The Irish News - your county's top 15 players ever

longrunsthefox · February 22, 2009, 02:04:59 PM

By all accounts Eddie Devlin would make greatest Tyrone team ever ie: 15 players. Can only guess Francie made a genuine mistake leaving him out.

rrhf · February 23, 2009, 01:33:29 PM

I would have thought the other half of the much vaunted terrible twins would have made that 50 list.

T O Hare · March 20, 2009, 10:16:28 AM

Did the panel forget about Ross Carr?

T Fearon · March 20, 2009, 11:05:05 AM

At least Ross made the final 30 from Down, unlike the legendary Colm Mc Kinstry who was shamefully omitted from Armagh's final 30

The GAA · March 20, 2009, 11:06:08 AM

Have they decided on these things?

corn02 · March 20, 2009, 11:06:47 AM

Quote from: The GAA on March 20, 2009, 11:06:08 AM

Have they decided on these things?

In today's paper.

Maximus Marillius · March 20, 2009, 11:07:49 AM

Lads Eamon O'Hara is on the selection committee......credability ruined already. He hasn't got a clue about gaelic football IMO

The GAA · March 20, 2009, 11:08:35 AM

What are they so?

cornafean · March 20, 2009, 11:11:11 AM

Quote from: boojangles on February 16, 2009, 12:55:05 PM
Heres my tuppence worth!
Cavan

1-Jim Smith- Captain in 33,13 Ulster medals, says it all.A record that will never be surpassed

2-Hughie O Reilly- Captain in 35,legendary player and trainer who's coaching pronciples are still used to this day.

3-Packie Phair-Starred in 33 and 35,a forward feared by all

4-Peter Donohoe-Babe Ruth of GAA-Probably Ulsters all-time greatest forward

5-Tony Tighe-superb attacker,played in 47,48 and 52

6-Mick Higgins- Captain in 52,one of the games all-time great Centre-Forwards

7-John Joe O Reilly-The Greatest

8-PJ Duke-Fantastic Half-back,won 3 All-Ireland medals before his death at the age of 25.Legend

9-Phil 'The Gunner' Brady-legendary powerful full-back/midfielder.Played in 47,48 and 52.His name lives on.

10-Jim McDonnell-Old Jim Bob-One of the greatest players never to win an All-Ireland.

11-Charlie Gallagher-Captain of Ulster winning team of 69.Another of Ulsters all-time great forwards.

12-Gabriel Kelly-One of Cavans greatest ever defenders,played throughout the 60s.winning 4 Ulster medals

13-Steve Duggan- a very stylish forward,another of the Stars from the 60's.

14-Ray Carolan-another of the 60's Stars.One of the countrys top midfielders at the time.

15-Damien O Reilly-One of the Stars of 97.Could play in defence or attack.But for injuries would be Cavans greatest footballer of the last 25 years.

My own reading and hearing different accounts helped me pick from the Golden Era.My fathers knowledge and ramblings gave me a picture of the 60's while my own eye picked the great Damien O Reilly.

No Big Tom O'Reilly? - a man reckoned by pretty much by all the older crew in Cornafean (and many more elsewhere) as a superior footballer to his brother John Joe, and with more honours within his own lifetime as well - even if he was scandalously omitted from the Anglo Celt Cavan Team of The Millennium due to a c**k-up in the nomination process.

ps Packie Phair was a defender.

Over the Bar · March 23, 2009, 01:34:33 PM

I have just read T Fearon's letter objecting to Colm McKinstry's omission from the Armagh's 15. I don't know if it's referred to elsewhere but he says (paraphrase) that not only was McKinstry one of Armagh's greatest ever midfielders but in his view would make the best ever Ulster 15.

Maybe he should have kept that letter till 1st April!

saffron sam2 · March 23, 2009, 01:50:33 PM

Quote from: Maximus Marillius on March 20, 2009, 11:07:49 AM
Lads Eamon O'Hara is on the selection committee......credability ruined already. He hasn't got a clue about gaelic football IMO

Perfectly true, although is O'Hara's ignorance not a lesser sin than his colleague Paddy Heaney's nepotism in selecting his club mate for the list?

Favouritism can be the only reason why Enda Gormley's name made that list.

Still trying to figure out Manus Boyle, four Fermanagh men and a host of Farney men though.

mountainboii · March 23, 2009, 01:56:14 PM

Quote from: Over the Bar on March 23, 2009, 01:34:33 PM
I have just read T Fearon's letter objecting to Colm McKinstry's omission from the Armagh's 15. I don't know if it's referred to elsewhere but he says (paraphrase) that not only was McKinstry one of Armagh's greatest ever midfielders but in his view would make the best ever Ulster 15.

Maybe he should have kept that letter till 1st April!

In defence of Tony, I'm nearly sure he said that McKinstry would possibly make an all time Ulster 125, not 15.

T Fearon · March 23, 2009, 01:57:24 PM

Actually "over the bar", what I really said (go re read) was that Mc Kinstry (a former All Star) should certainly have been in Armagh's Top 30 all time greatest and "in my opinion, a serious cotender for inclusion in Ulster's all time top 125". Now that is entirely different from your report of my comments which insinuate that I said that Mc Kinstry "should be in the Ulster top 15 of all time"

Over the Bar · March 23, 2009, 03:12:32 PM

Ahhh.. OK... I hqave indeed misquoted the letter then.... now I see what you are gettin at.

I thought you'd meant he should be in Ulster's top 15 of the past 125 years, not 125 of all time. That was the point I almost choked on my Cheerios.

9 x 15 = 135 so why only 125?

screenmachine · March 23, 2009, 03:28:37 PM

Quote from: Over the Bar on March 23, 2009, 03:12:32 PM
Ahhh.. OK... I hqave indeed misquoted the letter then.... now I see what you are gettin at.

I thought you'd meant he should be in Ulster's top 15 of the past 125 years, not 125 of all time. That was the point I almost choked on my Cheerios.

9 x 15 = 135 so why only 125?

i think its to do with the 125 year anniversary...