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Best goal you ever saw?

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    #62
    ShamoBuc
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    PhilOssophy wrote: »
    I reckon John Fenton goal is overrated.
    No way Anthony Nash, Eoin Murphy, Mark Fanning, etc would let that in today.
    I know it was Tommy Quaid in the goal but still.

    Widely regarded as one of the best goals ever scored.

    Ask ANY GAA person have they seen it and they will have.

    But you think its overrated.

    Your comment that the other goalkeepers would have saved it is ridiculous in the extreme considering -as you mention it- Quaid was in goal, a legend of a goalkeeper.


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    #63
    Girly Gal
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    ShamoBuc wrote: »
    Widely regarded as one of the best goals ever scored.

    Ask ANY GAA person have they seen it and they will have.

    But you think its overrated.

    Your comment that the other goalkeepers would have saved it is ridiculous in the extreme considering -as you mention it- Quaid was in goal, a legend of a goalkeeper.
    Agree this is one of the great hurling goals, Fenton is so far out and pulls on the ball perfectly, haven't seen a goal like that since and with the way the game is played now we're unlikely to see one like it again.
    Joe Cannings goal against Kilkenny and Richie Hogan's against Tipp also had a bit of magic to them.


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    #64
    PhilOssophy
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    ShamoBuc wrote: »
    Widely regarded as one of the best goals ever scored.

    Ask ANY GAA person have they seen it and they will have.

    But you think its overrated.

    Your comment that the other goalkeepers would have saved it is ridiculous in the extreme considering -as you mention it- Quaid was in goal, a legend of a goalkeeper.

    Dude, its just my opinion. Is that not the idea of a debate? :)

    Just because something is "widely regarded" does not make it a fact that it is the greatest goal ever. And yes, I would be surprised if any of those keepers let it past them.

    I didn't say it wasn't a great goal. It was. But it was just like hurling at the time. Pull first and see where it goes.

    A few that spring to mind for me are :
    1. Joe Canning, goals v KK, one in All-Ireland and other in Leinster Final. Don't know the years.
    2. DJ Carey v Offaly, overhead pull. Don't know year either
    3. David Forde v Tipp in 97 (?) Munster final.
    4. Rory McCarthy v Limerick, early noughties.
    5. Joe Deane v Wexford, 2003?
    6. Paul Codd in the same game I think?
    7. Eoin Kelly Tipp v Cork, I don't know the year but if it had went wide, the umpire was stone dead!
    8. Gary Kirby 1996 Munster Final (?) v Tipp (?)

    Again, just my opinion!


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    #65
    Rows Grower
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    PhilOssophy wrote: »
    Dude, its just my opinion. Is that not the idea of a debate? :)

    Just because something is "widely regarded" does not make it a fact that it is the greatest goal ever. And yes, I would be surprised if any of those keepers let it past them.

    I didn't say it wasn't a great goal. It was. But it was just like hurling at the time. Pull first and see where it goes.

    A few that spring to mind for me are :
    1. Joe Canning, goals v KK, one in All-Ireland and other in Leinster Final. Don't know the years.
    2. DJ Carey v Offaly, overhead pull. Don't know year either
    3. David Forde v Tipp in 97 (?) Munster final.
    4. Rory McCarthy v Limerick, early noughties.
    5. Joe Deane v Wexford, 2003?
    6. Paul Codd in the same game I think?
    7. Eoin Kelly Tipp v Cork, I don't know the year but if it had went wide, the umpire was stone dead!
    8. Gary Kirby 1996 Munster Final (?) v Tipp (?)

    Again, just my opinion!

    I'm getting a serious aroma of bluffing off this post.

    You can clearly remember the names of the 8 players , who they were playing against and the details of the goals they scored but you can't remember the year of any of them?

    "Very soon we are going to Mars. You wouldn't have been going to Mars if my opponent won, that I can tell you. You wouldn't even be thinking about it."

    Donald Trump, March 13th 2018.



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    #66
    tibruit
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    John Fentons goal is the best I`ve seen. Don`t know if he had goal in his head but it was an unbelievable strike. DJ Carey was the most prolific forward, particularly with his club. You`d rarely go to a game where he wouldn`t do something spectacular.


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    #67
    mountgomery burns
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    Rory McCarthys goal to draw the game v Cork in 2003 was another great goal. Watched it so many times, and still find it hard to see the ball as it passes Cusack.

    Mullanes in the same year, his hat trick goal v Cork. Another bit of genius from Flynn for the short pass and he hit the top corner stantion. Unreal finish.


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    #68
    PhilOssophy
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    Rows Grower wrote: »
    I'm getting a serious aroma of bluffing off this post.

