TFK Bogball Team 2000-2019 Midfielders

Sport Football Dream Team
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Fenton and Oā€™Se.

Sean Cavanagh was a great player but was he not more of a forward, certainly towards the end of his careerā€¦?

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John Galvin repeatly ate Darragh Oā€™Se for breakfast.

Sean Cavanagh and MDMA for mise

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Can someone remind me of darragh, the gargles dimmed my brain on him ā€¦ I remember him as a good fielder to win important kickouts and he used to struggle with Nicholas Murphy at times but would take him out with a belt or somethingā€¦ Was his distribution good or was there surging runs or high point scoring high too?

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Oā€™Se was a good all action midfielder, think Ciaran Whelan with a bit more footballing ability.

Heā€™s still 4th in that list though.

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I think Pearce Oā€™Neill used piss him off too back in the day.

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Yeah he was the leader of that kerry teamā€¦ All action like you sayā€¦ Iā€™ve had a complete brain fart about the restā€¦ I just checked that he scored 1-31 in 81 champions games from 94 ton 2009ā€¦

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A beautiful fetcher of the ball. A lovely footballer on the ground, he could carry, kick pass and do the lot really. He also had a lovely nasty streak and made shite of Nic Murphy repeatedly which was an added bonus.

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Recency bias but Howard and Fenton for me. I think Brian Howard is an exceptional, rolls royce of a player.

Good off either foot, terrific engine, calmness on the ball and has this ability to spin away from tacklers Iā€™ve rarely seen. He also gets shifted to the line where Dublin are having issues, often dropping back to hb to play the role of primary ball carrier. He has an eye for some great high fielding too. Iā€™d have him in the team somewhere. Sean Cavanagh next best from those two.

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He was a guy to turn it on on boys days too, or to come up with a big catch or momentum turning play when it was needed.

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Ciaran Whelan with a brain

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Anthony Maher won an all star?

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Could kick a score too. Fetched two frees down from over the crossbar to break our hearts one year as well.
Also had a dirty streak in him when needed.

A class act all around. Iā€™m not sure who Iā€™d put with him. All the dubs blend into one for me

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He was a fine midfielder initially, and a fine forward afterwards as well.

I always liked Cavanagh, and I wouldnā€™t have had much time for most of them Tyronions. Cavanagh and Canavan would be the only two Iā€™d pick out as potential all times. They had some other excellent players but not on that level of consistency and excellence.
Youā€™d want a Dooher in every team too to be fair and Mulligan on his day

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Brian Mcguigan was a rolls royce too. A real play making centre forward, beautiful football with the ball in hand. Shame injuries destroyed him.

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Agree wrt Howard. A real find for Dublin who has slipped in seamlessly. However I couldnā€™t have him in this team as he has only played 2 full seasons. In time I think he will he found to be better than his club mate.

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Agreed, for a few years he was top class

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I always remember being at a Dublin Kerry game in championship in the late 00s. Canā€™t remember the exact one but after 20 minutes Darragh had been down a few times with some sort of back injury. The Kerry bench were signalling for him to come off but he implored them for one more minute. Cluxton sent a kick out down on top of Whelan and O Se. Darragh absolutely poleaxed him going through the back of him. The ref was in the process of dispensing a yellow card and Darragh was ambling towards the bench. Job done.

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Stephen Oā€™Neill was a little genius.

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He done Limericks Stephen Kelly below in Killarney one year. Kelly was absolutely destroying them for 20 minutes and they couldnā€™t handle him. He was lethal at that stage savage fast and strong and just a direct runner, head down till he was fouled or scored basically.
Anyway Oā€™Se took him out with a very hefty and very illegal body check of sorts. Should have been red, but to be fair youā€™d often see a fella getting away with it at the same time, especially a fella of Oā€™Seā€™s fame in the game. He got a yellow.
That was Kelly done for the day, think he stayed on, but he was banjaxed and it changed the game big time.
We were seething afterwards naturally, but I admired it in a way even at the time. Thatā€™s how you win. We didnā€™t have that in us to get passed them

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Thatā€™s because youā€™re a quasi Kerryman.