Following on from the Pat Spillane - Rural Fuckwit thread, post your selections for 3 greatest gaelic footballers of all time here.
My 3 are as follows:-
- Mick O’Connell - I’ve been told by Monaghan men that played against him he was the best they ever saw and he was the only one back then who could score from 50 yards out so he has to be the best. Also, the spirit of the Gael.
- Matt Connor - by far the best player on the team that beat the (second) best team of all time. (Although he missed a point blanc range free just before the end) He made complete shit out of Dublin in his time. Offaly football never recovered from his accident, which tells it’s own story.
- Sean Cavanagh - I don’t like him but he was the best of the modern era. A controversial choice, I appreciate.
Lads who got close:
- Pat Spillane - would be in most people’s top 3 but not mine. The first player with modern fitness levels. Loses points for being a middle class jackeen from Templenoe and not a true Gael living on Valencia Island.
- Mike Sheehy - maybe the most skillful of all time
- Jack O’Shea - they say he was the first modern midfielder. He got results and he just seems cool.
- Kevin Heffernan - possibly the most influential player of all time in terms of tactical impact
- Kevin Murray - John McGahern wanted his autograph so he must have been good.
- Mickey Linden - I never really saw this lad but he’s supposed to have been good
- Bernard Brogan - don’t laugh at his peak I thought he just looked a division better than everyone else and he played in the (possibly second) best team of all time so he must have been alright
- Jim Hannify - one of the best corner forwards of all time. Could have won an AI.
- Conor McManus - bias here but good stats and skills.
- probably one of those Cavan cunts from the 1950s.
