TG4 - Best Footballer: 1984-2009

[botman]

Amazingly 2 people voted for Ciaran Whelan. 

If you're up there and you can hear me - please save me Superman.

[Croí na hÉireann]

Mikey Sheehy for me

[TacadoirArdMhacha]

Went for Canavan just ahead of Fitzgerald as Canavan didn't have the same quality of players around him but still produced the highest levels of quality. Only going from about the mid 90s though. Declan Browne and Paul McGrane would both have been well worthy of making this list

[Minder]

It's ridiculous that Greg Blaney isn't on this list

[eireogatron]

lists like these are designed to divide opinion. I went for Tohill but there are glaring omissions here too.

Asking for THE best footballer is like asking whats your favourite episode of Coronation St - theres just too many pick an outright winner!!

[GBXII]

Alan Brogan has been a better footballer than Whelan...

[give her dixie]

To be honest, it's between Canavan and Fitzgearld.
Blaney not been on the list is a shame all the same.
Canavan will probably get the nod over Maurice, as he
was without a doubt, the best we have seen in that period.
From a minor in '88, winning a AI vocational the same year,
right up to another AI win in '05, he was always sublime.
5 All Irelands in 17 years will also ensure that he will be
selected as the best footballer between '84 and '09.

Just my opinion though...............

[tyrone86]

Well Jacko is the only guy to win 2 player of the year awards in the timeframe - there's your winner.

Edit: That was the Texaco award, Trevor Giles has 2 All Star footballer of the year awards as well

[mayogodhelpus@gmail.com]

I don't understand how Ciaran Whelan is on this list.

[Donnellys Hollow]

Whelan is a very questionable on alright. From the same county, I'd have John O'Leary and Barney Rock in front of him.

[longrunsthefox]

Maurize Fitz for me too... sublime, natural talent.

[blewuporstuffed]

To be honest, it's between Canavan and Fitzgearld.
Blaney not been on the list is a shame all the same.
Canavan will probably get the nod over Maurice, as he
was without a doubt, the best we have seen in that period.
From a minor in '88, winning a AI vocational the same year,
right up to another AI win in '05, he was always sublime.
5 All Irelands in 17 years will also ensure that he will be
selected as the best footballer between '84 and '09.

Just my opinion though...............

would agree with that, canavan, just ahead of maurice fitz, but the omission of greg blaney from the list is a strange one.would always have rated him higher that linden

[saffron sam2]

For a purist like myself, Fitzgerald is out in front of Canavan. Granted that Canavan was a superb talent, but to me he has always been a bit of a flawed genius.

There is the patchy disciplinary record, the rumours of broken jaws, the 5 year hiatus from'97 to '01 where he may have cost Tyrone at least one All-Ireland, the inability to consistently get the better of Kieran McKeever (a man who is nowhere near the top 25 list according to TG4) and the nagging suspicion that the GAA hierarchy contrived to hand him his first Celtic cross in '03.

No such suspicions with the tanned Cahirciveen man.

He gets my vote.

[An Fhairche Abu]

For a purist like myself, Fitzgerald is out in front of Canavan. Granted that Canavan was a superb talent, but to me he has always been a bit of a flawed genius.

There is the patchy disciplinary record, the rumours of broken jaws, the 5 year hiatus from'97 to '01 where he may have cost Tyrone at least one All-Ireland, the inability to consistently get the better of Kieran McKeever (a man who is nowhere near the top 25 list according to TG4) and the nagging suspicion that the GAA hierarchy contrived to hand him his first Celtic cross in '03.

No such suspicions with the tanned Cahirciveen man.

He gets my vote.

What? How do you make this out?

[bcarrier]

Players from the 1984-86 three in a row Kerry team not getting enough recognition - practically no votes for these ...it seems that individuals who have stood out in relatively poor teams in       mid - late 90s (ie Canavan & M Fitz) are getting the highest votes. Canavan has couple of influential cameos in noughties but was a shadow of the 95 PTG at that time. I wouldnt dispute their brillance and both had relatively long careers which peaked in the middle of the period under consideration but for sustained excellence throughout 20 of these 25 years I have opted for Mickey Linden. Darragh O Se would have been my next choice.