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Football's most beautiful players to watch in past 20 years

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    #62
    seligehgit
    Registered Users Posts: 9,286 ✭✭✭seligehgit


    Comic Book Guy wrote: »
    Niall Sheridan was the Longford man you were talking about. Overweight but was great target man with proper service.
    Think Geoffrey McGonagle might be the derry forward you are thinking of.

    You're on the money,could'nt for the life of me think of that lad's name,fine footballer.If he lost a few pounds he could have been unreal.


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    #63
    threeball
    Registered Users Posts: 8,018 ✭✭✭threeball


    Comic Book Guy wrote: »
    Niall Sheridan was the Longford man you were talking about. Overweight but was great target man with proper service.
    Think Geoffrey McGonagle might be the derry forward you are thinking of.

    Bang on, on both.

    Specialist subject on mastermind, obscure footballers of yesteryear :D


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    #64
    Nidgeweasel
    Registered Users Posts: 2,621 ✭✭✭Nidgeweasel


    seligehgit wrote: »
    You're on the money,could'nt for the life of me think of that lad's name,fine footballer.If he lost a few pounds he could have been unreal.

    "An arse like a bag of cement". He was a wild drinker apparently. Unsurprisingly given the shape of him!


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    #65
    TCDStudent1
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    Nidgeweasel wrote: »
    "An arse like a bag of cement". He was a wild drinker apparently. Unsurprisingly given the shape of him!

    Played hurling for Derry too if I remember correctly.


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    #66
    DDC1990
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    You'd never describe Dara O'Sé as elegant, but he was the finest midfielder of his generation.


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    #67
    The_Honeybadger
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    Colin corkery wouldn't be regarded as stylish but but what a player


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    #68
    keane2097
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    Corkery was very stylish


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    #69
    OldMrBrennan83
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    #70
    Hammer Archer
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    Lads, while I think the discussion is a great one (jaysis, Geoffrey McGonagle was a blast from the past), what do ye think of making it into its own thread?


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    #71
    The_Honeybadger
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    keane2097 wrote: »
    Corkery was very stylish

    Poor choice of words, gifted footballer but didn't look the part is what I meant


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    #72
    OldMrBrennan83
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    #73
    Nidgeweasel
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    Hammer Archer wrote: »
    Lads, while I think the discussion is a great one (jaysis, Geoffrey McGonagle was a blast from the past), what do ye think of making it into its own thread?

    "Obscure 90's footballers with big arses and questionable fitness regimes"


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    #74
    Jayop
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    Nidgeweasel wrote: »
    "Obscure 90's footballers with big arses and questionable fitness regimes"

    Sounds great but I'd be ****e at it because gaa was only invented in, 2003 as far as I was concerned.


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    #75
    ArnoldJRimmer
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    Nidgeweasel wrote: »
    "Obscure 90's footballers with big arses and questionable fitness regimes"

    Lets not forget the GAA king of the bellies, although it was the small ball, Niall Paterson

    https://twitter.com/gaanostalgia/status/531063188499218432


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    #76
    harpsman
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    mickeyk wrote: »
    Poor choice of words, gifted footballer but didn't look the part is what I meant

    Yeah if you saw him in a club game youd say he was some big halion they roped in to make up a team and couldnt find a pair of shorts or jersey to fit him. Until the first time you saw him on the ball


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    #77
    Dyr
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    seligehgit wrote: »
    Michael Dara McCauley?

    For some reason I always think he has his tongue sticking out the side of his mouth when he's running with the ball..like a thick kid doing a maths question


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    #78
    Cheese Wagstaff
    Registered Users Posts: 677 ✭✭✭Cheese Wagstaff


    MDMcA being called an excellent footballer and being mentioned in the same company as Brian Dooher.

    Jesus wept.


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    #79
    Dyr
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    Nidgeweasel wrote: »
    "An arse like a bag of cement". He was a wild drinker apparently. Unsurprisingly given the shape of him!

    Back then a massive hoop on a forward was handy for bumping a full back out the road


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    #80
    aidan24326
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    keane2097 wrote: »
    Corkery was very stylish

    I agree, although he was as slow as a tortoise but made up for it with a great kicking style and the strength to win his own ball.

    I do remember an amusing Sunday Game live show where Spillane in the pre-match discussion went on a rant about how Corkery was clearly overweight and unfit and shouldn't be on the pitch (in fairness Corkery had definitely put on a few pounds) and of course Colin Corkery then went on to give an exhibition of effortless points scoring off left and right. Put Pat back in his box big time!


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    #81
    homerjay2005
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    List is fine apart from the fact McDonald is at two. The most over rated footballer of our generation, people seem to forget he was a laughing stock in Mayo and disliked/booed by his own fans for years before he had one good game against Dublin.


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    Hammer Archer
    Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 11,399 Mod ✭✭✭✭Hammer Archer


    Don't think anyone mentioned Declan Browne. The things he could do with a football was just ridiculous! One of the greatest I've seen in the flesh.


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    #83
    corny
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    Jayop wrote: »
    A better one could be who are the top ten excellent footballers who looked awful?

    Ill start with Brian Dooher.

    What looked awful about Dooher?


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    OldMrBrennan83
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    #85
    Audioslaven
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    homerjay2005 wrote: »
    List is fine apart from the fact McDonald is at two. The most over rated footballer of our generation, people seem to forget he was a laughing stock in Mayo and disliked/booed by his own fans for years before he had one good game against Dublin.


    Mcdonald was never laughed at in Mayo. Its just a few dicks that give him hassle. You don't have a clue what you are on about. He was an unreal talent that served Mayo for years. He had many good games in the green and red. It just people expected him to win every game for mayo. It a team game not tennis.


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    #86
    yop
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    Hammer Archer wrote: »
    Don't think anyone mentioned Declan Browne. The things he could do with a football was just ridiculous! One of the greatest I've seen in the flesh.

    Totally forgot about him. We were searching for Mayo blood in him!!! :)

    Sublime player to watch.


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    #87
    paul71
    Registered Users Posts: 3,189 ✭✭✭paul71


    Nidgeweasel wrote: »
    "Obscure 90's footballers with big arses and questionable fitness regimes"

    Joe McNally, Jayus he had some gut on him but sweet striker of a ball.


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    #88
    corny
    Registered Users Posts: 7,783 ✭✭✭corny


    Patww79 wrote: »
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    Well i don't know what constitutes attractive for you but I found his carrying and long range shooting a sight to behold at times. Each to their own...


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    #89
    BonnieSituation
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    corny wrote: »
    Well i don't know what constitutes attractive for you but I found his carrying and long range shooting a sight to behold at times. Each to their own...

    Was it in the 2008 final that he scored that wonder point from over on the Cusack side into the Hill?


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    #90
    corny
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    BonnieSituation wrote: »
    Was it in the 2008 final that he scored that wonder point from over on the Cusack side into the Hill?

    He scored a better one in that game where he made a fool out of Killian Young.


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    OldMrBrennan83
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