Best all-round gaelic footballer

[maddog]

How many players have won All Stars as a forward and defender?

Nudie Hughes

Graham Geraghty
Peter Harte as well

[tiempo]

15 Rian O'Neills v 15 Graham Geraghtys, be some tussle!

[imtommygunn]

How many players have won All Stars as a forward and defender?

Nudie Hughes

Graham Geraghty
Peter Harte as well

Anthony McGurk - he may have been the first one?

rian O'Neill is begging to read like Chuck Norris on this forum 

[Wildweasel74]

I seen Glass from U16, Hogan, Minor
Derry Senior.  play corner Bck, Full bck, Midfield, Wing Forward. Center forward and Full Forward. So I say he one of the few can play any position on the Field. Think Brendan Rodgers be the same.

[armaghniac]

rian O'Neill is begging to read like Chuck Norris on this forum 

https://x.com/officialgaa/status/1649850540086501377

[seafoid]

I'd argue the case on a lot of defenders eg Sean Kelly. Can you imagine him in the full forward line being bottled up and being pushed out from goal and still be expected to get a yard and score?

Like Shane Walsh from a skill set is hard to match. Fully both feet and drifts out too. Conroy is a decent all-rounder as he has decent footwork in tight spaces. Can move well for a big man as well.

And being from Kildare I'd always put a mention in for Johnny Doyle who was a whippet who shone at midfield, half forward and the inside line. In the modern game him coming from the half backs and swinging over would be solid. And again had vision and an engine.

Johnny Doyle is a legend.

[mrdeeds]

rian O'Neill is begging to read like Chuck Norris on this forum 

https://x.com/officialgaa/status/1649850540086501377

Larry Reilly

[Gael85]

How many players have won All Stars as a forward and defender?

Nudie Hughes

Graham Geraghty
Peter Harte as well

Ryan McHugh

[SouthOfThe Bann]

Emmet Bolton

[Muck Savage]

How many players have won All Stars as a forward and defender?

Nudie Hughes

Sean Lowry
Graham Geraghty
Peter Harte as well

[fullback2023]

How many players have won All Stars as a forward and defender?

8 in all if I've counted right.

Paddy Moriarty (Corner Forward 1972, Centre Back 1977)
Anthony McGurk (Corner Forward 1973, Centre Back 1975)
Ger Power (Half Back 1975-76, Half Forward 1978-80, Corner Forward 1986)
Sean Lowry (Full Forward 1979, Centre Back 1982)
Nudie Hughes (Corner Back 1979, Corner Forward 1985-86)
Graham Geraghty (Half Back 1994, Full Forward 1999)
Ryan McHugh (Half Back 2016, Half Forward 2018)
Peter Harte (Half Forward 2016, Half Back 2021)

Another 13 have won All Stars at midfield and in either the forwards or the backs.

Ger Power, Paudie Lynch, Eugene McKenna and Aidan O'Shea all won All Stars in three different lines. Half back, half forward and full forward for Power, full back, half back and midfield for Lynch, midfield, half forward and full forward for McKenna and O'Shea.

[Truthsayer]

How many players have won All Stars as a forward and defender?

8 in all if I've counted right.

Paddy Moriarty (Corner Forward 1972, Centre Back 1977)
Anthony McGurk (Corner Forward 1973, Centre Back 1975)
Ger Power (Half Back 1975-76, Half Forward 1978-80, Corner Forward 1986)
Sean Lowry (Full Forward 1979, Centre Back 1982)
Nudie Hughes (Corner Back 1979, Corner Forward 1985-86)
Graham Geraghty (Half Back 1994, Full Forward 1999)
Ryan McHugh (Half Back 2016, Half Forward 2018)
Peter Harte (Half Forward 2016, Half Back 2021)

Another 13 have won All Stars at midfield and in either the forwards or the backs.

Ger Power, Paudie Lynch, Eugene McKenna and Aidan O'Shea all won All Stars in three different lines. Half back, half forward and full forward for Power, full back, half back and midfield for Lynch, midfield, half forward and full forward for McKenna and O'Shea.

Brilliant facts there 👏 thanks

[gallsman]

Cavanagh should have got one at FF in '08 but they moved him to left half.

[Truthsayer]

Cavanagh should have got one at FF in '08 but they moved him to left half.

A lot of that has happened right enough. Brother Colm got one at full back one year as far as I recall, Steven McDonnell in the half forward line way back to Bomber Liston in centre half forward as Frank McGuigan was full forward. Two out and out number 14s...

[Orior]

I thought we already had a best all-rounder thread?

https://gaaboard.com/board/index.php?topic=3938.0