Was talking to a friend about the Meath Full Forward line of the early 90s (91 I think) of O'Rourke, Stafford and Flynn. We agreed it was one of the great lines in GAA.
Any other great contenders?
Quote from: southdown on November 25, 2011, 01:22:33 PM
Was talking to a friend about the Meath Full Forward line of the early 90s (91 I think) of O'Rourke, Stafford and Flynn. We agreed it was one of the great(est) line in GAA.
Any other great contenders?
Thought some of your grammar needed a bit of correcting there.
"Get thon useless fat f**ker off before we're bate!!!"
Osborn, King and Megran. Or Crosby, Stills and Nash. Or Crosby, Stills and Young. No...its Emerson, Lake and Palmer but as sure as hell it aint that duo from Meath along with Leitrims O Rourke.
Or "The longer ye stay in the dressing room...the longer ye stay in the championship!"
McGurk, Downey, Coleman
Tohill & McGilligan
2 great lines!!
Quote from: brokencrossbar1 on November 25, 2011, 01:28:33 PM
"Get thon useless fat f**ker off before we're bate!!!"
:D :D :D
Quote from: southsidejohnny on November 25, 2011, 01:30:02 PM
Or "The longer ye stay in the dressing room...the longer ye stay in the championship!"
Quote from: southsidejohnny on November 25, 2011, 01:30:02 PM
Or "The longer ye stay in the dressing room...the longer ye stay in the championship!"
Ha ha craicer wan!!!
In regarding to everyone playing soccer in Derry City and only a small number of clubs playing GAA, a county coach shouting to his team of players at an underage games a few years back
"Them boys don't play FUTBALL, them boys play SOCCER!"
Feck that. I saw the thread title and came in to nominate O'Rourke, Stafford, Flynn. It'll have to be Murphy, Geraghty, A.N. Other then.
Infairness any line that contained Canavan was a pretty amazing line.
Front Lawn-God-Black Ice McBride
All shite except The Chosen One but he made up fo them.
Hardy was it not something like:
Murphy - Geraghty - Mark O'Reilly(or someone else who clearly wasn't going to stay there)
More or less, Juice. It was Evan Kelly in AIF 99, but Evan was scoring his points from outside the 45 and stopping goals at the other end.
A good Tullamore man.
Quote from: southdown on November 25, 2011, 01:22:33 PM
Was talking to a friend about the Meath Full Forward line of the early 90s (91 I think) of O'Rourke, Stafford and Flynn. We agreed it was one of the great lines in GAA.
Any other great contenders?
Yer Ole balls Southdown ! Flynn dancing around like flatley, O rourke tucking the defenders arm in and looking for a foul.
The kerry full forward line was much more potent. John Egan, Bomber, Sheehy.
Down 50 years ago - Sean O'Neill, James McCartan, Paddy Doherty.
Quote from: Onlooker on November 25, 2011, 02:30:07 PM
Down 50 years ago - Sean O'Neill, James McCartan, Paddy Doherty.
weren't bad 20 years ago either...
Linden, Withnell, James Jnr
From House of Pain paraphrased:
A Mayo training session started without footballs, for some reason, so the manager decided they should start the drills anyway, with imaginary footballs. As the players started catching and passing the imaginary balls the manager noticed 'Fat Larry' Finnerty running back towards the dressing-room.
The manager shouted 'Finnerty where the hell are you off to?'.
Larry said: 'To get my gloves, the ball is wet.'
The Galway half back line of Pete Finnerty, Tony Keady and Gerry McInerney would take some beating and might just still userp the Clare one of Doyle, McMahon and Daly, but only just.
Quote from: Onlooker on November 25, 2011, 02:30:07 PM
Down 50 years ago - Sean O'Neill, James McCartan, Paddy Doherty.
You beat me to it ;)
Larry Reilly.
Full back line of Paudie O Sé, Mick Lyons and Sylvie Linnane.
That s the line Charlie Nelligan would have loved to have played in front of him.
Any dicussion that omits Waterford's Hell's Kitchen is....well....
