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Great Players of the 1980's

  • 11-07-2013 9:34pm
    #1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 738 ✭✭✭


    Well lads and ladies. I'm doing a bit of research at the moment for a friend of mine for a future project. Question I have is..

    Who do ye think are some of the greatest footballers and hurlers who played in the 1980's never to win an all-ireland medal?

    Thanks in advance. Players and counties.

    I'll start by saying

    Willie Joe Padden (Mayo)


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,823 ✭✭✭SureYWouldntYa


    as usual in these discussions and rightfully so, the late great Dermot Earley of Roscommon


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,363 ✭✭✭Juniorhurler


    Plunkett Donaghy and Kevin O Brien


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,449 ✭✭✭megadodge


    Tony McManus and Harry Keegan, both Roscommon.
    Dessie Barry (Longford).
    Frank McGuigan (Tyrone) father of Brian.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,321 ✭✭✭Martin567


    Sean Stack & Ger Loughnane (Clare) and Mick Jacob (Wexford).


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,101 ✭✭✭klairondavis


    Colm Browne (Laois) and Ollie Crinnigan (Kildare)


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,367 ✭✭✭Thinkstoomuch


    Kevin Kehily Cork footballer
    Retired in mid 80's.

    Won an all star at full back.in 80 and Corner back on 82.

    Not old enough to see him. Play but heard me father talk enough about him.Teak tough defender who often done well on the Bomber Liston.


    Dont think any of our hurlers apply as any old players won medals in 76-78 while younger lads from 80s upwards won medals in 84 and 86 etc.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,971 ✭✭✭✭Fr Tod Umptious


    At a stretch you could include Liam McHale.
    Even though he is better known for his exploits in 1996 he played in a semi and final in 1988 and 1989


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,111 ✭✭✭manofwisdom


    Kevin McCabe (Tyrone)
    Joe Kernan (Armagh)
    Tony Scullion (Derry)*
    Danny Murray (Roscommon)
    Dermot Flanagan (Mayo)
    Val Daly (Galway)



    *Did when All Ireland in 93 after years of trying in the 80s


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,134 ✭✭✭Tom Joad


    Am biased of course but Stephen King (Cavan) was up there in a very bad period for Cavan football.

    Nudie Hughes was at the height of his powers in a very good Monaghan team that won Ulster in 1985 and 1988 along with the league in 1985 - Nudie was a beast and won three All Stars in that era.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,847 ✭✭✭✭padd b1975


    Tony McManus jnr. Roscommon.

    Tony Doran. Wexford.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,042 ✭✭✭slegs


    padd b1975 wrote: »
    Tony McManus jnr. Roscommon.

    Tony Doran. Wexford.

    Tony Doran won an All Ireland in 1968


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,873 ✭✭✭✭Ash.J.Williams


    Kevin O'brien, dermot early snr, dermot early jnr.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 975 ✭✭✭J Cheever Loophole


    Tom Joad wrote: »
    Nudie Hughes was at the height of his powers in a very good Monaghan team that won Ulster in 1985 and 1988 along with the league in 1985 - Nudie was a beast and won three All Stars in that era.

    Being an Armagh supporter dating back to the seventies, I recall Nudie in his prime, and it is but right that he gets mentioned here. Furthermore, Nudie is one of a very select few who have won All Stars both as a defender and attacker, which in my opinion adds to his credentials.

    With that in mind, I would have to mention our own Paddy Moriarty who played well into the 1980s and was a holder of two All Stars - one at corner forward, and the other at centre half back.

    And while I'm being totally parochial, I should also mention our own Johnny Corvan who was an exceptional talent. He only ever made an All Star trip as a replacement, but was the first name mentioned by Charlie Nelligan as a guest on "Know Your Sport", when asked by Jimmy Magee as to who were the best forwards he had ever come up against.

    Edit - Peter McGinnity of Fermanagh is also worthy of mention - an All Star in 1982.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 285 ✭✭sasol


    Seanie O'Leary, Tony O'Sullivan, Jimmy Barry Murphy, and John Fenton : Cork

    Pete Finnerty, Tony Keady : Galway . You could include Gerry McInerney here also, although I don't know how much of the 80's he was around for.

