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Ok so maybe this has been done to death here before and maybe not but even though if it has here we go again.
Who was the best player you have ever seen from your county play live. Not who was the best player ever from your county based on things that you have heard who was the best player you have ever seen.
In Kerry - is the best player u seen Mick O'Connell or Cacolm Cooper? Galway - Sean Purcell or Padraig Joyce?? Heffernan or cluxton??
And how good were these players in bygone years compared to the players of now? Is Do we look at the players of old through rose tinted spectacles??
For my own county Leitrim - Seamus Quinn- Won an all-star aged 21, strong as an ox, fast, intelligent on the ball, talent to burn. Kevin O'Brien in Wicklow always reminded me of a player of his talent in a county of average players. If he was in a county competing for all Irelands he would be one of the all-time greats and that I am sure of. I would back him against any player in Ireland in his prime no problem.
But then people here tell me I never seen paddy Mcgarty play!! - I never seen him!!!
So again- who is the best player you ever seen from your county play. And if you have seen players from different generations- are the new ones just as good or not??
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Replying To leitrim4sam: "Ok so maybe this has been done to death here before and maybe not but even though if it has here we go again.
Who was the best player you have ever seen from your county play live. Not who was the best player ever from your county based on things that you have heard who was the best player you have ever seen.
In Kerry - is the best player u seen Mick O'Connell or Cacolm Cooper? Galway - Sean Purcell or Padraig Joyce?? Heffernan or cluxton??
And how good were these players in bygone years compared to the players of now? Is Do we look at the players of old through rose tinted spectacles??
For my own county Leitrim - Seamus Quinn- Won an all-star aged 21, strong as an ox, fast, intelligent on the ball, talent to burn. Kevin O'Brien in Wicklow always reminded me of a player of his talent in a county of average players. If he was in a county competing for all Irelands he would be one of the all-time greats and that I am sure of. I would back him against any player in Ireland in his prime no problem.
But then people here tell me I never seen paddy Mcgarty play!! - I never seen him!!!
So again- who is the best player you ever seen from your county play. And if you have seen players from different generations- are the new ones just as good or not??" Brian Corcoran.
St.Mologga (Cork) - Posts: 108 - 20/08/2021 22:20:29
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Padraig Joyce and Joe Canning, although never been to any type of football match so haven't seen any Galway footballer live in one sense
eoghan6688 (Galway) - Posts: 154 - 20/08/2021 22:33:17
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Michael Murphy.
Tirchonaill1 (Donegal) - Posts: 2756 - 20/08/2021 22:42:28
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Replying To St.Mologga: "Brian Corcoran." Did you ever see Jimmy Barry Murphy play?...both codes!
ONdeDITCH (Limerick) - Posts: 873 - 20/08/2021 22:58:27
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This man was plagued by injuries but in his prime, Ronan Clarke had everything.
ardmhacha (Armagh) - Posts: 172 - 20/08/2021 23:04:59
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Michael Murphy and Karl Lacey, find it very difficult to separate.
Donegal_abroad (Donegal) - Posts: 1321 - 20/08/2021 23:41:13
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From a Tyrone point of view, the King, Frank Mc Guigan. Went to matches with his boots hanging on the end of his two fingers and walked rings round everybody. If he was playing nowadays with the training and fitness , unstoppable. Ask Larry Tomkins, they played together in New York.
Saynothing (Tyrone) - Posts: 2017 - 20/08/2021 23:42:49
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Impossible to compare players from one era against another. So I will stick to those I have seen play.
Cluxton and Keaney would be my two Dubs.
Cluxton has had such a huge influence on how football is played that the GAA even had to change a number of rules to try stop him.
Keaney is a top class hurler and if he had hurled in Ballyhale rather than Ballyboden he would have won multiple All Ireland's and All Stars (but no Leinster football titles).
BlueBeret (Dublin) - Posts: 54 - 21/08/2021 00:40:57
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Easy !!!! Paddy Keenan.
Greengrass (Louth) - Posts: 6031 - 21/08/2021 01:56:14
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Frank McGuigan in the 1970s
essmac (Tyrone) - Posts: 1141 - 21/08/2021 04:50:23
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Replying To leitrim4sam: "Ok so maybe this has been done to death here before and maybe not but even though if it has here we go again.
Who was the best player you have ever seen from your county play live. Not who was the best player ever from your county based on things that you have heard who was the best player you have ever seen.
