Gooch is and was awesome but Peter Canavan and Matt Connor very much with him. Outside of the typical names thrown about you would have to include Mattie Forde and Declan Browne

sportsfan14 (USA) - Posts: 281 - 09/06/2015 12:03:42    1734552

Tyrone won an All Ireland without your "God"

clondalkindub (Dublin) - Posts: 9926 - 09/06/2015 12:11:46    1734555

Find the space, the only Ulster team that kerry have struggled against in the modern era is yourselves (and they beat ye the last time ye played in the championship).
Donegal, Derry,Armagh,Tyrone,Fermanagh,Monaghan,Cavan,Antrim have all been beaten by the Kingdom at least once sine the Goochs arrival.

joncarter (Galway) - Posts: 2692 - 09/06/2015 12:14:27    1734556

Find the space
If by your god you are speaking about Peter canavan then ya I have to say he had it ( natural footballism ) but dooher and cavanagh didn't and don't have it, dooher was just a ball of energy with a serious engine and cavanagh is just a horse , he's a classy horse but a horse all the same, no canavan had it for sure.

Dub John
I can't speak for fellow county fans as I go to all Kerry games but I know that money wouldn't be as plenty full down this side of the country as it would be in the Dublin region, the price of petrol and diesel isn't cheap and sometimes work and other commitments can have something to do with it, I mean we don't all have it as easy as ye'r selfs where ye can roll out of bed at 11:00 cook a dinner go outside the front door jump on a bus or the luas and be at croke park in half an hour and home again by 6 o'clock with the day costing a dub maybe €30 to €35 it would cost a Kerry person at least 3 times that amount. Also ye had a double header in crokepark 2 weeks ago and there was supposedly only 20,000 at it. So what ye'r excuse?

And we would apreciate gooch if he played for another county, how couldn't you?

KingdomBoy1 (Kerry) - Posts: 14092 - 09/06/2015 14:41:28    1734675

Welcome back Gooch, always a pleasure to see a great.

SeppBlatter (Dublin) - Posts: 187 - 09/06/2015 15:00:42    1734689

If he is the best how come no club AI? A man of his talent could clearly win it alone? ;)

DoireCityFC (Derry) - Posts: 1580 - 09/06/2015 15:57:56    1734726

Hard to disagree with any of the mentioned players.All brilliant footballers. Great skills etc. If all those players were in their prime and available today my first pick would be Jack O'Shea and I would then fill in the rest of the spots.

Gaa Fan (USA) - Posts: 763 - 09/06/2015 16:10:57    1734742

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Tyrone won an All Ireland without your "God"


thank christ someone said that!!

canavan was good, yes. . . but not a million miles ahead of Stephen O'Neill, for example. Sean Cavanagh is/was better all-round than both.

And that's just Tyrone.

Very hard to argue with anyone who picks Matt Connor - really was the complete full-forward. But likewise Moynihan and T O'Shea were the complete defenders. Gooch is certainly up there as is Maurice Fitz and Mikey Sheehy. Spillane deserves a mention in the forwards too.

If i was to pick just one player, who I think would excel in any era, who was a complete, all round player, was skillful and equally tough. .Jack O'Shea!

cavanman47 (Cavan) - Posts: 5292 - 09/06/2015 16:12:39    1734743

canavan was good, yes. . . but not a million miles ahead of Stephen O'Neill, for example. Sean Cavanagh is/was better all-round than both.

In what sense? Cavanagh isn't much of a traditional midfielder really.

I'd have Canavan, then O'Neill then Cavanagh in order of preference.

MichaelO (Tyrone) - Posts: 820 - 09/06/2015 17:35:30    1734781

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In what sense? Cavanagh isn't much of a traditional midfielder really.


no, id agree with that. a more natural wing forward and won POTY year at full forward. .but if anything that just shows his all-round ability, couldn't see Canavan excelling at midfield in the same way Sean did at full forward.

cavanman47 (Cavan) - Posts: 5292 - 09/06/2015 17:58:01    1734792

if anything that just shows his all-round ability, couldn't see Canavan excelling at midfield in the same way Sean did at full forward.

i think there's a fairly obvious reason for that heh.

MichaelO (Tyrone) - Posts: 820 - 09/06/2015 19:08:55    1734816

Colm Cooper is ridiculously good.

Treaty_Exile (Limerick) - Posts: 386 - 09/06/2015 19:25:38    1734826

I have had the pleasure of seeing Matt Connor, Peter Canavan and Colm Cooper in the flesh. For me he 3 greatest forwards we've seen and for that reason I can't pick who was the greatest!!!

croker16 (Louth) - Posts: 349 - 09/06/2015 19:28:54    1734828

Donnellan was very good but Padraig Joyce was great.

GreenandRed (Mayo) - Posts: 8149 - 09/06/2015 21:58:51    1734930

I'd have to put Michael Murphy up there with a few of the names mentioned.

crikey (Australia) - Posts: 355 - 11/06/2015 12:15:46    1735570

Maurice Fitzgerald the best I've seen
Unlucky he started playing for Kerry in 1988. Scored 10 points in Munster final as an -8 year old

Elvis1935 (Mayo) - Posts: 46 - 12/06/2015 15:53:39    1736123

An 18 year even :) wasn't that good lol

Elvis1935 (Mayo) - Posts: 46 - 12/06/2015 15:55:21    1736124