    Christy Heffernan, Ger Fennelly : Kilkenny

    John Callinan : Clare

    Joe McKenna : Limerick

    Nicky English : Tipp


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,966 ✭✭✭Syferus


    Kevin O'brien, dermot early snr, dermot early jnr.

    :eek:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,706 ✭✭✭premierstone


    sasol wrote: »
    Seanie O'Leary, Tony O'Sullivan, Jimmy Barry Murphy, and John Fenton : Cork

    Pete Finnerty, Tony Keady : Galway . You could include Gerry McInerney here also, although I don't know how much of the 80's he was around for.

    Christy Heffernan, Ger Fennelly : Kilkenny

    John Callinan : Clare

    Joe McKenna : Limerick

    Nicky English : Tipp

    All fine hurlers listed but I don't think you read the OP very carefully, esp the bolded part!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,367 ✭✭✭Thinkstoomuch


    sasol wrote: »
    Seanie O'Leary, Tony O'Sullivan, Jimmy Barry Murphy, and John Fenton : Cork

    Pete Finnerty, Tony Keady : Galway . You could include Gerry McInerney here also, although I don't know how much of the 80's he was around for.

    Christy Heffernan, Ger Fennelly : Kilkenny

    John Callinan : Clare

    Joe McKenna : Limerick

    Nicky English : Tipp

    The cork lads won in 84 and 86 so you are wrong here.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,706 ✭✭✭premierstone


    The cork lads won in 84 and 86 so you are wrong here.

    John Callinan is the only one on the list that hasn't won one, as I said above he clearly didn't read the OP correctly, Callinan is a good shout though!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 285 ✭✭sasol


    All fine hurlers listed but I don't think you read the OP very carefully, esp the bolded part!

    I made a balls of that.

    I didn't read the "never to win an all-Ireland" part


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,348 ✭✭✭paul71


    Leo Turley - Laois

    Stefan White - Louth

    Kevin O'Brien - Wicklow (already mentioned)

    There is a Down and a Leitrim player neither of whose names I recall at the moment who I will look up.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,537 ✭✭✭Mike Guide 69


    Matt Connor - Offaly. One of the most natural and gifted players of his generation, part of the famous 1982 Offaly team that beat Kerry in the final. His playing career was sadly cut short by a car accident, but he was a remarkable footballer. Maurice Fitzgerald was the closet i've seen to matching his style and football abiliity


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,631 ✭✭✭Dirty Dingus McGee


    Matt Connor - Offaly. One of the most natural and gifted players of his generation, part of the famous 1982 Offaly team that beat Kerry in the final. His playing career was sadly cut short by a car accident, but he was a remarkable footballer. Maurice Fitzgerald was the closet i've seen to matching his style and football abiliity

    Every season Matt Connor played Intercounty football he was the top scorer in ireland in league and championship.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,348 ✭✭✭paul71


    Matt Connor - Offaly. One of the most natural and gifted players of his generation, part of the famous 1982 Offaly team that beat Kerry in the final. His playing career was sadly cut short by a car accident, but he was a remarkable footballer. Maurice Fitzgerald was the closet i've seen to matching his style and football abiliity

    He has an All-Ireland medal so does not qualify.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,537 ✭✭✭Mike Guide 69


    Every season Matt Connor played Intercounty football he was the top scorer in ireland in league and championship.


    Sorry just read the title, players who havent won an All Ireland medal, but in fairness, he was a player that should have won more. If he did not have that accident , who knows how many more winning medals he would have collected...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,636 ✭✭✭feargale


    Those deemed the 15 best hurlers of the 1980s never to win an All-Ireland will be honoured at the final next Sunday. Two that I thought unlucky to lose out were Sean Hehir and Joe Henry,


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,847 ✭✭✭✭padd b1975


    feargale wrote: »
    Those deemed the 15 best hurlers of the 1980s never to win an All-Ireland will be honoured at the final next Sunday. Two that I thought unlucky to lose out were Sean Hehir and Joe Henry,
    That guy was a one man team throughout the 1980s, shame he never got a run out in the Railway Cup I always thought.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,636 ✭✭✭feargale


    padd b1975 wrote: »
    That guy was a one man team throughout the 1980s, shame he never got a run out in the Railway Cup I always thought.

