Patrique my good man i apologise-drunk this morning!

beer baron (Cavan) - Posts: 3916 - 21/03/2010 15:43:11    593930

Really annoys me when people [and tv commentators] refer to players by their nick-names - gooch this and star that. Puke.

JimmyK (Dublin) - Posts: 240 - 21/03/2010 16:37:15    593962

I'd have to go with the Gooch, he has everything, and even when things are going against him he can still pull something special out of the fire, like that point he got against Cork in Munster semi final last year. For my money he's a genius, and sees things no one else can.

I'd have Bernard Brogan, Paddy Bradley, Steven O Neill and Michael Meehan behind him. They're all great footballers, but not a genius like the Gooch.

joeshow (Galway) - Posts: 22 - 21/03/2010 16:43:41    593972

Gooch, penrose, bradley, cunningham

Orlaith (Derry) - Posts: 4282 - 21/03/2010 17:08:42    594002

As a pure footballer, it has to be Gooch.

Tongo (UK) - Posts: 1795 - 21/03/2010 17:20:34    594024

Paddy Bradley!!!! He scores serious amounts even though he has no support around him and is marked by two defenders and a third sweeps in front of him. Both feet, pace to burn and severe strength.

The list thus far has been good with the exception of Conor Mortimer, Owen Mulligan, Paddy Cunningham and the likes.


In their prime, it would probably have been stephen O'neill (2005).

RandyDupree (USA) - Posts: 38 - 21/03/2010 17:38:02    594046

Stevie McDonnell would be another good forward as well..Peter Canavan would be another one aswell

Grattonboy (Monaghan) - Posts: 143 - 21/03/2010 17:40:25    594053

Paddy Bradley!!!! He scores serious amounts even though he has no support around him and is marked by two defenders and a third sweeps in front of him. Both feet, pace to burn and severe strength.

What about Eoin Bradley and Kielt..... thought they would be a right support. And Muldoon

BIG SACKS (Tyrone) - Posts: 1681 - 21/03/2010 18:26:46    594098

Micheal Murphy. Imagine if he was with a very good team like tyrone what would he not do

allstar4 (Donegal) - Posts: 558 - 21/03/2010 18:56:07    594134

I dont think its gooch, he can take a point, but other areas of play he is bad, paddy bradley is near the top, that young ginger fellow from antrim seems to be a good prospect as well

teemore4sam (Fermanagh) - Posts: 101 - 21/03/2010 19:14:17    594177

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I dont think its gooch, he can take a point, but other areas of play he is bad, paddy bradley is near the top, that young ginger fellow from antrim seems to be a good prospect as well


You really do have to be joking!

beer baron (Cavan) - Posts: 3916 - 21/03/2010 19:21:09    594190

Teemore4sam: surely not! Gooch is a class act. Maybe not in the same sort of form as he was a couple of summers ago, but the man is gifted, no question. Not quite sure what other areas you are alluding to, but he is definitely one of the most gifted forwards of the last thirty years.

Tongo (UK) - Posts: 1795 - 22/03/2010 08:07:23    594535

Larry Reilly!

laflour (Cavan) - Posts: 528 - 22/03/2010 09:40:35    594592

Teemore, what parts of colm coopers game are "bad". I think your eye sight is bad. He is the best forward in the country by a long way.

JohnMitchel (Dublin) - Posts: 178 - 22/03/2010 11:04:15    594677

Totally impartial here, obviously.... I think Cooper just shades it over Stephen O'Neill, that man can still kick them on either foot from anywhere.

KKid (Kilkenny) - Posts: 421 - 22/03/2010 11:19:57    594698

gooch

traleeexile (Kerry) - Posts: 732 - 22/03/2010 11:39:17    594733

gooch. youd be stupid not to say it

stereoboy (Wicklow) - Posts: 41 - 22/03/2010 12:13:15    594794

So hard to pick the best forward. Gouch, stephen o Neill, Declan o Sullivan, Michael Meehan, Murphy, Clarke, Paddy Kelly.... and so on like. Their are loads of good forwards like. Silly trend really.

rebeltrev (Cork) - Posts: 344 - 22/03/2010 13:18:32    594924