lenyard
County: Antrim
Posts: 90

224488 15 hurling greats


3. damian murray
5. sean collins
6. mark reynolds
7. aidzo murray
8. jim close
9. jim fegan
10. donal armstron
13. noel murray


I'm an east tyrone man but I admire and have watched Antrim hurling since the mid 80s and watch the club games when I worked in the city even lined out once for a north Belfast team, never again btw, but whose these boys?

CheFinny (UK) - Posts: 1358 - 27/10/2010 12:41:15    804194

Galway mmmmm. Get off your high horse. In 1980 Ballycastle lost by 3 points to a fabulous Castlegar team backboned by the Connolly's (including the best Galway player of all time, John Connolly). Galway won the All-Ireland senior title that year too.

I know some of Antrim's other leading clubs have performed well against Galway club teams since then, but I'll let others provide the details. I used to like Galway as a hurling team, but I'm have second thoughts now!!

bredaghman (Down) - Posts: 98 - 28/10/2010 13:25:13    804972

we have a decent enough record with glaway clubs. played Athenrye twice, one win and on defeat, and Portumna twice, one win and one defeat. Also played sarfields, drawing the first game and losing the replay.

galway club sides are very rarely poor, well maybe loughrea that year they beat cushendall, but that would be the only one i seen.

Dunloyrealist (Antrim) - Posts: 498 - 28/10/2010 16:28:11    805110

Gerry Mc Inerney and Joe Cooney were fine players,Antrim could have used them.

bushwhacker (Antrim) - Posts: 261 - 28/10/2010 20:02:29    805365

From Footsie 1to15:

With regard to Antrim Football's finest 15, there will be few people currently living who will be able to truly appreciate the virtues of the greats of the 1940s/50s and the likes of Kevin Armstrong, Paddy O'Hara, Kevin Gibson, Mc Ateer and Bateson, etc. However, with regard to the most recent generation of Antrim footballers ( last 40 years) I would suggest the following:

1 - Sean Mc Greevy
2 - Ciaran Hamill
3 - Sean Burns
4 - Colin Brady
5 - Sean Kelly
6 - JP O'Kane
7 - Alec McQuillan
8 - John McKiernan
9 - Michael McCann
10 - Aidan Hamill
11- Kevin McGourty
12 - Gerry McCann
13 - Kevin Madden
14 - Andy McCallin
15 - Micky Darragh

footsie1to15 (Antrim) - Posts: 2 - 29/10/2010 08:41:46    805498

bredaghman

You have to do back to 1980 for a comeback, that's 40 years ago. Can you not come back with something more recent? For the record, John onnolly is not Galways greatest ever hurler, it is actually Murty Killilea. If you don't have facts, you should not be on this forum. If every county was like Antrim, where would hurling be? Think we all know the answer.

mmmmmmmm (Galway) - Posts: 343 - 01/11/2010 11:51:36    807018

mmmmmmmm.............If we were all mathematicians like you we'd be in a worst state,1980 is only 30 years ago not 40.Now that the"Celtic Tiger" has gone back to the jungle is no excuse for lowering your educational standards.

bushwhacker (Antrim) - Posts: 261 - 01/11/2010 18:22:36    807413

bushwhacker
Nobody asked you, keep your nose out of other peoples arguments, ps this best antrim team ever ye are picking would not win the current national league.

mmmmmmmm (Galway) - Posts: 343 - 02/11/2010 09:40:20    807672

mmmmmmmm........It's my argument if it involves Antrim,what are you doing on the Antrim website anyway,nobody asked for your puerile opinions or dubious mathematics.Get lost!!.

bushwhacker (Antrim) - Posts: 261 - 02/11/2010 11:41:27    807742

bushwhacker
What you refer to as puerile openions are realistically hard core facts wheather you like it or not. No wonder Antrim is where it is with the likes of you.

mmmmmmmm (Galway) - Posts: 343 - 02/11/2010 11:55:53    807760

bushwhacker
O ya and for your information 40 years ago is actually 1970 and not 1980 so get your facts right before you start talking about mathematics

mmmmmmmm (Galway) - Posts: 343 - 02/11/2010 12:01:53    807768

Galyway mmmmmm

Never heard of Murty K and from your previous postings I don't think you have much of a clue about hurling in Galway or elsewhere in Ireland. I think if you ask your fellow Galway-folk John C would be up at the top of a lot of their lists of best ever Galway Hurlers. Also, I think you'll find that Dunloy have beaten your club hurling champs more recently than 30 years ago.

bredaghman (Down) - Posts: 98 - 02/11/2010 12:14:54    807779

bredaghman
Whats your point?

mmmmmmmm (Galway) - Posts: 343 - 02/11/2010 12:35:23    807800

mmmmmmmm..........Look back at your previous post,you referred to 1980,that's 30 years ago not 40,are you completely stupid.I repeat,get of this site you have plenty of problems in Galway to deal with.

bushwhacker (Antrim) - Posts: 261 - 02/11/2010 13:26:29    807849

In response to mmmmmmmm from Galway:

Most people would presume that this particular thread was for contributors to give their views on the best 15 players to represent Antrim in Football and Hurling - the clue is in the title!!

Your contributions since 26th October have taken the correspondence off on a complete tangent and, quite frankly, have absolutely nothing to do with the topic in question. It appears to me that you have nothing of any substance to contribute. Please log on elsewhere and give us all a break!!

footsie1to15 (Antrim) - Posts: 2 - 02/11/2010 14:19:42    807891

I have still yet to see a footballer in antrim better than the late Gerry McCrory.

TimeForTruth (Antrim) - Posts: 27 - 04/11/2010 14:54:52    809534

footsie1to15, you cant just make presumptions and expect everything to be about what you want it to be about.

mmmmmmmm (Galway) - Posts: 343 - 05/11/2010 09:59:15    810052

This thread is "15 all time greats from Antrim. hurling, football"; however it seems to be hijacked by Galway NNNNNNNNNNNN into something else.
Would the mighty Joe Quinn not be a better midfielder than McCann ?
Likewise James Connolly midfield for hurling.

Saffron_in_Dub (Antrim) - Posts: 85 - 05/11/2010 17:06:50    810410

You get a s..tstirrer on every forum,probably never goes to a match,but buys all the papers on a Monday morning and listens to all the match reports.I'm pretty
sure that mmmmmmmm.... has never been to a Galway match ,let alone an Antrim match

bushwhacker (Antrim) - Posts: 261 - 05/11/2010 17:07:54    810412

mmmmmmmm............As some else pointed out this forum concerns Antrim players,so butt out,you know nothing about.You have had it easy down through the years,you know nothing about the hardship and problems that teams up here had trying to keep the games going during troubled times.your biggest problem was probably where to borrow a donkey and a set of panniers to bring the turf home from the bog in Connemara.

bushwhacker (Antrim) - Posts: 261 - 05/11/2010 19:14:19    810526