You clearly hardly saw him play, he regularly chipped in with long range points and scores at the end of slalom runs in the biggest of games. A wing forward with a huge engine and guts but to say he couldn’t play is insane. He was the player Paul Galvin wished he was.
Pat Spillane, the Pele of Gaelic Football
Maurice Fitzgerald
Jack O’Shea
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Hard to argue with that in the modern era. Kerry and Galway are the only two proper gaelic football counties, the rest are either thugs (Dublin) or boring cunts (Ulster). Jack O’Shea was a masterful footballer, as was Spillane. That’s enough yerras though.
In terms of history and the ridiculous opening post, Mick O’Connell was vastly overrated, outplayed in the prime of his career in successive AIs (64/65). By all accounts Sean Purcell was the best ever, a savage footballer. The only Ulster player who should be in the discussion is Sean O’Neill of Down, who of course the Ulster boys neglected to mention as he was an actual footballer.
I’ll go with Purcell, O’Shea and Spillane.
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You’re going with Purcell on the basis of ‘by all accounts…’?
And you slag off the initial post?!
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Nodding. Agreeing.
Kerry is the only proper football country. The Dublin-Kerry rivalry of the 1970’s was something else. The time they chipped that fucker Paddy Cullen, one of the greatest moments in sprt
I don’t agree with the negativity towards Ulster in any case but Down were surely as nice of a football team as Galway were.
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Jack O’Shea fixed the gas boiler in my flat
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a great man to bleed a radiator in his time
Yes, by all accounts, unstoppable, a complete footballer. Do you think those picking the team of the millennium got it completely wrong? or @anon67715551 who knows his football?
Beast of a man
No just Kerry
I’m only pointing out it’s a bit ridiculous calling a player in your top 3 ever on the basis of what other people have said.
I’d have loved to have seen John Galvin play for one of the bigger counties. He always looked like he had an answer for anything anyone threw at him.
From what I’ve seen in my time, I’d pick (in no particular order):
Stephen O’Neill (plagued by injury but when he was good he was unstoppable)
Gooch (complete prick but lead defenders on a merry dance at times)
Bernard Brogan (again, like O’Neill, could be completely unmarkable. Handy to get a big goal too)
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no love for Padraig Joyce?
So Christy Ring isn’t in the top 3 hurlers of all time?
I don’t know. I never saw him play.
Yes. Class act.
It’s already been established he wouldn’t even make the current Limerick panel
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Declan Browne and any 2 of above