2013 All-Stars

[tommysmith]

I'll have a stab based on performances to date:
1 Niall Morgan (on NFL performances)
2 Killian Clarke
3 Ger Cafferky (not that bowled over by him but can't think of an outstanding candidate)
4 Colin Walshe (Should get one regardless of what happens from here)
5 James McCarthy (Ditto)
6 Dessie Mone
7 Jack McCaffrey
8 Aidan O'Shea (or David Givney)
9 Sean Cavanagh
10 Cian Mackey (or Mark Donnelly)
11 Ciaran Kilkenny
12 Paul Flynn
13 Colm Cooper (out of position, I know)
14 Kieran Hughes (or Alan Freeman)
15 Paul Mannion

Obviously will change completely

Givney is not within an asses roar of an all-star.

[Maguire01]

No one nailed on at this stage I don't think, although you could fill out a good few of the nominations.

[thewobbler]

I'll have a stab based on performances to date:
1 Niall Morgan (on NFL performances)
2 Killian Clarke
3 Ger Cafferky (not that bowled over by him but can't think of an outstanding candidate)
4 Colin Walshe (Should get one regardless of what happens from here)
5 James McCarthy (Ditto)
6 Dessie Mone
7 Jack McCaffrey
8 Aidan O'Shea (or David Givney)
9 Sean Cavanagh
10 Cian Mackey (or Mark Donnelly)
11 Ciaran Kilkenny
12 Paul Flynn
13 Colm Cooper (out of position, I know)
14 Kieran Hughes (or Alan Freeman)
15 Paul Mannion

Obviously will change completely

Picking a team on performances to date is pointless. You'll get a lot closer by predicting your semi finalists and finalists then working out something like 1 for one semi finalist, 2 for the more emotional semi finalist, 5 for the runners up and 7 for the winners.

The exception to this rule is when Dublin are gallantly dumped out at the semis. This is worthy 3 spots for being Dublin, including Clucko's birthright.

Cluxton
Walshe, Cafferkey, Higgins
Keegan, Mone, McCaffrey
A O'Shea, McAuley
McLoughlin, Kilkenny, Flynn
Cooper, O'Connor, Moran

[ONeill]

No Mannion?

[BennyCake]

We'll see how many of these Dublin "all stars" perform this weekend. Hopefully they'll be stuffed and that'll be the end of this all star talk.

[larryin89]

Mayo's best player last season did not get one. KML 

It was criminal  he didn't get one.

[Syferus]

They really should think about naming a 'panel' of 26 players for the All-Stars. Have some of them on the proverbial bench if you really want to keep naming a team of 15 but they need to break the AI finalist monopoly on All-Stars somehow. Many truly great players haven't an All-Star while lesser players are flooded with them because they were lucky enough to be born in a 'top' county.

The GAA need to make a big deal out of their Hall of Fame. Make that the ultimate individual prize in the sport. It's one far more open to players from smaller counties.

[mb80b60]

I'll have a stab based on performances to date:
1 Niall Morgan (on NFL performances)
2 Killian Clarke
3 Ger Cafferky (not that bowled over by him but can't think of an outstanding candidate)
4 Colin Walshe (Should get one regardless of what happens from here)
5 James McCarthy (Ditto)
6 Dessie Mone
7 Jack McCaffrey
8 Aidan O'Shea (or David Givney)
9 Sean Cavanagh
10 Cian Mackey (or Mark Donnelly)
11 Ciaran Kilkenny
12 Paul Flynn
13 Colm Cooper (out of position, I know)
14 Kieran Hughes (or Alan Freeman)
15 Paul Mannion

Obviously will change completely

Picking a team on performances to date is pointless. You'll get a lot closer by predicting your semi finalists and finalists then working out something like 1 for one semi finalist, 2 for the more emotional semi finalist, 5 for the runners up and 7 for the winners.

The exception to this rule is when Dublin are gallantly dumped out at the semis. This is worthy 3 spots for being Dublin, including Clucko's birthright.

Cluxton
Walshe, Cafferkey, Higgins
Keegan, Mone, McCaffrey
A O'Shea, McAuley
McLoughlin, Kilkenny, Flynn
Cooper, O'Connor, Moran

How do you mean?  Cluxton has won one all star in the last 5 years.  It was the year they won it and he fully deserved it.  If anything, he should probably have been awarded more all stars.

[onefaircounty]

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10. Munnelly
11. Gooch
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15. Mannion

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[Canalman]

We'll see how many of these Dublin "all stars" perform this weekend. Hopefully they'll be stuffed and that'll be the end of this all star talk.

