Downs best footballer??

SUPERREDS (Down) - Posts: 15 - 14/12/2008 15:27:20    163933

PAUL HIGGINS

ballymartin09 (Down) - Posts: 36 - 14/12/2008 16:34:06    163947

ballymartin fella, just a wee bit of a biased opinion there.
has to be sean o neill because he's on the team of the millenium.

glenn_abu (Down) - Posts: 515 - 14/12/2008 19:39:37    164047

Paddy Doherty

Micky Linden

James McCartan snr & jnr

down gaa (Down) - Posts: 119 - 14/12/2008 21:59:41    164097

MICKEY LINDEN

dwnman (Down) - Posts: 44 - 15/12/2008 02:05:14    164136

Colm McAlarney

Seannie Og (Down) - Posts: 952 - 15/12/2008 08:13:09    164144

has to be martin clarke!

SUPERREDS (Down) - Posts: 15 - 15/12/2008 09:43:01    164171

Brian Mc Cartan, Very technical

updapoint (Down) - Posts: 18 - 15/12/2008 10:57:08    164179

i agree with updapoint ,big brian mc cartan has been one of da greatest ever players to grace our land however, i personnolly belive that the best down player eva has 2 be big marty because of his space awareness

star21 (Down) - Posts: 87 - 15/12/2008 12:46:01    164269

Would have to be Sean ONeill. Not old enough to have seen him in the flesh but from archive fottage and what his generation say then it has to be him. From the more recent generation Greg Blaney and Mickey Linden would grace any team in any era.

Damo77 (Down) - Posts: 4 - 15/12/2008 14:05:42    164346

Greg Blaney, though older people will say Sean O`Neill

The Gael (Down) - Posts: 115 - 15/12/2008 14:48:57    164402

There is too many to pick a single one out.

Looking back you have the likes of Sean O Neill
Paddy Doherty
Kevin Mussen

and in more recent times you have had greats like Greg Blaney
Mickey Linden
James McCartan and the likes

I have only named a few here however there are also many others who would be up there

dabiglad (Down) - Posts: 155 - 13/01/2009 21:00:01    179666

bundy mason from loughinisland

hitch06 (Down) - Posts: 24 - 14/01/2009 18:04:40    180472

If Martin Clarke had of stayed in Gaa, it would be him with-out a shadow of a doubt...

AnRiocht08 (Down) - Posts: 27 - 15/01/2009 23:22:35    181923

stumpy thats u!!!!!!lol

ballymartin09 (Down) - Posts: 36 - 16/01/2009 10:33:12    182108

i am glad 2 see that some people have mentioned the ikes of James McCartan snr as wel as junior and also Arkle (Colm McAlarney) but there is one more person i would specially like 2 mention and it is Joe Lennon the All-Ireland winning captin of '68 - other people who I feel deserve a mention are:Kevin O Neill
Jarlath Carey
Neill Collins
Tom O Hare

dabiglad (Down) - Posts: 155 - 16/01/2009 10:47:30    182118

Shhhh ballymartin09 lol

AnRiocht08 (Down) - Posts: 27 - 19/01/2009 16:37:41    183985

Paddy Doherty by a country mile

down gaa (Down) - Posts: 119 - 19/01/2009 18:53:17    184160

Greg Blaney was my favourite Down player - and he could hurl - The best I have seen would have to be Linden, totally unstoppable in '94

Suas Sios (None) - Posts: 1558 - 21/01/2009 16:10:52    186076

Have to agree, Linden was brilliant in '94. Best I have ever witnessed from any Down player. Never seen him play, but from what I am told Sean O'Neill was some player. Always liked Greg Blaney, wonderful passer of the ball and well able to tough it out when required. His perfomance in '91 in the Marshes against Armagh was the launch pad for our All-Ireland win that year.

pgm (Down) - Posts: 32 - 21/01/2009 16:40:40    186139