The one week gap is a physical thing.
The tired team doesnât get to speed of the fresh team.
The fresh team doesnât sustain it and comes down to the lower speed of play/explosiveness.
The second half is always slower.
Not an issue for pros that can recover properly.
A scorer of some sublime scores but not always the most prolific of scorers. I donât think itâs that outlandish to say Matty Forde or prime Quinlvan were as good as him. I heard it said in the media recently that heâd walk on to the team of the last 25 years, but canât say Iâd agree. A great player but slightly overrated in some quarters.
Forde and Quinlivan were more gifted than McManus, but they were more gifted than 99.8% of players to ever play the game. Neither achieved near as much as McManus did. McManus wrung the last drop out of his talent, year in year out for a decade and a half and delivered in spades for his team.
Heâs miles ahead of the other two and also played in a much tougher championship.
Just be grateful he didnât say Mattie Forde
Holy fuck he did!!
He also played in a much better team. Division 1 for an entire decade. Although they were languishing in Div 3 before Malachy Oâ Rourke came in and transformed them.
Comparing mattie forde to McManus would be like comparing Jermaine Defoe to Wayne Rooney.
Mattie fucking Forde 
I think heâs still in Aidan Fennellys pocket
Give me one iconic Conor McManus performance in championship in Croke Park? I genuinely canât remember one. He was superb in Omagh against Tyrone in the 2018 Ulster championship. A virtuoso performance, but he never brought that form to HQ.
I agree. He was a lovely player but i think lads are getting a bit carried away here.
He stood out more in Ulster where the football is 95% mundane hand passing shite.
The same fellas would probably have told us that Jamie Clarke was the best footballer in the country in 2015.
Was McManus not a bit of a Jason Forde type? Outstanding in the League and a few decent performances early in the championship before fading into obscurity when it came to knockout?
That is harsh - he was a marquee forward who always drew a teams main man marker and teams game planned for.
Forde would usually draw the easiest match up of the three inside forwards for Tipp and still struggle to make an impact
Jamie Clarke was never the best footballer in the country in any year
Matty was a wexican
@StoneCold was talking about Jason Forde
My bad
