The position is entirely different,
Martin O’Connell for example played a completely different role to Keegan
Sure it’s a totally different game 
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O’Connell was a right filthy bastard.
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Mayo 2004 and 2006 had no business being in the final.
Mayo 1997 had but their underperformance in that final was on balance probably even more disappointing than their no shows of 2004 and 2006.
I think it was the worst bottle job of any of their finals. They played for 10 minutes in the second half and got back from 7 down to 1 down and then they bottled it again.
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In a power ranking would be be your number 1
The running half back was a thing well back into the 20th century. Kevin Moran was one of the first. Paul Curran and Keith Barr were 21st century players, so was Henry Downey, so was Sean Og De Paor.
Keegan could and still can play any role. When he scored those goals in 2016 and 2017 he was simultaneously wiping out Dublin’s key forward.
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In the past decade I’d rank AI final goals as
- Jack Mac
- K Spillane
- Keegan 2016
- Murphy
- Keegan 2017
It wasn’t a great era for final goals. Much better ones between 2002-2011 for example Canavan, McConville, Colm o Neill. Cooper in 2011 was a beauty too.
I’d imagine lee keegan will go down as the greatest player ever to not win an all Ireland.
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Easily
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There is no other contender. He’s out on his own by a mile.
Disagree. They were fucking horrendous to watch. The most handpassingest team of all time and an all Ireland was somehow handed to them.
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Around that period 16/17 what Mayo players would have made dublins team beside keegan ? Arguably none of the forwards.
What they done to put it up to Dublin was incredible given the difference in quality.
Murchan surely should be in there.
Turned things around towards the five in a row as well.
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We nearly had them in the GG that year like ffs
The two Keegan goals and McCaffrey’s goal in '19 are the best of that era. Hard to split any of them.
Between 2002 and 2011 the only final goal I’d rank in that bracket is Canavan’s in '05.
Colm Cooper got a fine solo effort in 2004 but the resistance was tissue paper.
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I’m too young to remember but Dermot Earley is very highly rated by GAA people of that era
Even Jimmy Sloyan likes him (granted he was having a dig at McStay at the time)
He overcarried it.
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Andy Moran and COC for Eoghan O’Gara and Dean Rock straight away.
This is why Barry Nash is the best corner back ever in hurling. He is not constrained by his position and is perhaps his team’s most important attacking weapon, as well as doing his traditional corner back job extremely well.
Ryan McMenamin was probably the pioneer of the attacking corner back in football.
Declan Meehan another…
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Higgins,Boyle and Barrett