Football All-Stars 2014

[blanketattack]

There's a huge overreaction to Donaghy's AllStar. If Donaghy had played 5 1/2 games of which he had a huge influence in 2 1/2 games and was average in 2 games there would have been no fuss, so removing the 2 average games from the equation shouldn't cause a fuss either.
In 1994 John Leahy won an AllStar without playing a single minute of CShip. In 1983 Colm O'Rourke won an AllStar from 2 games played, one of which was a 3-9 to 0-3 loss. Jack O'Shea also won an AllStar that year from 2 games played.
I'm sure players have won AllStars from only one game played.

[mrdeeds]

There's a huge overreaction to Donaghy's AllStar. If Donaghy had played 5 1/2 games of which he had a huge influence in 2 1/2 games and was average in 2 games there would have been no fuss, so removing the 2 average games from the equation shouldn't cause a fuss either.
In 1994 John Leahy won an AllStar without playing a single minute of CShip. In 1983 Colm O'Rourke won an AllStar from 2 games played, one of which was a 3-9 to 0-3 loss. Jack O'Shea also won an AllStar that year from 2 games played.
I'm sure players have won AllStars from only one game played.

And that's why it's a joke.

[seafoid]

There's a huge overreaction to Donaghy's AllStar. If Donaghy had played 5 1/2 games of which he had a huge influence in 2 1/2 games and was average in 2 games there would have been no fuss, so removing the 2 average games from the equation shouldn't cause a fuss either.
In 1994 John Leahy won an AllStar without playing a single minute of CShip. In 1983 Colm O'Rourke won an AllStar from 2 games played, one of which was a 3-9 to 0-3 loss. Jack O'Shea also won an AllStar that year from 2 games played.
I'm sure players have won AllStars from only one game played.

And that's why it's a joke.

not if there are only 3 matches in the year that count, as this year

[Zulu]

Why did only 3 games count?

[mrdeeds]

So essentialy it's players of August and September then.

[seafoid]

Why did only 3 games count?

2 semis and the final
The rest of the counties (with the exception of Armagh maybe ) were just making up the numbers
The Dubs waltzed through Leinster, Mayo had an easy run in connacht etc 

[Syferus]

Why did only 3 games count?

2 semis and the final
The rest of the counties (with the exception of Armagh maybe ) were just making up the numbers
The Dubs waltzed through Leinster, Mayo had an easy run in connacht etc

Only against the flopping fisheens.

[Zulu]

Why did only 3 games count?

2 semis and the final
The rest of the counties (with the exception of Armagh maybe ) were just making up the numbers
The Dubs waltzed through Leinster, Mayo had an easy run in connacht etc

So we should only take into account the games involving 'challengers' and even then only if both teams turn up? It's nonsense to give Donaghy, or any other player, an All Star on the basis of 2 games but the All Stars have been reduced to that.

[Lar Naparka]

Why did only 3 games count?

2 semis and the final
The rest of the counties (with the exception of Armagh maybe ) were just making up the numbers
The Dubs waltzed through Leinster, Mayo had an easy run in connacht etc

??
Mayo were damn lucky to scrape past the sheepophiles.

[orangeman]

The introduction of the black card has definitely led to higher scores in the games this year :

2013 All Stars 10-7 2014 All Stars 5-5


There was an easy win for the 2013 team, managed by Dublin's Jim Gavin, in the GAA-GPA All Stars exhibition match in the Irish Cultural Centre in Canton, Boston.
The winners established control early in proceedings and survived a mini-revival in the second half to romp home by 17 points.
Scoring honours went to Dublin's Bernard Brogan who shot three goals for the 2013 team but he was ably assisted by Conor McManus and Aidan O'Shea, who scored 2-2 breaking from centrefield.
At the back the winners, well marshalled by Rory O'Carroll, managed to hold Michael Murphy and Cillian O'Connor scoreless and there was also a star turn by Mayo goalkeeper Rob Hennelly who made a series of saves to keep his team well in command.
At one stage, Hennelly decided to venture up the field and nearly got on the end of a goal scoring move before facing the long journey home to his square.
Donegal's Paddy McBrearty was the busiest of the 2014 forwards for whom rising Galway star Shane Walsh also showed well, scoring a goal from a first-half penalty.
Manager of the 2014 team James Horan may have permitted himself a wry smile at the sight of Keith Higgins bursting forward from defence to crack in the team's two second-half goals – given the former Mayo manager's one-time dilemma over whether to play Higgins in attack or defence.
A good-sized crowd of around 700 enjoyed the match on a sunny but freezing afternoon.
In the curtain raiser, a late rally by New York secured a draw against Boston.
2013 ALL STARS: R Hennelly (Mayo); L Keegan (Mayo), R O'Carroll (Dublin), D Wylie (Monaghan); C Boyle (Mayo; 0-1), T Kernan (Armagh; 1-1); A O'Shea (Mayo; 2-2), S O'Shea (Mayo); S Cavanagh (Tyrone; 1-0), D Walsh (Kerry; 1-0); C McManus (Monaghan; 1-1), B Brogan (Dublin; 3-0), M Dunne (Cavan; 1-2).
2014 ALL STARS: P Durcan (Donegal); K Higgins (Mayo; 2-0), N McGee (Donegal), C Clarke (Cavan); F Fitzgerald (Kerry), C O'Riordan (Tipperary); D Moran (Kerry; 0-1, free), N Gallagher (Donegal; 1-0); R McHugh (Donegal; 0-1), M Murphy (Donegal); C O'Connor (Mayo), S Walsh (Galway; 1-1, goal penalty), P McBrearty (Donegal; 1-2).
Referee: E Kinsella (Laois)

[Jinxy]

How was our kicking lads?

[orangeman]

How was our kicking lads?

Aidan O'Shea's was definitely improved. An impressive 2-2 from him.

[Jinxy]

Yeah, but this is the game he actually plays.
Get back to me when he can kick a size 4 in makey-uppey rules once a year.

[orangeman]

Yeah, but this is the game he actually plays.
Get back to me when he can kick a size 4 in makey-uppey rules once a year.

They're working on it for next year's "tests" - training will be 8 nights a week from the start of January for the Oz rules in 2015.  And it's not size 4 - it's more like a 4.5. 

[Jinxy]

Dry = 4
Wet = 4.5