Ex players seem to rate Richie power incredibly highly. Pity about the injuries.
You are King of the WUMs.
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Second choice team maybe? You’ve listed quite a few players there who are rightly considered all time greats by most people.
Chill Winston.
First mention I’ve seen of David Burke who should be in any conversation for midfield.
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Yeah, but I loved Lyng in his pomp, he was so strong!
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The original team of the century
will be forty years old next year. Recency bias is a terrible thing of course and there are very few people left who saw a lot of that team play in their prime.
Allowing for all that I would expect that only the following would be in the shake up for an updated greatest hurlers in the history of the GAA.
Tony Reddin
John Keane
Lory Meagher
Christy Ring
Mick Mackey
Jimmy Doyle
Nicky Rackard
There should be no one on that team who last played before 1970
Eddie Keher would surely be in the shake up. Not necessarily on the team, but definitely in the shake up.
I think there are more pre-1984 hurlers who would be in the running for a team of all time now than there would be footballers.
I don’t think Keane and Reddin are names that still resonate like the others on your list, maybe the competitions in their name help some of the others
Ring and Mackey are probably the only absolute locks, that’s two forward spots gone already
Martin o Connell on the football millennium one is the most ridiculous recency bias one ever.
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I think there have been too many great attackers in the last 40 years to preserve Eddie’s place in the pantheon.
Conversely, that team ludicrously omitted Jack O’Shea who was on the 1984 team in favour of Tommy Murphy, who nobody saw play.
O’Shea should still be a certainty for a team of all time.
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Yeah the hurlers are more ‘legendary’ names. In reality Peter Casey is probably more skilful than Christy ring
Casey didn’t play when your marker could put a hurley through your skull.
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Christy Ring played with a much narrower boss. Sure the sticks they played with back then were like hockey sticks. They basically play with goalkeeper’s hurleys now.
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Keane and Reddin survive (and only survive in the discussion, mind) only because of the lack of absolutely dominant players in their positions in the last forty years.
How did it take them 100 years to work that out
My own take has always been that the best players 50 years ago would be the best players nowadays and visa versa.
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There’s been a lot of good goalies in the last 40 years
Cummins, Fitzhenry and Cunningham top of my list
I suspect that a team picked now would have a wing back at 6 because there have been so many all timers