Football hall of Fame?

[David McKeown]

The problem with a GAA hall fame is that we dont have the same level of individuals stats that they do in American Sports which makes it a lot harder to set any kind of criteria for whos in and whos not

[Son_of_Sam]

They have to have a song written about them?

From Connacht in my time 3 players stand out as legends. Mickey Kerins, Dermot Early and Willie Joe Padden.

But fellas like Donnellan and Joyce have all the bangles. Great players too no doubt but the other 3 were frontiersmen.

Two Mayomen so   

[Maigheo Abu]

All depends on how far back you can/want to go. As said Purcell of Galway but what about Ray Prendergast of Mayo?

[mylestheslasher]

Sorry Tyronies but Frank McGuigan would not make a list like this unless there were hundreds of people on it - no offence to the man. If the list had say 100 players on it from 125 years then Kerry would probably dominate the list with 50% of the players reflecting the fact that decade after decade they have had the best players. Cavan in 40's/50's along with Down in the 60's would contriute the vast majority from Ulster and Tyrone, Derry, Armagh etc would probably get 1 or 2 each. For what its worth I wouldn't suggest 1 Cavan player from the last 40 years to make such a list as it should be only really really superb footballers that have achieved greatness. Thats normally the way a hall of fame works.

How do you work that one out ?

List McGuigans achievements as a player and I bet I could list 20 Ulstermen that achieved more. Hall of fame has to be  about player achievements, thats my point.

[J70]

personally I think a player would need to have at LEAST 2 all stars to warrant consideration.

Hardly very fair when All Star awards, which are supposed to honour individual performance, are so tied to team achievements. Would Pat Spillane have all his if he had played his football for Carlow?