and Brian McGilligan were some boyos.

Definitely worth a mention.

[seafoid]

Sylvie Linnane. The way they talk about him in Tipperary. That's not easily achieved.

[tonto1888]

Houlie rattling the onion bag especially his 93 run when we played 6 and got to and Ulster Semi and Derry played 5 and won Sam!

Marked him on my championship debut In '94. I was a scrawny 18 year old and he made a dummy out of me and I got the curly finger at half time. Didn't forget it and melted him a few months later in the league .... didn't make any difference to the game but I got great satisfaction out of it! 

Fran McMahon and Brian Mullins....loved my hallions round the middle!

Let Fran in Chicago many years ago. He would be friend it with my cousin Kieran McNally over there. Nice guy

[brokencrossbar1]

Houlie rattling the onion bag especially his 93 run when we played 6 and got to and Ulster Semi and Derry played 5 and won Sam!

Marked him on my championship debut In '94. I was a scrawny 18 year old and he made a dummy out of me and I got the curly finger at half time. Didn't forget it and melted him a few months later in the league .... didn't make any difference to the game but I got great satisfaction out of it! 

Fran McMahon and Brian Mullins....loved my hallions round the middle!

Let Fran in Chicago many years ago. He would be friend it with my cousin Kieran McNally over there. Nice guy

McNally that played with him for Armagh?  I remember watching the likes of those 2, Peter Raff, Stevenson, Joey Donnelly, Noel Marley et al back in the mid 80's. I have to say maybe it's the eyes of a boy but they always seemed more like 'men' then county players now. A bit more hewn round the edges, harder in a 'life' harder kinda way. The strength of men who worked as opposed to lifted weights. As I said maybe it's the eyes of a child but the seemed 'bigger'.

[BennyCake]

Yes I would agree with that bcb1. Those men from the 70's, 80's and early 90's, that you watch growing up, they'd be maybe a decade or more younger than i am now! Most of the players now most seem like teenagers (a lot are). And I don't think it's just a case of me getting older either.

Same with the soccer too. Followed United, and players like Mark Hughes, Bruce, Schmeichel, Cantona, Robson. They just seemed so much older and mature than players today.

[imtommygunn]

If you watch games back the boys from those eras had legs like tree trunks. You don't see that any more (except for Quigley from Fermanagh lol).

[Angelo]

If you watch games back the boys from those eras had legs like tree trunks. You don't see that any more (except for Quigley from Fermanagh lol).

What?

The legs of GAA players today are absolutely massive in comparison of those in bygone eras.

[APM]

Was scrolling through some old posts and came across this thread. 

Somehow Johnny Pilkington came into my head and his fondness for 3 or 4 pints the night before a big game. 

[Newbridge Exile]

Mick Lyons for me

[fearbrags]

Brendan Lynskey

[Dreadnought]

At home in Cavan, has to be Larry Reilly and Damien O'Reilly. Outside of there, Geoffrey McGonagle and Sambo McNaughton