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  • 24-07-2023 8:05am
    #1
    thestar
    Registered Users Posts: 503 ✭✭✭


    Cillian O Connor/Conor McManus

    Met a friend at the weekend, got chatting about football and it got into Monaghan's game against Dublin and Conor McManus's performance.

    I made the point that McManus is a great forward but would not put him in the top bracket of forwards in the last 10 years.


    I said I would put McManus in a bracket with the likes of Cillian O Connor to which he thought was an outrageous comment. Thoughts?



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    Rosita
    Registered Users Posts: 3,927 ✭✭✭Rosita


    I'd consider McManus on a completely different level to Cillian O'Connor. Would definitely be in your friend's camp in this one. McManus was a great footballer in my view.



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    BrianBoru00
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    I think O'Connor is one of the most unlikeable footballers out there.

    He s in the same bracket as McManus definitely.


    But for anyone to suggest that's not the top bracket is crazy.

    Individually they would both be certain starters on any all Ireland winners during their playing careers and probably the marquee forward on those teams bar Clifford.



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    thestar
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    McManus is a better footballer that O Connor, I accept that.

    However, the fact that McManus is from a so called weaker county, I think people can get romantic and a little carried away with praise.

    For different reasons, I think O Connor over the space of his career deserves as much respect as the like of Mansy. If for instance Mayo had won an AI or two, he would be spoken about it in much more esteem.



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    thestar
    Registered Users Posts: 503 ✭✭✭thestar


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120889275#Comment_120889275

    When I say top bracket I'm talking about the likes of Clifford, Murphy, Gooch. I think they were on a different level



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    elefant
    Registered Users Posts: 4,657 ✭✭✭elefant


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120889429#Comment_120889429

    I would agree with you that those two would be in the same bracket as each other, and if your definition of top bracket is all time greats like David Clifford, Peter Canavan etc., I think it's fair to argue they're just outside of that.



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    WesternZulu
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    I think Cillian O'Connor must be the most underrated player there ever was.

    Top scorer ever in the championship despite being injured for the best part of the last 3 years. I'm not saying the he is at the level of Clifford or Cooper but he was a fine footballer and I don't see how on any metric McManus comes out better than him.



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    evolvingtipperary101
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    A forward's job is to score. O'Connor and McManus score heavily. HEAVILY. Both great players.



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