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Greatest Gaelic Footballer Of All Time
staycalm
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22-Aug-2012 10:46
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Discuss.......
Dont think Clem Smith ever played football so he is off this list sadly :(
frasiercrane
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22-Aug-2012 10:56
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Matt Connor
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22-Aug-2012 11:18
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Dermot Early Snr??
JoNinety
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22-Aug-2012 11:35
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Maurice Fitz, Jack O'Shea or Mick O'Connell.
Mikey Sheehy and Pat Spillane there or thereabouts as well.
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22-Aug-2012 11:40
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Tommy Walsh?
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cerebus
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22-Aug-2012 11:42
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The Man from Clare, back in the day.
Mannie
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22-Aug-2012 11:48
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Peter Canavan
Collig
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22-Aug-2012 11:51
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Originally posted by JoNinety:
Maurice Fitz, Jack O'Shea or Mick O'Connell.
Mikey Sheehy and Pat Spillane there or thereabouts as well.
Ironically Mick O'Connell didn't make the Indo's best ever Kerry team recently.
JHume
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22-Aug-2012 11:52
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Mark McHugh.
bluelim
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22-Aug-2012 11:52
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Can only be the peerless Sean Purcell. Even Mayo men who have seen him admit this.
GalwayDownUnder
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22-Aug-2012 12:02
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If I was to pay to watch one man at the top of his game then it would be Michael Donnellan. His inter county career was way too short. He was the most natual looking player I've ever seen on the ball.
Jack O'Shea was brilliant to watch as well
JoNinety
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22-Aug-2012 12:32
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Originally posted by Collig:
Ironically Mick O'Connell didn't make the Indo's best ever Kerry team recently.
Well in fairness that even supercedes Whelehan not getting an All-Star in '94 in the glaring omissions list, especially when you consider that O'Connell came 4th in the Indo's best footballers over the last 125 years list.
Yojimbo
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Originally posted by Collig:
Ironically Mick O'Connell didn't make the Indo's best ever Kerry team recently.
I seem to recall Sean O'Neill outshining Micko in the 1968 Final
He was one classy player
Here he is, commenting on the 2010 version of Down
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9CcMoU4t6DU
zafonic_10
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22-Aug-2012 12:49
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Two Words
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moycullen14
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22-Aug-2012 13:22
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Originally posted by Rebel CNC:
Dermot Early Snr??
The 1980 (i think?) final between Roscommon & Kerry was on TG4 last week. Jeez, the rossies really left it behind them. 3 or 4 simple frees missed - no such carry on from Mikey Sheehy though. Roscommon looked every bit as good as Kerry.
John Egan looked to be the beating heart of that Kerry team - he was everywhere.
cerebus
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22-Aug-2012 13:26
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Originally posted by moycullen14:
The 1980 (i think?) final... Roscommon looked every bit as good as Kerry.John Egan looked to be the beating heart of that Kerry team - he was everywhere.
Yeah John Egan was superb as always but Tim Kennelly gave his greatest display in a Kerry jersey on that wet, windy and cold day.
The Jedi
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22-Aug-2012 13:28
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Sean Purcell, Tuam Stars & Galway.
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22-Aug-2012 13:29
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Unquestionably Matt Connor. If you need any proof watch All Ireland Gold Tonight.
The Jedi
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22-Aug-2012 13:29
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Originally posted by moycullen14:
The 1980 (i think?) final between Roscommon & Kerry was on TG4 last week. Jeez, the rossies really left it behind them. 3 or 4 simple frees missed - no such carry on from Mikey Sheehy though. Roscommon looked every bit as good as Kerry.
Agreed, with a little more belief, Roscommon would have won it.
Muilleann
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22-Aug-2012 13:31
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Sean Purcell (R.I.P.) of Tuam,Galway.
Hitch
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22-Aug-2012 13:36
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Three words ...'The Red Collier'
bluelim
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22-Aug-2012 14:37
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Originally posted by moycullen14:
The 1980 (i think?) final between Roscommon & Kerry was on TG4 last week. Jeez, the rossies really left it behind them. 3 or 4 simple frees missed - no such carry on from Mikey Sheehy though. Roscommon looked every bit as good as Kerry.John Egan looked to be the beating heart of that Kerry team - he was everywhere.
An extremely controversial thing to say, but Dermot Earley bottled it that day. If he had scored all the placed balls he missed the Rossies would have held out. Earley was a fine man and a wonderful footballer but it's for this reason that I'd wouldn't put him in the pantheon of the 'really greats'. His brother Paul was also culpable when Meath beat Roscommon in the '91 semi. Rossies had the beating of Meath that day but surrendered the initiative as the second half wore on. Had they got to the final, who knows? They'd have given plenty of it to Down who were also an open footballing team.
cerebus
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Originally posted by bluelim:
An extremely controversial thing to say, but Dermot Earley bottled it that day. If he had scored all the placed balls he missed the Rossies would have held out. Earley was a fine man and a wonderful footballer but it's for this reason that I'd wouldn't put him in the pantheon of the 'really greats'.
The weather conditions on the day were atrocious and it's unfair to blame anyone for missing frees on a day like that.
That was a great Roscommon team as was the Offaly team or that period too....but shure aren't all our girls lovely and All Irelands soft, yerra.
bluelim
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22-Aug-2012 15:23
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Originally posted by cerebus:
The weather conditions on the day were atrocious and it's unfair to blame anyone for missing frees on a day like that.
That was a great Roscommon team as was the Offaly team or that period too....but shure aren't all our girls lovely and All Irelands soft, yerra.
True, though Earley was one of the greatest dead ball kickers of the time (of any time). Believe me, nothing against a man who was universally admired and a great ambassador (not just of GAA).
theblack&amber
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Maurice Fitz. Legend.
No other words needed to describe him.
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