In Kerry - is the best player u seen Mick O'Connell or Cacolm Cooper? Galway - Sean Purcell or Padraig Joyce?? Heffernan or cluxton??
And how good were these players in bygone years compared to the players of now? Is Do we look at the players of old through rose tinted spectacles??
For my own county Leitrim - Seamus Quinn- Won an all-star aged 21, strong as an ox, fast, intelligent on the ball, talent to burn. Kevin O'Brien in Wicklow always reminded me of a player of his talent in a county of average players. If he was in a county competing for all Irelands he would be one of the all-time greats and that I am sure of. I would back him against any player in Ireland in his prime no problem.
But then people here tell me I never seen paddy Mcgarty play!! - I never seen him!!!
So again- who is the best player you ever seen from your county play. And if you have seen players from different generations- are the new ones just as good or not??" I saw Jack O'Shea and Mikey Sheehy. I missed Maurice Fitzgerald and Colm Cooper. I knew John O'Keefe and Ned Roche was a neighbour. But. The best player I ever saw, admittedly on TV only, was Matt Connor.
What a pity at least one game isn't played a year between the AI winner and the best of the counties which seldom if ever feature. Conway from Kerry is a hurler who is a duck almost out of water. They deserve more credit.
plike (Kerry) - Posts: 569 - 21/08/2021 07:00:23
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Not sure about the greatest but my favourite is James Nallen. A quiet man, very talented footballer, tough but fair, led by example, he'd never give in even when he was having a rare off day. A class act.
GreenandRed (Mayo) - Posts: 7360 - 21/08/2021 07:31:58
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We lost an All Ireland Final to Offaly last Sunday and i'm going to comment on the Faithful's finest.
Matt Connor's career was cruelly cut short by a car crash in about 1984. He had played for Offaly in the 1982 All Ireland Final and in a couple of semis before that. Matt Connor was the finest Gaelic footballer I have ever seen any place any time.
endgame (Roscommon) - Posts: 2170 - 21/08/2021 08:34:33
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I know a lot of people probably will scoff at this but for his scoring achievements, I think Cillian O' Connor stands alone. I don't know either if the OP implicitly excluded goalkeepers but David Clarke for me is the greatest goalie we ever had.
Honourable mention to James Nallen, Colm Boyle, Ciarán MacDonald, Lee Keegan, James Horan, Andy Moran, Liam MacHale.
A few stalwarts such as Willie Joe Padden, Pádraig Brogan, McStay etc. were before my time.
I believe that Kevin O'Neill would have been up there if he hadn't been inexplicably deselected by various Mayo managers for over a decade, but that's speculation on my part.
Gleebo (Mayo) - Posts: 2208 - 21/08/2021 08:50:19
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Replying To endgame: "We lost an All Ireland Final to Offaly last Sunday and i'm going to comment on the Faithful's finest.
Matt Connor's career was cruelly cut short by a car crash in about 1984. He had played for Offaly in the 1982 All Ireland Final and in a couple of semis before that. Matt Connor was the finest Gaelic footballer I have ever seen any place any time." Agreed, Matt Connor was the greatest footballer I ever say.
tireoghainabu (Tyrone) - Posts: 276 - 21/08/2021 09:31:19
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Replying To BlueBeret: "Impossible to compare players from one era against another. So I will stick to those I have seen play.
Cluxton and Keaney would be my two Dubs.
Cluxton has had such a huge influence on how football is played that the GAA even had to change a number of rules to try stop him.
Keaney is a top class hurler and if he had hurled in Ballyhale rather than Ballyboden he would have won multiple All Ireland's and All Stars (but no Leinster football titles)." But isn't that Dublin hurling's big problem, BlueBeret? That they keep losing talents like Keaney and O'Callaghan to the footballers?
Gleebo (Mayo) - Posts: 2208 - 21/08/2021 09:50:45
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I'll go with the blue panther, Anton O'Toole.
realdub (Dublin) - Posts: 8596 - 21/08/2021 10:09:37
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mattie ford
johm o gorman
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liam dunne
larry o gorman [but dont tell him, he will only agree]
martin quigley
Stmunnsriver (Wexford) - Posts: 2845 - 21/08/2021 10:51:01
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Hurling James Doyle
Football. Brendan Murphy
carlovia (None) - Posts: 1517 - 21/08/2021 11:19:12
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