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John Doyle, Mick Maher and Kieran Carey
I know this is a football thread ........apologies.......but I love any opportunity to post that pic
McDonnell
Clarke
McConville ;D ;D ;D
Wrong football I know but still......
"For Tony to admit he is an alcoholic took an awful lot of bottle."
Ian Wright, Arsenal and England team-mate, 1996
Quote from: Shamrock Shore on November 25, 2011, 03:45:40 PM
Any dicussion that omits Waterford's Hell's Kitchen is....well....
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John Doyle, Mick Maher and Kieran Carey
I know this is a football thread ........apologies.......but I love any opportunity to post that pic
Did Tipp not have a Hell's Kitchen as well? Edit - John Doyle was Tipp!
You nearly have to go back a few years because positions dont mean as much as they used to anymore.
Martin Furlong
or
Drumm, Moran, O'Neill
or
Sheehy, Liston, Egan
Donegal half-back line:
A Thompson, K Lacey, K Cassidy; N Gallagher, R Kavanagh; M McHugh, M Hegarty, R Bradley; P McBrearty, M Murphy,
Quote from: muppet on November 25, 2011, 03:59:14 PM
Donegal half-back line:
A Thompson, K Lacey, K Cassidy; N Gallagher, R Kavanagh; M McHugh, M Hegarty, R Bradley; P McBrearty, M Murphy,
who were the other two ?
P McGrath, N McGee, F McGlynn; A Thompson, K Lacey, K Cassidy; R Kavanagh, C Toye; M McHugh, D Walsh, R Bradley; E McGee, M Murphy, C McFadden.
well it may be biased but i always thought
rinbow, ryan and finn were a serious half back line in 1998.
finn was very solid and the the otehr two got the headlines.
Quote from: fearglasmor on November 25, 2011, 03:52:24 PM
You nearly have to go back a few years because positions dont mean as much as they used to anymore.
Martin Furlong
or
Drumm, Moran, O'Neillor
Sheehy, Liston, Egan
The lads behind them weren't bad either!!!!
O'Driscoll, The Doc, Kelleher
Quote from: 5 Sams on November 25, 2011, 04:16:55 PM
Quote from: fearglasmor on November 25, 2011, 03:52:24 PM
You nearly have to go back a few years because positions dont mean as much as they used to anymore.
Martin Furlong
or
Drumm, Moran, O'Neillor
Sheehy, Liston, Egan
The lads behind them weren't bad either!!!!
O'Driscoll, The Doc, Kelleher
Was O'Driscoll Gay?
Quote from: GerryFromDerry on November 25, 2011, 04:19:36 PM
Quote from: 5 Sams on November 25, 2011, 04:16:55 PM
Quote from: fearglasmor on November 25, 2011, 03:52:24 PM
You nearly have to go back a few years because positions dont mean as much as they used to anymore.
Martin Furlong
or
Drumm, Moran, O'Neillor
Sheehy, Liston, Egan
The lads behind them weren't bad either!!!!
O'Driscoll, The Doc, Kelleher
Was O'Driscoll Gay?
That's the one ;)
Canavan O'Neill Mulligan
Were pretty un-markable in 2005.
Harte Gormley Jordan
weren't so bad in 2008. Not the greatest hb line ever, but still decent.
Scanlon D. O'Se
Quote from: seafoid on November 25, 2011, 04:07:22 PM
P McGrath, N McGee, F McGlynn; A Thompson, K Lacey, K Cassidy; R Kavanagh, C Toye; M McHugh, D Walsh, R Bradley; E McGee, M Murphy, C McFadden.
Jim is making application for Cass's inclusion in the team to be deleted from the history books.
His point against Kildare is to be allocated to Karl Lacey instead.
Hard to argue with:
Sheehy Bomber Egan or
O Neill Mc Cartan Doherty or
O Rourke Stafford Flynn or
O Neill Canavan Mulligan
I must include
P.J Duke John Joe Simon Deignan
McKeever, Scullion, McCusker were useful.