    You can clearly remember the names of the 8 players , who they were playing against and the details of the goals they scored but you can't remember the year of any of them?

    Well if I put in my guesses of the years, I'd be laughed out of here! If I have time next weekend, I'll have a proper look for the years (if you know them off hand, feel free to throw them in, especially as many of the teams played each other year in year out!!)


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    #69
    Rows Grower
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    PhilOssophy wrote: »
    Well if I put in my guesses of the years, I'd be laughed out of here! If I have time next weekend, I'll have a proper look for the years (if you know them off hand, feel free to throw them in, especially as many of the teams played each other year in year out!!)

    Just pick your best one and throw it up so we can have a look.

    "Very soon we are going to Mars. You wouldn't have been going to Mars if my opponent won, that I can tell you. You wouldn't even be thinking about it."

    Donald Trump, March 13th 2018.



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    #70
    gormdubhgorm
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    mountgomery burns wrote: »
    There's been so many exceptional goals its hard to choose but I'd probably give the nod to Joe Cannings goal in the Leinster final in 2015. Just an incredible piece of brilliance from him.

    Honourable mention to Paul Flynn in the Munster final of 2004, there's very few could do that and intend it.

    In football, one that sticks in my mind is a bullet of shot from Ciaran McManus from Offaly back in a league game Parnell park against Dublin, March 4th 2006 (I looked up the date it was annoying me for ages what year it was!). It was a pure technique goal.

    It was one in game mentioned here.

    https://www.independent.ie/sport/gaelic-games/gaelic-football/mcmanus-says-currans-condescending-comments-will-inspire-offaly-26374461.html

    Offaly were getting really walloped at the time, and got three late goals to put a gloss on the scoreline.
    But it is the McManus goal I remember, no keeper had any chance of stopping it. McManus caught it real sweetly after a bit of a solo run forward. Went in like a rocket top corner.

    Guff about stuff, and stuff about guff.



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    #71
    PhilOssophy
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    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a-t9RDhLZ-g


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    #72
    Rows Grower
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    PhilOssophy wrote: »
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a-t9RDhLZ-g

    That wasn’t too hard now was it?

    "Very soon we are going to Mars. You wouldn't have been going to Mars if my opponent won, that I can tell you. You wouldn't even be thinking about it."

    Donald Trump, March 13th 2018.



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    #73
    PhilOssophy
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    Rows Grower wrote: »
    That wasn’t too hard now was it?

    Calm down FFS


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    #74
    Cake Man
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    Rows Grower wrote: »
    Just pick your best one and throw it up so we can have a look.
    PhilOssophy wrote: »
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a-t9RDhLZ-g

    Funny if PhilOssophy trolled us all and that link above was to John Fenton's goal :pac::pac::pac:


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    #75
    patsyrockem
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    PhilOssophy wrote: »
    I reckon John Fenton goal is overrated.
    No way Anthony Nash, Eoin Murphy, Mark Fanning, etc would let that in today.
    I know it was Tommy Quaid in the goal but still.

    Nash saves that??????????? i have a pain in my tummy from laughing or maybe its APRIL 1ST?


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    #76
    Rows Grower
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    patsyrockem wrote: »
    Nash saves that??????????? i have a pain in my tummy from laughing or maybe its APRIL 1ST?

    Could be philosophers stone('d.)

    "Very soon we are going to Mars. You wouldn't have been going to Mars if my opponent won, that I can tell you. You wouldn't even be thinking about it."

    Donald Trump, March 13th 2018.



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    #77
    PhilOssophy
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    Sorry, I thought this was a discussion board, not a conform and bow down to the opinion of the greatest goal.
    If you gave TJ Reid, Joe Canning, Seamus Callinan (who if you are talking about goals, his one against Wexford was also right up there) a free shot from 45 yards and had any of the goalkeepers I mentioned in the goal, I bet they would not score too many of them. That is my opinion.
    But anyway, I will unfollow, unpopular opinions not welcome around here :)


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    #78
    mountgomery burns
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    PhilOssophy wrote: »
    Sorry, I thought this was a discussion board, not a conform and bow down to the opinion of the greatest goal.
    If you gave TJ Reid, Joe Canning, Seamus Callinan (who if you are talking about goals, his one against Wexford was also right up there) a free shot from 45 yards and had any of the goalkeepers I mentioned in the goal, I bet they would not score too many of them. That is my opinion.
    But anyway, I will unfollow, unpopular opinions not welcome around here :)

    One again I'd agree with the point that it's a 1/100 chance a players scores a goal from 45 yards. But it was a 1/100 shot.

    The ball moves from Hurley to crossing the line in less than 2 seconds. The camera isn't even fast enough to capture it. The keeper would have to be positioned on this far post to have any chance, and to be honest I can't imagine any keeper would be.

