Team of your life

[Ohtoohtobe]

Slow day in work so with the Gooch out I got around to thinking about the best players I've seen and putting them in a team.
Only considered players from the time I've been old enough to have some understanding of what I'm watching so my team covers 1991 to 2014.
Anyway here she is I'd love to see others, particularly from older posters with more years to cover.
It's got a wing back playing corner back, a centre back playing wing back, three centre forwards and two full forwards. But it's my team. Feck off and get your own.

1 Stephen Cluxton
2 Seamus Moynihan
3 Mick Lyons
4 Niall Cahalane
5 Tomas O Se
6 Glenn Ryan
7 Henry Downey
8 Darragh O Se
9 Sean Cavanagh
10 Kieran McDonald
11 Trevor Giles
12 Brian McGuigan
13 Padraig Joyce
14 Peter Canavan
15 Colm Cooper

[T Fearon]

Anybody else see this and have a vision of Patrick Swayze with the following lyrics running round their head "Now I'm having the team of my life, I've never felt this way before,and I swear,it's true,and I owe it all to you?"

[blanketattack]

Cluxton

P Ó Sé
Fay
Lyons

T Ó Sé
Moynihan
O'Connell

Mullins
J O'Shea

Spillane
Fitzgerald
Giles

Gooch
Connor
Sheehy

[AZOffaly]

This is a tough one. So many good players and the temptation is to focus on the really good teams naturally enough. Having said that, I was lucky enough to see the great Kerry team, and was old enough from 1980ish onwards to understand what I was seeing. (The Dublin team of the 70s was before I was really able to understand).

Anyway, I think if I sat down with a few pints I'd come up with a different list, but for now....

Football. I've picked an orthodox formation. No sweepers or deep lying half forwards.

1. Stephen Cluxton

2. Paidi O'Sé
3. Mick Lyons
4. Ryan McMenamin

5. Tomás O'Sé
6. Seamus Moynihan
7. Martin O'Connell

8. Jack O'Shea
9. Anthony Tohill

10. Matt Connor
11. Maurice Fitzgerald
12. Pat Spillane

13. Colm Cooper
14. Peter Canavan
15. John Egan

[AZOffaly]

Jaysus blanket, we must be nearly the same age. Similar enough there. I couldn't leave Canavan out, he was brilliant. And I always preferred John Egan to Mike Sheehy.

[blewuporstuffed]

Jaysus blanket, we must be nearly the same age. Similar enough there. I couldn't leave Canavan out, he was brilliant. And I always preferred John Egan to Mike Sheehy.

I cant believe any team wouldnt have canavan in it! 

[bogball88]

Anybody else see this and have a vision of Patrick Swayze with the following lyrics running round their head "Now I'm having the team of my life, I've never felt this way before,and I swear,it's true,and I owe it all to you?"

Whilst at the same time trying to do the lift with women in the Bot of a Sunday night! 

[BennyCake]

Cluxton me arse.

[AZOffaly]

Is that a verb?

[screenexile]

This is a tough one. So many good players and the temptation is to focus on the really good teams naturally enough. Having said that, I was lucky enough to see the great Kerry team, and was old enough from 1980ish onwards to understand what I was seeing. (The Dublin team of the 70s was before I was really able to understand).

Anyway, I think if I sat down with a few pints I'd come up with a different list, but for now....

Football. I've picked an orthodox formation. No sweepers or deep lying half forwards.

1. Stephen Cluxton

2. Paidi O'Sé
3. Mick Lyons
4. Ryan McMenamin

5. Tomás O'Sé
6. Seamus Moynihan
7. Martin O'Connell

8. Jack O'Shea
9. Anthony Tohill

10. Matt Connor
11. Maurice Fitzgerald
12. Pat Spillane

13. Colm Cooper
14. Peter Canavan
15. John Egan

McMenamin before Tony Scullion.... controversial there!

[AZOffaly]

I played a lot of my football in corner forward, and Ryan McMenamin always struck me as a corner back I was glad I never had to face. Quick, aggressive, buzzing around like a wasp. Scullion was great, but I think McMenamin probably shut down most forwards he played against.

there's tens of players that probably should be on this.

[EC Unique]

Jaysus blanket, we must be nearly the same age. Similar enough there. I couldn't leave Canavan out, he was brilliant. And I always preferred John Egan to Mike Sheehy.

I cant believe any team wouldnt have canavan in it! 

Canavan would make the best ever team never mind in your lifetime. Anyone who omits him can not be taken seriously.

[Wee Roddy]

Peter Canavan to be left out of any team never mind one over the past 15 years ago has to be a wind up. He was the best forward of his generation and one of the greatest ever.....and I couldn't warm to him on a football field because of club rivalries :-)

[updown9194]

Anyone who leaves Canavan out is a troll.

[bannside]

All about opinions, but Canavan probably the best I ever seen tbh.

Heres what my eyes tell me over the last 40 years.

Stephen Cluxton

Ciaran Hamill
Seamus Moynahan
Kieran Mc Keever

Tomas O Shea
Kevin Moran
Martin O Connell

Jacko
Darragh

Kieran Mc Donald
Eugene Mc Kenna
Greg Blayney

Peter Canavan
Colm O Rourke
John Egan