It amazes** me that there are a lot of lads here that are obviously great hurling lads who continue to engage in debate about one player over another. I saw Skehan and he was a great goalie but the game is different now. He played in an era that you had free reign to bury the keeper if the full back let you pass. A lot of modern goalies would shit themselves if those rules still applied.
Playing behind a solid back line is completely different to playing behind a sieve like defence. Murphy is a really good player but he is always behind 6 solid men. No matter how bad Kilkenny might be going they never lack guts. How would he be rated if he played for Cork??
I had to put up with yer man telling me the GAA is sectarian yadda yadda over an incompetent soccer club in Waterford. No one asked him to get involved with me. Do I search out his opinion? No.
He loves calling fellas out on the internet for a go because he is in the “public eye” until someone actually takes him up then he goes quiet, he’s like Homer Simpson going around slapping randoms with his duel glove, only the fact he is a lonely,bitter old man to be pitied prevents him from getting slept.
The Limerick one or the Cork one? If it’s the Cork one he’s not overrated. I’d say he is commonly regarded as the worst full back to win an All Ireland medal in living memory.