Good hurling lines:
Gardiner, Curran , O'hAlpine
Most Kilkenny lines.
McInerney Keady Finnerty Galway AI 80's
Quote from: Onlooker on November 25, 2011, 02:30:07 PM
Down 50 years ago - Sean O'Neill, James McCartan, Paddy Doherty.
End of discussion - solid gold all along the line.
Was Jack O'Shea / Sean Walsh the perfect midfield line ?
65
And Seanie McMahon hits it over the bar from out beyond the 65
"Kerry supporters are the roughest type of f**king animals you could ever deal with" now can't say if it's true however that was great "line" by Páidí Ó Sé.
Down FB line Lavery,Murphy,Rice in the 60s, we will never see their like again
Quote from: Pangurban on November 26, 2011, 01:22:29 AM
Down FB line Lavery,Murphy,Rice in the 60s, we will never see their like again
+1
-Totally agree, its easy to pick out the marque forward lines we had but we will certainly not see anything like them in this current era for Down football Pangurban sadly :(
When I hear the name 'Stafford' I instantly think 'O'Rourke & Flynn'.
They were a unit, a troika if you will.
The most iconic FF line in history.
Greatest in history is a very high accolade and its only for that nitpick reason that I'd question stafford. An exceptional free taker and finisher in space, he was fairly markable. He tended to benefit from the opposition's best markers picking up the other 2.
Johnstone, Mooney and O Brien. BMW. Kings of Leon. Big Tom, Larry Cunningham and Daniel O Donnell.
Maxi Dick & Twink .....
or
Javkie Healy Rae
In 2008 - Harte/Gormley/Jordan were in some form as the summer progressed.
1999 - Murphy/Geraghty/Curtis were unstoppable. Replace Curtis with Giles and it was a dream FF line.
Quote from: ONeill on November 26, 2011, 08:59:40 PM
In 2008 - Harte/Gormley/Jordan were in some form as the summer progressed.
1999 - Murphy/Geraghty/Curtis were unstoppable. Replace Curtis with Giles and it was a dream FF line.
giles in corner forward??
Probably being a tad biased here but I think the best half backline would be : Neil mcgee, karl lacey, paddy mcgrath, frank mcglynn, kevin cassidy, anthony thompson, neil gallagher, christy toye, mark mchugh, ryan bradley, michael hegarty, michael murphy & patrick mcbrearty :)
Haha you actually made me laugh out loud there Donegal Abu
Quote from: thewobbler on November 26, 2011, 09:11:04 PM
Haha you actually made me laugh out loud there Donegal Abu
If ye cant beat the haters... join them for the craic :D
Quote from: orchard 8195 on November 26, 2011, 09:04:04 PM
Quote from: ONeill on November 26, 2011, 08:59:40 PM
In 2008 - Harte/Gormley/Jordan were in some form as the summer progressed.
1999 - Murphy/Geraghty/Curtis were unstoppable. Replace Curtis with Giles and it was a dream FF line.
giles in corner forward??
Giles could have played anywhere in the forward unit. As a roving CF I wouldn't have liked to be the CB marking him. No doubting CHF suited him most but a Giles-Geraghy-Murphy line in 1999 wouldn't set much better. I know he played CHB in club football but did he play in defence against Armagh minors in 1992?
No, he was no. 15 on that team. There was, as you say, a widely held view that he should be CHB for Meath, shared by myself until I witnessed it tried in a couple of qualifiers in one of those years when we were always playing qualifiers against Fermanagh and Monaghan or Cavan. It was a disaster. Trevor wasn't a defender, as it turned out.
But your proposed FF line of Murphy, Geraghty, Giles makes as much sense as Murphy, Geraghty and anyone else because that's the way it worked for that few years.
Murphy, Geraghty and Ray Magee could have been the greatest FF line in history!
Suarez, Terry & Eugene Terre Blanche. Never a black mark against them. Always played white to the final whistle. ;)
Bob Mick & Terry
In Armagh 02 everyone looks at the ful lforward line, but I think the hb line were exceptional that year. Obviously McGeeney and O'Rourke were recognised with Allstar awards, but McCann was as good as both that year, I felt.
