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How do you rank these Irish sporting heroes

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  • 08-05-2013 1:19am
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    Godot.
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    Brian O'Driscoll
    Sonia O'Sullivan
    Ken Doherty
    Pat Spillane
    Stephen Roche
    Katie Taylor
    Padraig Harrington
    Ruby Walsh
    Henry Shefflin
    Roy Keane

    In order of preference (top = favourite; bottom = least favourite)


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    Wacker The Attacker
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    A.N Other


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    The Backwards Man
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    They are all sportspeople in my book.


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    Chuck Stone
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    BOD by a mile.


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    COYVB
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    Godot. wrote: »
    Brian O'Driscoll
    Sonia O'Sullivan
    Ken Doherty
    Pat Spillane
    Stephen Roche
    Katie Taylor
    Padraig Harrington
    Ruby Walsh
    Henry Shefflin
    Roy Keane

    In order of preference (top = favourite; bottom = least favourite)
    Every single one of them below Paul McGrath

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    Wacker The Attacker
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    The Backwards Man wrote: »
    They are all sportspeople in my book.

    no sh1t


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    ColeTrain
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    No Michelle Smith de Bruin? What kind of show are you running here :mad:


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    Wacker The Attacker
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    COYVB wrote: »
    Every single one of them below Paul McGrath

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    Indeed


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    Weevil
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    I would use a numbered list system-


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    darced
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    The Backwards Man
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    Wacker The Attacker wrote: »
    no sh1t
    No. The sh1t is in the other thread.:p


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    harney
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    Godot. wrote: »
    Brian O'Driscoll
    Sonia O'Sullivan
    Ken Doherty
    Pat Spillane
    Stephen Roche
    Katie Taylor
    Padraig Harrington
    Ruby Walsh
    Henry Shefflin
    Roy Keane

    In order of preference (top = favourite; bottom = least favourite)

    I had to google Henry Shefflin, and I was sure Ruby Walsh was a horse until another quick google corrected that mistake. But Roche before Kelly :confused:

    Apart from that, eh, where was I again Ted?


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    Seaneh
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    Having Stephen Roche and not Seán Kelly is laughable.

    Seán Kelly is one of the greatest cyclists of the last 40 years, Roche isn't a patch on him.


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    buyer95
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    harney wrote: »
    I had to google Henry Shefflin,

    Smh


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    AnonoBoy
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    I suppose I'd rank them in order of sporting achievements.

    How would you rank them?


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    General General
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    What about yer man who won the coldest marathon in the world & it was his second or third marathon?

    Liam Brady is missing from this list.

    & what of Oliver St. John Gogarty? Didn't he win an Olympic medal? So what if it was in poetry... he was a good goalie.


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    mrkiscool2
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    General General wrote: »
    What about yer man who won the coldest marathon in the world & it was his second or third marathon?
    The teacher from Galway?? Who almost qualified for the Olympics last year? It wasn't his 2nd or 3rd Marathon, and beating 40 others once hardly qualifies as a reason to put him in the top Irish Sportspeople

    Also, not including the likes of Sean Kelly, Liam Brady, John Giles, Paul McGrath, Paidi O'Se to name but a few is ridiculous.


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    batistuta9
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    ColeTrain wrote: »
    No Michelle Smith de Bruin? What kind of show are you running here :mad:

    a drug free one


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    ColeTrain
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    batistuta9 wrote: »
    a drug free one

    That's a show I wouldn't attend :mad:


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    Cody Pomeray
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    LIST wrote:
    Pat Spillane
    Ruby Walsh
    Brian O'Driscoll
    Henry Shefflin
    Roy Keane
    Sonia O'Sullivan
    Katie Taylor
    Stephen Roche
    Padraig Harrington

    I've removed Ken Doherty from the list because that's just ridiculous.


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    errlloyd
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    BOD
    Keane
    Taylor

    Don't care much for the rest.


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    IM0
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    Godot. wrote: »
    Brian O'Driscoll
    Sonia O'Sullivan
    Ken Doherty
    Pat Spillane
    Stephen Roche
    Katie Taylor
    Padraig Harrington
    Ruby Walsh
    Henry Shefflin
    Roy Keane

    In order of preference (top = favourite; bottom = least favourite)

    stephen roche [he has done what only one other person in the world ever has manged to achieve!]
    sean kelly [again one of the best in the world ever

    feck the rest of the run of the mills sports people in the list

    brian O'Driscoll
    Sonia O'Sullivan
    Ken Doherty
    Pat Spillane
    Katie Taylor
    Padraig Harrington
    Ruby Walsh
    Henry Shefflin
    Roy Keane


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    mrkiscool2
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    IM0 wrote: »
    feck the rest of the run of the mills sports people in the list

    brian O'Driscoll
    BOD is one of the greatest rugby players of all time? How can you even claim he is a "run of the mill" sports person? Perhaps the greatest sports person to ever come from this country is BOD!


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    mcwinning
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    Sonia O'Sullivan - Consistently among the worlds best for a long period.
    Brian O'Driscoll - Ditto, always performed for Ireland and an absolute warrior.
    Katie Taylor - May end up being our greatest Olympian ever with another Gold. Successful in 2 sports.
    Roy Keane - Captain of one of the best teams in the world and incredible leader.

    Stephen Roche - 1 great year winning the Tour de France and Giro d'Italia.

    Pat Spillane
    Henry Shefflin - Both great in their own right but I think international achievements rank higher than national ones.

    Padraig Harrington - Great at his sport but I feel that the higher physical demands of other sports puts Golfing achievements below other sports.
    Ken Doherty - See above, also less success in his sport than Harrington.
    Ruby Walsh - Maybe personal bias but I dislike equestrian sports and feel that the fact that the horse is the one that actually runs fast automatically ranks this below any sport that a person is the one running.


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    COYVB
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    mrkiscool2 wrote: »
    Perhaps the greatest sports person to ever come from this country is BOD!

    Someone just showed Paul this post

    saiHcPB.jpg


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    mrkiscool2
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    COYVB wrote: »
    Someone just showed Paul this post

    saiHcPB.jpg
    Oh sorry, I completely forgot. Paul McGrath was the greatest defender of all time whereas BOD is clearly not in that league, he surely isn't one of the greatest, if not the greatest center, of all time. :rolleyes: Also, I totally forgot that Paul McGrath was once named player of the decade, whereas Brian O'Driscoll was not. :rolleyes:


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    IM0
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    mcwinning wrote: »
    Stephen Roche - 1 great year winning the Tour de France and Giro d'Italia.

    AND the world champships, only one other person has ever done that, and it will never be done again


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    MrCreosote
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    Sonia O'Sullivan head and shoulders above the rest. She was always a contender for 10 years when EPO doping was rampant and undetectable. Cheated out of medals in Barcelona and Sydney and by those "turtle-blood" Chinese, and yet she still came back.

    Sean Kelly and Stephen Roche are both dope cheats. Tough, successful and amazing athletes, but cheats nonetheless.


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    IM0
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    MrCreosote wrote: »
    Sean Kelly and Stephen Roche are both dope cheats. Tough, successful and amazing athletes, but cheats nonetheless.

    your confusing them with michelle smith ;)


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    #30
    Micky Dolenz
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    If only we had a sports forum. That would be cool, we could discuss sporty things. Might suggest one.


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    Schnitzel Muncher
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    You forgot Eddie Irvine.


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