    If you knew a player was going to take on a shot from there then also you could have a chance but he couldn't have anticipated the audacity of it or the connection that was made. The speed, trajectory and ultimately the ball finishing right in the corner of the net for me make it and impossible save for any goalkeeper.

    That's my opinion anyway.


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    Rows Grower
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    mountgomery burns wrote: »
    One again I'd agree with the point that it's a 1/100 chance a players scores a goal from 45 yards. But it was a 1/100 shot.

    The ball moves from Hurley to crossing the line in less than 2 seconds. The camera isn't even fast enough to capture it. The keeper would have to be positioned on this far post to have any chance, and to be honest I can't imagine any keeper would be.

    If you knew a player was going to take on a shot from there then also you could have a chance but he couldn't have anticipated the audacity of it or the connection that was made. The speed, trajectory and ultimately the ball finishing right in the corner of the net for me make it and impossible save for any goalkeeper.

    That's my opinion anyway.

    Powerful eloquence mountgomery.

    "Very soon we are going to Mars. You wouldn't have been going to Mars if my opponent won, that I can tell you. You wouldn't even be thinking about it."

    Donald Trump, March 13th 2018.



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    #80
    seligehgit
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    PhilOssophy wrote: »
    Sorry, I thought this was a discussion board, not a conform and bow down to the opinion of the greatest goal.
    If you gave TJ Reid, Joe Canning, Seamus Callinan (who if you are talking about goals, his one against Wexford was also right up there) a free shot from 45 yards and had any of the goalkeepers I mentioned in the goal, I bet they would not score too many of them. That is my opinion.
    But anyway, I will unfollow, unpopular opinions not welcome around here :)


    You are fully entitled to hold your opinions and are more than welcome here.However others may disagree.:)


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    #81
    zetecescort
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    not he furthest out or one that ripped the net but Brian Corcoran's drop shot against Waterford in 04 or 05 was a lovely piece of skill


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    #82
    Chalk McHugh
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    Another favourite goal that i witnessed first hand was Aidan Ryan of Tipp v Cork in the 1991 Munste final replay. One of the best games i ever saw also. Top 3 anyway.

    I was in the Killinan End with all the Tipp crowd. Tipp came from 9 or 10 points down in the second half to go a point ahead when near the end Aidan Ryan blocked a Cork defender from around 40 yards out and ran on after the ball where he blocked another Cork defender trying to clear a ground shot around 30 yards out before chasing the ball, rising it and burying it past a hapless Ger Cunningham.

    Cue bedlam; Tipp fans who were already piled on the endline and around the goals due to overcrowding raced onto the pitch with one lad even doing 360's in a wheelchair. One of the best goal celebrations of all time. There was no coming back for Cork. Tipp pulled off a magic victory and went on to win the All Ireland.


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    #83
    The_Kew_Tour
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    Girly Gal wrote: »
    This is a great team goal which came in the first few minutes of the 2000 all Ireland replay. The clip doesn't do it justice as it doesn't show how Kevin Walsh caught the ball under his own crossbar from a Kerry free kick and Galway worked it up the field for Meehan to score, definitely the best team goal scored in croke park. Had Galway won it would probably be remembered more.

    https://twitter.com/brendans_gaa/status/1245694349628846081?s=19


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    #84
    bauney
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    Serious goal. Tidy work from Divilly and Joyce facing their own goal, quick hands and feet between them got out of trouble. Joyce kept moving and got receive and played the clever forwards pass into Clancy, who knew that gaps left behind him would suit the run by Meehan. But Clancy's pass had to be perfect which it was.Back to goal and over the shoulder pass. Good hands and technique and sublime finish by Meehan. What a goal and in an all Ireland. Everything you could ask for. Totally underrated goal.


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    #85
    Hammer Archer
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    Minor games can produce some absolutely outstanding goals:

    Colman Kennedy for Tipp to win the 2011 minor final against Dublin

    Zach Tuohy against Derry in 2007


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    #86
    DellyBelly
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    Jimmy Barry Murphy goal in the 1973 final is a fantastic goal and the commentary makes it even better


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    #87
    mountgomery burns
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    Hammer Archer wrote: »
    Minor games can produce some absolutely outstanding goals:

    Colman Kennedy for Tipp to win the 2011 minor final against Dublin

    Zach Tuohy against Derry in 2007

    A good strike by Kennedy but shocking keeping. Tuohys an excellent goal


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    #88
    dirtyden
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    Lar Corbetts second goal in the 2010 final, both for the pass from Noel McGrath and the finish.


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    #89
    C__MC
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    Richie powers goal in the 2014 draw (first one) was simple but beautiful


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