I remember hearing Geraghty had a trial with an Aussie rules side, and at the training session he skinned every aboriginal player on the other team and scored a sensational over, and the coach started shouting at him "the cones Graeme,go round the cones you idiot"
I don't get it.
When jokes go wrong (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7fX3r77VOxg)
Older than most on here, but i would go with Purcell, Stockwell and Commins. Unreal. its a pity they were born in Tuam and not Castlebar!
Gene Sherry, Gerry McCarville and Fergus Caulfield - Monaghans (all from Scotstown as well) Full back line in mid-late 80's.
Tough, tough men - not sure they'd like playing the nippy forwards now. But for certain the nippy forwards wouldn't like it either :D
Johnny McGurk, Henry Downey and Gary Coleman. Great half back line for Derry in 1993. Great defenders and also fantastic at counter attacking.
Any current contenders?
Dont know if it has been said, but Tommy walsh, cooper and donaghy was some full forward line.
McDonnell, Clarke and Clark would be a great front line for Armagh. Pity it hasn't happened.
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O'Neill,McCartan and Doherty would take a bit of beating.
Sheehy, Liston, Power
23 All-Ireland medals
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Other decent Kerry ones since:
Moynihan, O'Flaherty, Breen
Cooper, Donaghy, Russell
O Sé, McCarthy, O'Sullivan
O Sé, Moynihan, O'Sullivan
Quote from: Thastheball on November 30, 2011, 12:52:23 PM
Best I have seen in my time was Egan, Liston and Sheehy
+1 Without a doubt!
Put manners on the Kerry FF line in 2002 J McNulty, E McNulty, F Bellew
That Kerry forward line has it in terms of everything.
Has to be Canavan; O'Neill; Mulligan - I've never see a better full forward line in real life or on Kerry Golden Years Tapes!!
Quote from: Radda bout yeee on December 02, 2011, 11:36:18 AM
Has to be Canavan; O'Neill; Mulligan - I've never see a better full forward line in real life or on Kerry Golden Years Tapes!!
Having seen both in real life, if I had to choose it would be Sheehy, Liston, Egan.
Quote from: rrhf on December 01, 2011, 06:46:20 AM
That Kerry forward line has it in terms of everything.
They weren't up against much.
Quote from: fearglasmor on December 02, 2011, 12:15:35 PM
Quote from: Radda bout yeee on December 02, 2011, 11:36:18 AM
Has to be Canavan; O'Neill; Mulligan - I've never see a better full forward line in real life or on Kerry Golden Years Tapes!!
Having seen both in real life, if I had to choose it would be Sheehy, Liston, Egan.
Well I never saw the Kerry lads in real life but different types of football tbh!
Maurice Fitzgerald was the best full forward line I ever saw.
Closely followed by Canavan.
Ironically maurice probably wouldn't get a ball playing in the modern era
Quote from: rrhf on December 03, 2011, 07:58:30 AM
Ironically maurice probably wouldn't get a ball playing in the modern era
Are you joking? Bryan Sheehan just got an All-Star at midfield. Based on that Maurice would probably have been POTY in the modern era.
Quote from: rrhf on December 03, 2011, 07:58:30 AM
Ironically maurice probably wouldn't get a ball playing in the modern era
:D
Some of Maurice's best performances were as a midfielder. He could pluck kickouts out of the sky with the best of them:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b5jXky5RGSk (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b5jXky5RGSk)
Quote from: muppet on December 03, 2011, 09:36:24 AM
Quote from: rrhf on December 03, 2011, 07:58:30 AM
Ironically maurice probably wouldn't get a ball playing in the modern era
Are you joking? Bryan Sheehan just got an All-Star at midfield. Based on that Maurice would probably have been POTY in the modern era.
Why allow yourself to be reeled in muppet, I had you for smarter than that? Maurice in is pomp was the best I ever saw, shame he played on a Kerry team that wasn't quite up to it for so long, a bit like Canavan in Tyrone.
