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AOS - player of the year?

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Replying To BartMcQueen: "Finally Aidan O'Shea is playing to his potential. 4 man of the matches in a row. Is Aidan OShea for player of the year??" Cant believe this hype machine is getting going again.Half of those man of the match selections have just gone to hI'm because of his media profile. A blind man could see Keith Higgins was motm by a mile yesterday closely followed by Harrison and parsons. AOS has played reasonably well against division 2 and division 3 teams. He won't do a thing against Kerry or Dublin. As usual HuddHastings (Longford) - Posts: 144 - 08/08/2017 12:23:09 2030925 Link
People get wound up over individual awards like this, there was uproar about Lee Keegan getting it last year. I don't mind if he does win POTY so long as he ends the year without a Celtic cross and the Dubs lift Sam. If we don't, I hope Sean Cavanagh goes out on a high and Tyrone win it. waynoI (Dublin) - Posts: 13650 - 08/08/2017 12:33:13 2030934 Link
Aidan O'Shea is deffo one of the contenders along with lee keegan again and midfielder Fenton from Dublin. Con o'Callaghan has the young player of the year sewn up all ready. KingdomBoy1 (Kerry) - Posts: 14092 - 08/08/2017 12:54:00 2030960 Link
Oh look another thread started which will be used to bate the Mayo posters on this site with if/when Mayo get knocked out....no even started by a Mayo man and not one Mayo poster has agreed with. yew_tree (Mayo) - Posts: 11236 - 08/08/2017 12:57:35 2030968 Link
Kilkenny all day long the best player on the undisputed best team. mayoboy1 (Mayo) - Posts: 1654 - 08/08/2017 13:26:47 2031001 Link
Replying To GaaGaa78: "I'd love to see what you must be typing if Hilter is what comes up in your predictive text for 'Hurler' :)" I've no idea how that made it past the mods considering some of the stuff that they won't let through. As for why it auto corrected like that - god knows! cavanman47 (Cavan) - Posts: 5016 - 08/08/2017 14:19:43 2031040 Link
Replying To KingdomBoy1: "Aidan O'Shea is deffo one of the contenders along with lee keegan again and midfielder Fenton from Dublin. Con o'Callaghan has the young player of the year sewn up all ready." And no player(s) from Kerry in the mix, no? GaaGaa78 (UK) - Posts: 285 - 08/08/2017 14:26:03 2031042 Link
Paul Mannion looking tidy all championship .. WhyTheLongFace (Meath) - Posts: 876 - 08/08/2017 14:43:51 2031058 Link
Not for me. Was even surprised he got MOTM yesterday. The game was over at 2-6 - 0-1 and AOS could hardly be considered the main influence to getting Mayo to that score. Higgins to me was the best player for Mayo yesterday but AOS seems to be the default select MOTM in such games. I would consider him behind Higgins and Keegan as Mayo's best players this season so far. poguemahone (Dublin) - Posts: 365 - 08/08/2017 14:51:43 2031066 Link
Replying To DUBJOHN: "Is this a joke ? So far this year he wouldn't even get player of the year on the Mayo team !" Seriously? AOS has dug us out of several holes this year, going back to the Donegal league match which we needed to win to avoid relegation. Not a big fan of his previously, but no doubting his influence this year, especially given that Keegan was struggling up to the Roscommon drawn game ( winter exertions no doubt playing a part). Gleebo (Mayo) - Posts: 2208 - 08/08/2017 14:55:53 2031070 Link
Replying To WhyTheLongFace: "Paul Mannion looking tidy all championship .." An outside bet but again has to put in big performance in the SF to be considered. Ciaran Kilkenny was my ante post bet. Regretting not putting any money down as he is looking consistently good. poguemahone (Dublin) - Posts: 365 - 08/08/2017 16:59:44 2031167 Link
Lee Keegan got POTY last year without winning Sam. Hard to see another Mayo player winning it without being All Ireland champions. FootblockREF (Monaghan) - Posts: 564 - 08/08/2017 17:12:13 2031175 Link
Isn't it a player voted award? DannyMcA (Dublin) - Posts: 260 - 08/08/2017 17:22:05 2031184 Link
He's not even mayo's best player and he won't get a sniff against kerry he is very over rated for a man that disappeared in every semi and final Al mightydubs (Dublin) - Posts: 48 - 08/08/2017 18:20:50 2031223 Link
If Mayo beat Kerry he has a good chance. Hard to see him getting it without playing in the final. What will be in his favour is the fact that he has played against so many teams this year so lots of players will have firsthand experience of playing against him. He will probably get a few votes from Derry players anyway. Killarney.87 (Tipperary) - Posts: 2513 - 09/08/2017 14:54:52 2031614 Link
Realistically there have been no games played that count towards player of the year. It's all about what happens in these final 3 games. Whammo86 (Antrim) - Posts: 4235 - 09/08/2017 15:10:36 2031623 Link
Paul Mannion @ 25/1 and Kilkenny at 14s are good bets. O'Donoghue looking shaky at 7/1 joint fav with Geaney. If JOD is actually injury free and steps it up, coupled with Kerry winning SAM, he could land it. So could Geaney. Brogan won it in '10 with Dublin going out in the semi final but that was an outrageous performance that year and no one could have argued against it. realdub (Dublin) - Posts: 8596 - 09/08/2017 15:32:51 2031635 Link

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