    He did actually, and won two, I think, with Connacht.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 287 ✭✭Username2011


    fearruanua wrote: »
    Well lads and ladies. I'm doing a bit of research at the moment for a friend of mine for a future project. Question I have is..

    Who do ye think are some of the greatest footballers and hurlers who played in the 1980's never to win an all-ireland medal?

    Thanks in advance. Players and counties.

    I'll start by saying

    Willie Joe Padden (Mayo)


    Interesting - http://comms.irishtimes.com/stars-of-the-80s/2013/.ashx


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,969 ✭✭✭buck65


    Neil PAtterson Antrim. Slip of a thing.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 738 ✭✭✭fearruanua




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25 fizzyboy


    I was surprised Mick Jacob didn't make the team of the 80s unless he won a medal in 68 as a sub. Other than that I wouldn't have too may complaints with the team


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25 fizzyboy


    My football team:

    Brian McAlinden
    Harry Keegan
    Kevin Kehily (presume he wasn't a sub in 73??)
    Dermot Flanagan
    Kevin McCabe
    Paddy Moriarty
    Seamus McHugh
    Willie Joe Padden
    Dermot Earley snr
    Peter McGinnitty
    Eugene McKenna
    Joe Kernan
    Eugene Hughes
    Frank McGuigan
    Tony McManus

    Would like to find a place for Kevin O'Brien...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,684 ✭✭✭FatherTed


    fizzyboy wrote: »
    I was surprised Mick Jacob didn't make the team of the 80s unless he won a medal in 68 as a sub. Other than that I wouldn't have too may complaints with the team

    1 P. Nolan
    2 T. Neville
    3 E. Kelly
    4 N. Colfer
    5 V. Staples
    6 D. Quigley (c)
    7 W. Murphy
    8 P. Wilson
    9 D. Bernie
    10 P. Lynch
    11 T. Doran
    12 C. Jacob
    13 J. O'Brien
    14 S. Whelan
    15 J. Berry

    Sub used
    J. Quigley for S. Whelan

    Subs not used
    P. Nolan
    T. O'Connor
    M. Jacob
    M. Kinsella
    S. Barron
    N. Buggy
    M. Browne
    J. Furlong
    Manager
    P. Kehoe

    Selector
    N. Rackard
    Trainer
    N. Power


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26 hotd


    Mick Kennedy. A stalwart at corner back for Dublin


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,966 ✭✭✭Syferus


    fizzyboy wrote: »
    My football team:

    Brian McAlinden
    Harry Keegan
    Kevin Kehily (presume he wasn't a sub in 73??)
    Dermot Flanagan
    Kevin McCabe
    Paddy Moriarty
    Seamus McHugh
    Willie Joe Padden
    Dermot Earley snr
    Peter McGinnitty
    Eugene McKenna
    Joe Kernan
    Eugene Hughes
    Frank McGuigan
    Tony McManus

    Would like to find a place for Kevin O'Brien...

    Great stuff Fizzy, you were very close to the official team:
    1. BRIAN McALINDEN (Armagh / Sarsfields): First-choice goalkeeper with Armagh from 1976 until late 1980s. Won 4 Railway Cup medals and in 1986 was reserve ‘keeper for the International Rules series in Australia. Formerly joint county manager with Brian Canavan.

    2. HARRY KEEGAN (Roscommon / Castlerea): Regarded as one of the greatest corner backs to play with Roscommon, he was named on their ‘Best Team of the Last 25 years.’ Won All Star awards in 1978, 1980 and 1986.

    3. KEVIN KEHILLY (Cork / Newcestown): Played in 1974 and 1983 All-Ireland semi-finals with Cork. Winner of five Railway Cup medals and All Stars in 1980 and 1982. Was trainer with Cork’s treble-winning hurling team of the seventies.

    4. SÉAMUS McHUGH (Galway / Headford): Made senior debut with Galway in 1975 and captained team in the 1983 All-Ireland final. An All Star winner in 1981 and 1984, he played eight games in the International Rules Series, including the inaugural Australian tour in 1986.

