2017 Football All Stars

Paddy McBrearty and fourteen others.

blanch152 wrote: »

I suspect most would like to see this team


Clarke (Mayo)
Higgins (Mayo)
Keegan (Mayo)
Barrett (Mayo)
Boyle (Mayo)
McCann (Tyrone)
Murphy (Kerry)
Cavanagh (Tyrone)
Feely (Kildare)
O'Shea (Mayo)
Moran (Mayo)
Harte (Tyrone)
Geaney (Kerry)
Clarke (Armagh)
McBrearty (Donegal)

7 Mayo, 2 Kerry, 3 Tyrone, 1 each for Armagh, Kildare and Donegal.

Seems like a fair reflection of the year all right. Would have had that Carlow fella who showed the Dubs how to play football in there myself, but you can't have everything.

Due to his proximity to Dublin location wise, I want Kildares Kevin Feely removed.

Will there be many differences from the Sunday Game TOTY? C Cavanagh in for Parsons maybe (even though if he is anywhere it should most likely be the half back line), Jason Doherty might get in ahead of McLoughlin, and I could see them try to get Rock in there. Maybe instead of O'Callaghan, seeing as he's a shoe in for YPOTY?

Always_Running wrote: »

According to the odds the All stars will be

S Cluxton
K Higgins
C Barrett
M Fitzsimons
C Boyle
C O'Sullivan
J McCaffrey
J McCarthy
T Parsons
K McLoughlin
A O Shea
C Kilkenny
C O'Callaghan
P Geaney
A Moran

7 Mayo
7 Dublin
1 Kerry


I think Tyrone will win one so maybe C Cavanagh in for Parsons

Mannion has to be in there for me. Geaney is a very good player but subject to a fair bit of hype... I think he scored 0-5 from play over the 2 games vs Mayo.

I know he won't get one, but Fintan Kelly surely set a record for most goals scored from a defender in one season? Deserves it alone for that. Kevin Feely too was the outstanding midfielder of the Leinster championship and would rank just behind James Mc and Parsons for me.

My selection:

Cluxton

Kelly (won't get it though so Fitzsimons)
O'Sullivan
Higgins

Boyle
Barrett
McCaffrey

McCarthy
Parsons

Kilkenny
O'Shea
O'Callaghan

Mannion
Moran
Geaney

7 Dubs (well 8 including Fitz)
6 Mayo
1 Kerry

1 Monaghan (if Kelly gets it)

Cluxton

Cooper
Barrett
Higgins

Boyle
COS
McCaffrey

McCarthy
Cavanagh

Murphy
O'Callaghan
AOS

Moran
Mannion
Rock

Only having one token player from Kerry/Tyrone so Murphy>Geaney for me.

Cluxton
Fitzsimons
COS
Higgins
Boyle
Barrett
McCaffrey
McCarthy
Cavanagh
McLoughlin
O'Callaghan
Doherty*
Rock
Geaney
Moran

*The only one I'm uncertain of, you could pick any of AOS, Kilkenny, Doherty or maybe others. I don't think anyone has stood out. AOS contribution has been overrated imo, particularly in the final. Kilkenny had a poor final and hasn't been standout throughout the season. Doherty is a workhorse who is very consistent and had a very good final so I went with him. There's probably another half forward I'm not thinking of who could slip in ahead of these 3 though.

Rest of the team was pretty easy for me. Rock I think deserves it, not a huge fan of his but he's had a good season and a great final. Geaney imo was the standout inside forward this season, aside from Andy Moran.

Fr Tod Umptious wrote: »

But what did McBrearty do in the 2017 Championship get a nomination over Carlow's Paul Broderick ?

Both players did not have an impact on the outcome of championship but it could be said that Carlow's year was above expectations where as Donegal's was below.

Now I did not see any of Donegal's or Carlow's games this year so I'll have to go on stats and from that Broderick scored 1-30 in total, McBrearty 1-26.

This is the problem with the All Stars, they go to the players from the last four and a few nominations go to well known players from other teams

A lot more people know who McBrearty is, feck all have heard about Broderick.

You could say the same for Brodrick. At the end of the day Carlow only beat other Div 4 teams, with Wexford being the only surprise. What odds would you have got for them to draw both Letrim and London?

Goalkeeper: Stephen Cluxton

Full Backs: Keith Higgins, Cian O Sullivan, Michael Fitzsimons

Half Backs: Jack McCaffrey, Chris Barrett, Colm Boyle

Midfield: Tom Parsons, James McCarthy

Half Forwards: Ciaran Kilkenny, Con O Callaghan, Aidan O Shea

Full Forwards: Paul Mannion, Paul Geaney, Andy Moran

Total:
7 Dublin
7 Mayo
1 Kerry

MayoAreMagic wrote: »

You wont be far away there. Although McLoughlin and Doherty had a year as good as most of the selected forwards they will probably lose out to the old all star quotas rule. Could see them putting McCarthy to half back in place of o'sullivan and giving Cavanagh the nod

Yeah I wasn't sure if that was possible or not given that Cavanagh and McCarthy were nominated for a midfield position, although there's plenty of precedent with players slotted in to the team out of position. If anything, Cavanagh would be moved to the backs in place of COS given he didn't really play midfield as such.

Stoner wrote: »

It was interesting to see how the Carlow manager was just looking for a nomination, not necessarily an award.

Made me realize that the awards are very important not just the winners but to a lesser extent the nomination is an award itself.

I was thinking that per position they could consider a mandatory nomination for this type of position, I don't know the parameters of it , but players are overlooked continuously and it would be good to force one nomination per position that required the organisers to review and recognise the contribution of players during the earlier stages of the competition.

That S Murphy lad had a great season

Of course - everyone is overlooked except the players that are selected -

For example - why are two kildare players picked when they didnt win a provincial championship or even get to the QFs.

Anyone can score a brilliant goal on a given day against weak opposition.

At an individual level - the one guy I would point to is Conor McManus - I watched Monaghan a few times this year; on every occasion he was double marked including by Dublin but he still came out of it third top scorer in the championship. Plus, Monaghan reached the quarterfinal and in reality ran Dublin closer than any team other than Mayo this year; albeit still not particularly close.

MayoAreMagic wrote: »

You wont be far away there. Although McLoughlin and Doherty had a year as good as most of the selected forwards they will probably lose out to the old all star quotas rule. Could see them putting McCarthy to half back in place of o'sullivan and giving Cavanagh the nod

Left out Jason Doherty . I think Kilkenny was found out in the final when Keenan did a number on him .