Ok apperars to be a few in hurling. But in football there's graham geraghty and nudie Hughes, anyone else with all stars in backs and forwards?

royaldunne (Meath) - Posts: 19449 - 20/02/2015 10:16:36    1695227

Brian Whelehan won All Star at wing back and full forward for offaly in hurling

Gael85 (Dublin) - Posts: 1433 - 20/02/2015 10:38:29    1695234

No allstars but from the current Cavan panel I think Martin Reilly has possibly played in every line bar midfield. Mark McKeever has played a lot of football in both the backs and the forwards.

It's distinctly possible that Anthony Forde played in every outfield position for Cavan over the years.

Breffni40 (Cavan) - Posts: 12372 - 20/02/2015 11:02:35    1695239

In Limerick alone Paudie Fitzmaurice, Eamon Rea, Willie Moore, Mickey Graham, Pat Hartigan, Eamon Cregan Jackie Power and Mossie Dowling all played in defence and attack

Oldtourman (Limerick) - Posts: 4500 - 20/02/2015 11:13:21    1695245

ger power won allstars at wingback, wingforward and corner forward

flack (Dublin) - Posts: 1054 - 20/02/2015 11:33:28    1695257

brian corcoran also won allstars at cornerback, centreback and fullforward

flack (Dublin) - Posts: 1054 - 20/02/2015 11:37:43    1695258

The real question should be..

Players who made the transition very successfully.

ziggy320001 (Meath) - Posts: 2432 - 20/02/2015 11:39:08    1695259

TJ Ryan Limreick I believe played both in defence & attack.Wing forward and full back I believe.Did Ciaran Carey play in the forwards as well ? From memory did he start his career there at center forward ?
Benny Dunne Tipperary played wing back , midfield & wing forward.
Diarmuid Fitzgerald Tipperary also played center back and corner forward.
Ken McGrath Waterford was also used in both attack & defence.
Darragh Egan current Tipp sub goalkeeper is also a natural forward. plays there for his club and played with Tipp in the forwards too few years ago.

WildPundit (Tipperary) - Posts: 1709 - 20/02/2015 11:52:19    1695266

Brian Begley played full back & full forward in both football and hurling for Limerick

Peter Kelly and Michael Carton started out as forwards for Dublin hurlers are now playing in defence

Gael85 (Dublin) - Posts: 1433 - 20/02/2015 12:37:22    1695279

The question should be name an intercounty defender who became a GOOD forward.
Way too many defenders get converted to forwards to win the "dirty" ball around the middle in place of a genuine forward thinking player!

Tommy Walsh hurling, Graham geraghty the obvious examples. Graham Reilly I think his name was who ended up playing for meath at full forward and kicked the winner in the AI final replay.

woops (Kerry) - Posts: 2073 - 20/02/2015 12:41:00    1695282

So graham geraghty , nudie Hughes ger power. Who else?

royaldunne (Meath) - Posts: 19449 - 20/02/2015 12:42:35    1695283

20/02/2015 12:41:00
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1695282 The question should be name an intercounty defender who became a GOOD forward.
Way too many defenders get converted to forwards to win the "dirty" ball around the middle in place of a genuine forward thinking player!

Tommy Walsh hurling, Graham geraghty the obvious examples. Graham Reilly I think his name was who ended up playing for meath at full forward and kicked the winner in the AI final replay.


Brendan Reilly

Gael85 (Dublin) - Posts: 1433 - 20/02/2015 13:05:26    1695292

Woops Brendan Reilly, hopefully Graham Reilly will kick the winning point in a all ire final in next 4/5 years though.

royaldunne (Meath) - Posts: 19449 - 20/02/2015 13:19:20    1695297

Woops
Eamon Cregan stared off as a gaoalkeeper and [played successfully in every other position in the field except corner back. Ironically his father Ned won his All Ireland medal as a corner back

Oldtourman (Limerick) - Posts: 4500 - 20/02/2015 14:52:31    1695337

Francie GreHan was a class act in centre half back and no 11.some left foot

Ros2013 (Roscommon) - Posts: 534 - 20/02/2015 15:57:03    1695356

Joe McNally - from goalkeeper with minors to corner forward!

hurlingdub (Dublin) - Posts: 6978 - 20/02/2015 16:23:07    1695359

Ahh if we want to go down that road, paddy O'Rourke goalkeeper turned full forward back to goal keeper, and plays outfield for club.

royaldunne (Meath) - Posts: 19449 - 20/02/2015 17:28:52    1695368

Again going down the goalie route, Darren Hughes was goalie for the county minors when he was 18, and even then he was only chosen because the no. 1 got injured and Darren was picked because he had a good kick out. Mad to think otherwise he wasn't selected outfield. You could literally put him in any position and he'd be one of our best performers, such a complete player. He's played from full-back to midfield and also in the forwards on occasion and of course he was goalie in our run to the Ulster final in 2010!

On another note, McManus didn't make the panel that same year for our county minors, crazy to think of now as they're arguably our two most important players, and only two years later in 2007 they were playing in an Ulster final and an AI quarter-final.

patk (Monaghan) - Posts: 939 - 20/02/2015 18:12:38    1695378

royaldunne, Big Joe went from being goalkeeper on All Ireland winning team to left corner on AI senior winning team. All within a year! Surely unique?

hurlingdub (Dublin) - Posts: 6978 - 21/02/2015 10:05:38    1695432

Bryan Sheehan played in goal for the Kerry minors

beir_bua (Kildare) - Posts: 746 - 21/02/2015 10:42:14    1695437