Indeed , many an "allstar award" lost at the 1/4 final stages.

As always there are no cast iron certainties for an allstar until the semi final stage. The old system where winning the league or the province guaranteed you the one is gone the way of the dodo.

[johnneycool]

Only one certain at the minute is the Hurling keeper's spot.

And Paul Murphy has a defenders spot sewn up already as well

[thewobbler]

I'll have a stab based on performances to date:
1 Niall Morgan (on NFL performances)
2 Killian Clarke
3 Ger Cafferky (not that bowled over by him but can't think of an outstanding candidate)
4 Colin Walshe (Should get one regardless of what happens from here)
5 James McCarthy (Ditto)
6 Dessie Mone
7 Jack McCaffrey
8 Aidan O'Shea (or David Givney)
9 Sean Cavanagh
10 Cian Mackey (or Mark Donnelly)
11 Ciaran Kilkenny
12 Paul Flynn
13 Colm Cooper (out of position, I know)
14 Kieran Hughes (or Alan Freeman)
15 Paul Mannion

Obviously will change completely

Picking a team on performances to date is pointless. You'll get a lot closer by predicting your semi finalists and finalists then working out something like 1 for one semi finalist, 2 for the more emotional semi finalist, 5 for the runners up and 7 for the winners.

The exception to this rule is when Dublin are gallantly dumped out at the semis. This is worthy 3 spots for being Dublin, including Clucko's birthright.

Cluxton
Walshe, Cafferkey, Higgins
Keegan, Mone, McCaffrey
A O'Shea, McAuley
McLoughlin, Kilkenny, Flynn
Cooper, O'Connor, Moran

How do you mean?  Cluxton has won one all star in the last 5 years.  It was the year they won it and he fully deserved it.  If anything, he should probably have been awarded more all stars.

He's probably the best keeper I've seen, but 4 All Stars divided by 1 All Ireland has got to make him the player most awarded for individual pursuits in the history of the GAA.

I'd imagine his predecessor O'Leary held the mantle before him too, sometimes rightly, sometime wrongly. Great goalkeeper as he was, Neil Collins couldn't really have done an awful lot more in 1994 to get recognition above him.

[mb80b60]

I'll have a stab based on performances to date:
1 Niall Morgan (on NFL performances)
2 Killian Clarke
3 Ger Cafferky (not that bowled over by him but can't think of an outstanding candidate)
4 Colin Walshe (Should get one regardless of what happens from here)
5 James McCarthy (Ditto)
6 Dessie Mone
7 Jack McCaffrey
8 Aidan O'Shea (or David Givney)
9 Sean Cavanagh
10 Cian Mackey (or Mark Donnelly)
11 Ciaran Kilkenny
12 Paul Flynn
13 Colm Cooper (out of position, I know)
14 Kieran Hughes (or Alan Freeman)
15 Paul Mannion

Obviously will change completely

Picking a team on performances to date is pointless. You'll get a lot closer by predicting your semi finalists and finalists then working out something like 1 for one semi finalist, 2 for the more emotional semi finalist, 5 for the runners up and 7 for the winners.

The exception to this rule is when Dublin are gallantly dumped out at the semis. This is worthy 3 spots for being Dublin, including Clucko's birthright.

Cluxton
Walshe, Cafferkey, Higgins
Keegan, Mone, McCaffrey
A O'Shea, McAuley
McLoughlin, Kilkenny, Flynn
Cooper, O'Connor, Moran

How do you mean?  Cluxton has won one all star in the last 5 years.  It was the year they won it and he fully deserved it.  If anything, he should probably have been awarded more all stars.

He's probably the best keeper I've seen, but 4 All Stars divided by 1 All Ireland has got to make him the player most awarded for individual pursuits in the history of the GAA.

I'd imagine his predecessor O'Leary held the mantle before him too, sometimes rightly, sometime wrongly. Great goalkeeper as he was, Neil Collins couldn't really have done an awful lot more in 1994 to get recognition above him.

1 all ireland perhaps, but he also has 8 leinster medals.  As you say, he is the greatest keeper you have ever seen, 4 all stars is hardly unbelievable. 

Anyway, I digress - your original point was that it was 'Clucko's Birthright'.  I think one all star in the past 5 years dispells that myth.  I don't see who else could possibly win it this year.

