Has to be an all Ulster line here. The two lads in the corner were outstanding players, outstanding ball winners, kick scores off either feet, so strong and powerful and able to handle themselves.
The full forward is the greatest player that has ever played the game, the speed of his hands, the way he could evade a swarm of him. Canavan was only about 5ft9 and 11 stone but he’d never let himself be bullied or intimidated and many people tried. An absolute genius, even when he was crocked in the late stages of his career, unable for 70 minutes, he was coming on and deciding games.
His finale was a magical 1-01 in a 45 minute apperance against Kerry, the goal he scored off his left was through the eye of a needle, the point he got at the canal end from the tightest of angles was so so clutch, in the most pressurised of situations. Tom O’Sullivan spent the whole game trying to rough Canavan up, Canavan let his football do the talking. The GOAT.
The full forward line there has all the ability in the world and the type of steely resolve that will remain unbeaten, unbowed and unbroken.
