Mickey Harte joins the Irish News

[ONeill]

Ach it is all a bit of crack. The is no correct selection. We could all come up with our own and no two would match.

[Line Ball]

This is a man who proclaims to know football and absolutely loves driving his opinions down peoples throats.

To leave three of the most influential players of all time out of his farcical team is nonsensical:

Mick Lyons

Jack O'Shea

Greg Blaney


Catch a grip Mickey, you tube.

[BennyCake]

I'd have Stevie ahead of Joyce, and Blaney ahead of Tompkins. Blaneys ability to feed his forwards was fantastic. An unbelievable playmaker. Won a lot of breaking ball too.

[Wildweasel74]

well if u looking stevie in u got to compare him to the man in his position and thats colin cooper, I would say Joyce is a better full forward than McDonnell

[Gabriel_Hurl]

Mickey still winding the apple munchers  up

[From the Bunker]

Have not seen the list but I suppose the following were not good enough.Declan Browne, Kevin O'Brien, Ciaran McManus, Matty forde, Eamon O'Hara, Johnny Doyle, Ciaran McDonald, Glenn Ryan, Martin Daly, Colin Corkery, Dermott Earley (jnr). In reality you are not a truly a great player without the Celtic Cross?

[bennydorano]

IIRC (& i wouldn't put the house on it) Mickey Harte was once hypothetically asked in a Gaa transfer market who would he take, Paul McGrane was one of his picks. Not that's it's any big deal - i thought he was worth a mention in the MF mix.

I'm on record numerous times here stating my admiration for mcGrane, i make no bones about it, IMO he is Armagh's greatest ever player. Some people have short memories, he was every bit as important & integral to Armagh's success as McGeeney.

[GalwayBayBoy]

Anyone from west of the Shannon on Mickey's team or is it a Ulster/Kerry selection box?

[rodney trotter]

The team is listed on page 54 of this thread

[theticklemister]

Paul McGrane was nowhere near the player PJ McGrane was.

[From the Bunker]

Anyone from west of the Shannon on Mickey's team or is it a Ulster/Kerry selection box?

Ulster teams are obsessed with two things beating the hell outta each other and beating Kerry. And in Fairness they succeed in doing both nearly all of the time!

[GalwayBayBoy]

Anyway looked at the team. Not too bad but think you have to get Seamus Moynihan in there somehow. Also not sure about the Larry Tompkins selection. Think better players than Larry overlooked there. Might have felt Cork deserved a pick for their late 80's team.

[rodney trotter]

Trevor Giles and Michael Donnellan would have been unlucky in the half forward line. Never saw larry tompkins play

[orangeman]

Trevor Giles and Michael Donnellan would have been unlucky in the half forward line. Never saw larry tompkins play

But for Thompkins, there's a good chance Cork wouldn't have won those 2 in late 80s.

He was some player.

[From the Bunker]

25 years is too long a period to look at a group of players. A decade is the most at best. Even then there are players just starting out on their career at the end of the decade or finishing at the beginning.