[screenexile]

I'll have a stab based on performances to date:
1 Niall Morgan (on NFL performances)
2 Killian Clarke
3 Ger Cafferky (not that bowled over by him but can't think of an outstanding candidate)
4 Colin Walshe (Should get one regardless of what happens from here)
5 James McCarthy (Ditto)
6 Dessie Mone
7 Jack McCaffrey
8 Aidan O'Shea (or David Givney)
9 Sean Cavanagh
10 Cian Mackey (or Mark Donnelly)
11 Ciaran Kilkenny
12 Paul Flynn
13 Colm Cooper (out of position, I know)
14 Kieran Hughes (or Alan Freeman)
15 Paul Mannion

Obviously will change completely

Picking a team on performances to date is pointless. You'll get a lot closer by predicting your semi finalists and finalists then working out something like 1 for one semi finalist, 2 for the more emotional semi finalist, 5 for the runners up and 7 for the winners.

The exception to this rule is when Dublin are gallantly dumped out at the semis. This is worthy 3 spots for being Dublin, including Clucko's birthright.

Cluxton
Walshe, Cafferkey, Higgins
Keegan, Mone, McCaffrey
A O'Shea, McAuley
McLoughlin, Kilkenny, Flynn
Cooper, O'Connor, Moran

How do you mean?  Cluxton has won one all star in the last 5 years.  It was the year they won it and he fully deserved it.  If anything, he should probably have been awarded more all stars.

He's probably the best keeper I've seen, but 4 All Stars divided by 1 All Ireland has got to make him the player most awarded for individual pursuits in the history of the GAA.

I'd imagine his predecessor O'Leary held the mantle before him too, sometimes rightly, sometime wrongly. Great goalkeeper as he was, Neil Collins couldn't really have done an awful lot more in 1994 to get recognition above him.

1 all ireland perhaps, but he also has 8 leinster medals.  As you say, he is the greatest keeper you have ever seen, 4 all stars is hardly unbelievable. 

Anyway, I digress - your original point was that it was 'Clucko's Birthright'.  I think one all star in the past 5 years dispells that myth.  I don't see who else could possibly win it this year.

Clucko has made no real outstanding saves this year and his short kickout strategy has generally been negated so what pits him higher than the other keepers left in the Championship bar his name?

[nrico2006]

I'll have a stab based on performances to date:
1 Niall Morgan (on NFL performances)
2 Killian Clarke
3 Ger Cafferky (not that bowled over by him but can't think of an outstanding candidate)
4 Colin Walshe (Should get one regardless of what happens from here)
5 James McCarthy (Ditto)
6 Dessie Mone
7 Jack McCaffrey
8 Aidan O'Shea (or David Givney)
9 Sean Cavanagh
10 Cian Mackey (or Mark Donnelly)
11 Ciaran Kilkenny
12 Paul Flynn
13 Colm Cooper (out of position, I know)
14 Kieran Hughes (or Alan Freeman)
15 Paul Mannion

Obviously will change completely

Picking a team on performances to date is pointless. You'll get a lot closer by predicting your semi finalists and finalists then working out something like 1 for one semi finalist, 2 for the more emotional semi finalist, 5 for the runners up and 7 for the winners.

The exception to this rule is when Dublin are gallantly dumped out at the semis. This is worthy 3 spots for being Dublin, including Clucko's birthright.

Cluxton
Walshe, Cafferkey, Higgins
Keegan, Mone, McCaffrey
A O'Shea, McAuley
McLoughlin, Kilkenny, Flynn
Cooper, O'Connor, Moran

How do you mean?  Cluxton has won one all star in the last 5 years.  It was the year they won it and he fully deserved it.  If anything, he should probably have been awarded more all stars.

He's probably the best keeper I've seen, but 4 All Stars divided by 1 All Ireland has got to make him the player most awarded for individual pursuits in the history of the GAA.

I'd imagine his predecessor O'Leary held the mantle before him too, sometimes rightly, sometime wrongly. Great goalkeeper as he was, Neil Collins couldn't really have done an awful lot more in 1994 to get recognition above him.

1 all ireland perhaps, but he also has 8 leinster medals.  As you say, he is the greatest keeper you have ever seen, 4 all stars is hardly unbelievable. 

Anyway, I digress - your original point was that it was 'Clucko's Birthright'.  I think one all star in the past 5 years dispells that myth.  I don't see who else could possibly win it this year.

Are you seriously saying that Cluxton is the only one who could win it this year?  Why?  In all seriousness, what has he done that any other keeper hasn't?  I'm sure there are keepers in this years championship who have been more impressive, as Cluxtons defence has been pretty watertight so far and he hasn't had much to do.