Who would your 5 top footballers of all time be? Heres what I think 1. Peter Canavan 2. Pat Spillane 3. Maurice Fitzgerald 4. Barney Rock 5. Brian Dooher Whats your top 5 ?

tyrone.man (Tyrone) - Posts: 83 - 14/07/2009 18:56:36    345895

1. Mick O'Connell
2. JackO'Shea
3. Maurice Fitzgerald
4. Frank McGuigan
5. Matt Connor/Seamus Moynihan
-oh thats six, can't help it!

lostintime (USA) - Posts: 533 - 14/07/2009 19:44:09    345933

1. Peter Canavan
2. kieth barr
3. gooch cooper
4. bernand flynn
5. Brian Dooher

Dellboypolecat (Tyrone) - Posts: 15069 - 14/07/2009 19:45:53    345938

Can only go in my lifetime so....

1.Graham Geraghty
2.Darragh O'Se
3.Peter Canavan
4.Darren Fay
5.Sean Cavanagh

paddym123 (Meath) - Posts: 367 - 14/07/2009 19:52:49    345944

Sean Purcell
Pat Spillane
Mick O'Connell
Brian Mullins
Maurice Fitz

bad.monkey (USA) - Posts: 4649 - 14/07/2009 20:07:02    345959

In no order,

Purcell (Galway), O'Connell, O'Shea, Spillane, (all Kerry) John Joe O'Reilly (Cavan) just to have a defender there as well.

patrique (Antrim) - Posts: 13709 - 14/07/2009 20:19:00    345965

In no particular order...
1. Maurice Fitzgerald
2. Matt Connor
3. Sean O'Neill
4. Dermot Earley Snr
5. Mikey Sheehy

Plink (Monaghan) - Posts: 110 - 14/07/2009 20:20:47    345971

1.matt conner
2. maurice fitzgerald
3.peter canavan
4. colin cooper
5.jack o shea

liffo (Offaly) - Posts: 649 - 14/07/2009 20:24:54    345975

Tyrone man, Barney Rock or Brian Dooher would n't be in the top 50 never mind the top 5.In fairness you can only name the top 5 of the footballers you have seen.Then how do you compare a great footballer who had the misfortune to play for Wicklow like Kevin O Brien with a great footballer who had the good fortune to play on one of the greatest ever teams like Pat Spillane ?Impossible I would say.

Barnowl94 (Galway) - Posts: 3150 - 14/07/2009 20:28:25    345979

surprise surprise tyrone biasism!

dj27legend (Down) - Posts: 641 - 14/07/2009 20:31:04    345987

im young and going by seeing them live.

1.Darragh o se
2.the gooch
3.ciaran mcdonald
4.padraig joyce
5.sean cavannagh

mac11 (Mayo) - Posts: 463 - 14/07/2009 20:38:01    346003

In my time
1. Maurice Fitz
2. Padraig Joyce
3. Declan Browne
4. Gooch
5. Michael Donnelan

SirShaughs (Limerick) - Posts: 388 - 14/07/2009 20:38:02    346004

patrique was i talkin to you at the munster final??wat about jimmy barry murphy lads??

lowerormond (Tipperary) - Posts: 1267 - 14/07/2009 20:38:56    346007

dj27legend-hey they picked some kerry players too

kerrykerry (Kerry) - Posts: 1779 - 14/07/2009 21:00:19    346030

Barnowl94 im not old enough to have seen Barney Rock but from what I've heard he was one of the best

I've only been watchin football for about seven years and in that time from what I've seen of Dooher he definately deserves to be in it

tyrone.man (Tyrone) - Posts: 83 - 14/07/2009 21:03:56    346035

Im not going to put in any players i never seen so in no particular order.
Gooch,Ciaran Mc Donald, Anthony Tohill,Padraig Joyce and Dara o se

beer baron (Cavan) - Posts: 3916 - 14/07/2009 21:09:14    346045

And as for dj27legend Talkin about bein biased I'm definately not old enough to have seen any half decent Down players apart from Benny Coulter who is nowhere to be seen on the big days

tyrone.man (Tyrone) - Posts: 83 - 14/07/2009 21:09:24    346046

holy god to jesus ,are these tyrone boys getting a bit carried away ,granted ye have enjoyed success over the last few years and well done,but the GAA is 125 years old i mean one man there has Two tyrone men in the top 5 of all time ,will ya give it a rest for christs sake there is not even one tyrone man mentioned in the best 15 of the millenium.Im 32 so can only go by the stories i have been told to go back to 50s 60s and the images one has created in ones head over past greats. Mick o connell, Tom Langan, Mickey sheehy,Sean o neill and a coin toss between Maurice fitz and Ciaran mac for the modern era

51longago (Mayo) - Posts: 2981 - 14/07/2009 21:12:22    346050

I can only judge players from what I've seen and I'm only 15 so I'm sure you can forgive me for not knowing much about the 50's, 60's,70's

tyrone.man (Tyrone) - Posts: 83 - 14/07/2009 21:20:49    346060

51longago maybe you should concentrate on Players you have seen then because how can you judge some one you haven't seen

tyrone.man (Tyrone) - Posts: 83 - 14/07/2009 21:24:20    346065