    5. JIM REILLY (Cavan / Kingscourt): A household name in Cavan all through the eighties, he played in all three tests in the 1987 International Rules Series. He won Railway Cup medals in 1983, 1984 and 1989.

    6. CIARÁN MURRAY (Monaghan / Clones): Member of the Monaghan team which won the League title in 1985, he played six games in the International Rules series. An All Star award winner in 1985, in later years he gained notoriety as physiotherapist to the Irish soccer team.

    7. COLM BROWNE (Laois / Portlaoise): Won an All-Ireland club medal in 1983 and Railway Cup medals in 1985, 1986 and 1987 – when he played in the final test against Australia. Won an All Star award in 1986 and managed Laois and Tipperary.

    8. DERMOT EARLEY (Roscommon / Michael Glaveys/Sarsfields, Newbridge, RIP): Played with Roscommon for twenty years and is regarded as one of the greatest footballers never to win an All-Ireland, A member of the last Connacht team to win the Railway Cup in 1969, he won the county’s first All Star in 1974 and another in 1979. Managed Roscommon and Kildare.

    9. WILLIE JOE PADDEN (Mayo / Belmullet): Voted fourth best ever midfielder in a national poll, he was especially renowned for his high-fielding ability. Won an All Star in 1985 and another in 1989, when he played with Mayo in the All-Ireland final.

    10. PETER McGINNITY (Fermanagh / Roslea): Won county medals in his native Fermanagh and Antrim – lining out with St. John’s in the 1978 All-Ireland club final. Winner of Railway Cup medals in 1979, 1980, 1983 and 1984 and the county’s first All Star winner in 1982. Co-commentator with BBC Ulster in their TV coverage.

    11. EUGENE McKENNA (Tyrone / Augher): Tyrone’s captain in their first All-Ireland senior final appearance in 1986, he won All Star awards in 1984, 1986 and 1989 and won Railway Cup medals in 1983, 1984 and 1989. Involved with Art McRory in the management of the county team in the late 90s.

    12. KEVIN O’BRIEN (Wicklow / Baltinglass): Played four times for Ireland, including the tour to Australia in 1990 – when he was Wicklow’s first All Star recipient and won an All-Ireland club medal. A Railway Cup medal-winner in 1986 and 1996, he was a selector with Mick O’Dwyer.

    13. EUGENE ‘NUDIE’ HUGHES (Monaghan / Castleblaney): Monaghan’s first All Star in 1979 and again honoured in 1985 and 1988 – one of a select group to win awards in defence and attack. Member of NFL-winning side of 1985 and Railway Cup winner in 1980, 1983 and 1984.

    14. FRANK McGUIGAN (Tyrone / Ardboe): A legend in Tyrone, forever remembered for his 0-11 in the 1984 Ulster final, he won an All Star and Railway Cup medal the same year. Captain in the 1972 All-Ireland minor final, he played in the senior semi-final the following year. Career interrupted when he spent several years in the US and ended prematurely by a serious injury.

    15. TONY McMANUS (Roscommon / Clan na nGael): An All-Ireland Under-21 medal winner with Roscommon in 1978. Won six Connacht senior medals and a key figure in his club’s pre-eminence in the province in the 80s. An All Star winner in 1989, he won three Sigerson Cup medals with UCD.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25 fizzyboy


    In fairness I did use the All-Stars as a guide......couldn't really quibble with the team I have to say.

    I'm sure there'll be something similar for the 90s in a few years time which will have us guessing again.......


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 975 ✭✭✭J Cheever Loophole


    fizzyboy wrote: »
    In fairness I did use the All-Stars as a guide......couldn't really quibble with the team I have to say.

    Well then your picking of Brian McAlinden is deserving of respect.

    One of the great injustices was McAlinden never getting an All Star. He really should have had one I thought in 1977 - two brilliant saves in the semi-final replay against Roscommon got us over the line in a one point match - the highlight of a very good season for him (although on reflection he may have suffered for shipping the five goals in the final, one of which was a "speculative effort" from Jimmy Keaveny).

    He was though at the forefront of goal-keeping for a decade or more but missed subsquent opportunities to be rewarded at All Star level due to Armagh's poor form.


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