James McCartan Ross Carr Greg Blaney....Two All Irelands !!!
gary mason greg blaney and ross carr you mean
No, i dont
Quote from: Jinxy on December 02, 2011, 12:42:18 PM
Quote from: rrhf on December 01, 2011, 06:46:20 AM
That Kerry forward line has it in terms of everything.
They weren't up against much.
yeah...Meath in '86 being a prime example.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IYEMa465re0
C J Haughey , R A Burke, P EE Flynn
Priceless
Dont know about Charlie, but his brother "Jock" was supposed to be handy. Won an all ireland with Dublin in 1958.
Quote from: Naomh Pol CLG on December 04, 2011, 09:22:07 PM
James McCartan Ross Carr Greg Blaney....Two All Irelands !!!
McCartan played in the corner in 91
91 half forward line was carr blaney mason
94 was carr blaney mc cartan
this is a great topic
love the two Down offerings o'neill mccartan doherty and lavery murphy rice
Kerry's 1981 team FF sheehy liston egan (p spillane on for egan) is the best I ever seen, I preferred Ger Power in the half forward line rather than when he moved up to full for 84,85 and 86. Micko must have had it tough, "hmmm will i start john egan or ger power top of the left today? Ah feck it- egan's only 5'8" I'll stick him in the corner..."
their 1980 HB line p o se t kennelly g o'keefe takes some beating too
I think a whole new thread is required for best midfield, but tohill mcgiiligan was unreal
Quote from: heganboy on December 15, 2011, 01:27:52 PM
this is a great topic
love the two Down offerings o'neill mccartan doherty and lavery murphy rice
Kerry's 1981 team FF sheehy liston egan (p spillane on for egan) is the best I ever seen, I preferred Ger Power in the half forward line rather than when he moved up to full for 84,85 and 86. Micko must have had it tough, "hmmm will i start john egan or ger power top of the left today? Ah feck it- egan's only 5'8" I'll stick him in the corner..."
their 1980 HB line p o se t kennelly g o'keefe takes some beating too
I think a whole new thread is required for best midfield, but tohill mcgiiligan was unreal
An fear laidir
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and any one of 16 other guys he partnered in midfield for Kerry..
I'll see your Dara and raise you a
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The Killer, The Pillar, The Thriller.
End of......
Magilligan and tohill for me. Individually, neither was in the class of D o,shea or jack, but they were the best midfield partnership I have ever seen, strength, ability, guile and hunger in abundance. If derry could have kept them together for longer I'm sure the oak leafs would have had more of Sam.
Quote from: Rasharkin Gael on December 16, 2011, 07:30:01 PM
Magilligan and tohill for me. Individually, neither was in the class of D o,shea or jack, but they were the best midfield partnership I have ever seen, strength, ability, guile and hunger in abundance. If derry could have kept them together for longer I'm sure the oak leafs would have had more of Sam.
Tohill was a more complete footballer IMHO.
Quote from: Rasharkin Gael on December 16, 2011, 07:30:01 PM
Magilligan and tohill for me. Individually, neither was in the class of D o,shea or jack, but they were the best midfield partnership I have ever seen, strength, ability, guile and hunger in abundance. If derry could have kept them together for longer I'm sure the oak leafs would have had more of Sam.
If only..
Quote from: Rasharkin Gael on December 16, 2011, 07:30:01 PM
Magilligan and tohill for me. Individually, neither was in the class of D o,shea or jack, but they were the best midfield partnership I have ever seen, strength, ability, guile and hunger in abundance. If derry could have kept them together for longer I'm sure the oak leafs would have had more of Sam.
Granny, balls, granda etc
k hughes, geezer, and andy mccann- best half back line in my lifetime. geezer was the anchor and the boys raided for scores up the wings and fed the then trademark diagonal ball to stevie and oisin. simple but effective
Tohill and McGilligan my hole. One All-Ireland. Sure didn't Deegan and Greg McCartan destroy them when it really mattered in '94.