Conor McManus must be one of the most universally popular players to ever play the game.
I’ve never heard anybody utter a bad word against him.
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He was some cunt
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A modern great
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Conor McMANUS.
MAN US reminds me of Trump.
Cunt.
He was actually class
Ah he was I suppose.
I would buy a VHS video compilation of all Monaghan’s final day Division 1 NFL great escapes 2015-2023.
There was something about a Monaghan final day escape act that made you smile, smile very hard, and chuckle.
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He is a victim of the format of the Championship really
An absolute legend so he was.
Monaghan for a county with a relatively small pick have produced some terrific players over a 20year period. While not world beaters the Hughes brothers, McManus, both Freemans, Corey, Walshe, both Wylies, Beggan, Finlay and Karl O’Connell could hold their own in most companies.
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We had some titanic battles with them in Ulster. The dude would score from angles that anyone in their right mind wouldn’t take on, and 2 or 3 defenders around him. Plagued and tortured our defence.
Serious operator, although he had some solid help in Beggan, the Hughes brothers, etc…
Definitely one of the best forwards Ulster has ever produced.
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What was he like underage or MacRory? I don’t recalling hearing much about him coming up
I’m fairly sure he played in defence at underage
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He was class. Always produced. Sound skin by all accounts.
Very tricky cunts them Monaghan people. I’m sure @Bandage agrees
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Ulster
No idea. For smaller counties, I’d say someone of that level of quality did wonders for getting youngsters inspired to choose GAA over competing sports like smuggling or whatever else they play in that county.
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Yeah he was a wing-back when he first broke onto the Monaghan panel around 2007.
No Bob Hope medals for them lads to crow about in a few years on the INTERNET
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Hope might be all they’re left with
I swear I heard Vinny Corey say on the wireless today that he didnt play county minor
and that he was a wing back and a wing forward until he was 19 and it was only then he drifted into the inside line