Mickey Harte joins the Irish News

[ONeill]

I'd have Sean definitely on a par with those two in terms of ability and achievement. His performance in the 2008 final maybe surpasses anything they did.

Fay has always been my no.1.

[J OGorman]

Time for 1st dibs Micky to bow out of irish news and could he grab marie louise mccrory on the way out

[orangeman]

Mickey's 15

O'Leary (O'Keefe and McConnell)

Marc O Se (O'Malley, McMenamin)
Fay (Lyons, Hargan)
Scullion (Lynch, Lockhart)

Tomas O Se (Curran, Paidi)
McGeeney (Moynihan, Downey)
O'Connell (Jordan, De Paor)

Dara and Sean (Jacko, Mullins, McDermott, Tohill)

Dooher (Galvin, Giles)
Tompkins (Blaney, O'Sullivan)
Maurice Fitz (Spillane, Oisin)

Cooper (Sheehy, O'Rourke)
Joyce (Liston, Donaghy)
Canavan (Linden, McDonnell)

5 Kerry Tomas, Marc, Dara, Maurice and Colm - 3 brothers in best team of the past 25 years - amazing
3 Tyrone Peter, Brian and Sean
2 Meath Darren and Martin
1 Galway Padraig
1 Cork Larry
1 Dublin Noel
1 Armagh Kieran
1 Derry Tony

Not a bad team.

Who did the shortlist of 3 players ?

[bennydorano]

 Not even a mention of McGrane in MF. Found that a strange one.

His column is still consistently rubbish, for such a great manager he's got little insight to offer & the column is normally filler that any dungballer could type up in half an hour.

[sam03/05]

The fact that the greatest goal keeper ever is not even nominated (Cluxton)
Tells me I don't need to read any more of positions.

[BennyCake]

Not even a mention of McGrane in MF. Found that a strange one.

His column is still consistently rubbish, for such a great manager he's got little insight to offer & the column is normally filler that any dungballer could type up in half an hour.

His column is a platform to further his own/Tyrone's agenda.

[Wildweasel74]

Out of all the -players not on the starting 15, Moynihan is by far the biggest ommission, probably the best all round defender of all them and i have him well ahead of McGeeney, I Still have Donnellan in there, just 1 Galway man and 1Dub on it, Even though they have more all-irelands and played on better teams than the 2 selected, Anthony Tohill the best midfielder of the past 20 odd yrs and thats by a fair margin, outside of that, its a fair decent team, though again Clunton probably better than O`Leary too,

[Wildweasel74]

on another note 25yrs takes u back to around 1988. sure O`Shea and Mullins were well on the slide by then, am not sure Mullins even played that yr

[T Fearon]

Not a Galway man on it? Joyce is at full forward,in my copy anyway?

[T Fearon]

Also farcical to list the likes of Spillane and Paidi,both well past their best in 1988 (ie the beginning of the last 25 years) but in their prime are better than any of the 15 named

[Wildweasel74]

yeah tony see that, missed it, couldnt understand Donnellan not on it, though i have Cavanagh in the half forward line too as hes only spent half his career at midfield, suppose we cant fit them all in.foreby Spillane, he got Liston and Sheedy there too, giving cork were coming on strong then and handed out a bad trimming round 1990 to Kerry it strange to be looking at these players, maybe past 30yrs not surely nor 25

[orangeman]

Would agree on Moynihan. Mc Geeney was a great player all the same.

Cluxton is head and shoulders a better keeper than O'Leary was.

[stephenite]

Not even a mention of McGrane in MF. Found that a strange one.

His column is still consistently rubbish, for such a great manager he's got little insight to offer & the column is normally filler that any dungballer could type up in half an hour.

FFS - Paul McGrane wouldn't make the top 10 midfielders of the last 25 years

[thewobbler]

Not even a mention of McGrane in MF. Found that a strange one.

His column is still consistently rubbish, for such a great manager he's got little insight to offer & the column is normally filler that any dungballer could type up in half an hour.

It's interesting that anyone would rate McGrane that highly. Fine footballer he was, but seeing as Harte is covering the past 35 years in his selection, this is an all time greats list. Unless you're his wife or his agent, McGrane isn't an all time great.

It's actually a bloody good team. Biggest omission is Cluxton, an undeniable all time great. I wouldn't have Tompkins in the team ahead of any of the 'sub' forwards either, but at this point I'm nitpicking.

[lenny]

Out of all the -players not on the starting 15, Moynihan is by far the biggest ommission, probably the best all round defender of all them and i have him well ahead of McGeeney, I Still have Donnellan in there, just 1 Galway man and 1Dub on it, Even though they have more all-irelands and played on better teams than the 2 selected, Anthony Tohill the best midfielder of the past 20 odd yrs and thats by a fair margin, outside of that, its a fair decent team, though again Clunton probably better than O`Leary too,

I agree about Moynihan. He would definitely be in my team ahead of McGeeny. Donnellan would be a worthy choice also probably just ahead of dooher. Also I don't know how Greg blaney was left out. Definitely the best number 11 in the last 25 years.