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Name Your Best 15 Gaa Players Over The Past 40 Years

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Replying To The_DOC:  "Without Seán óg de Paor and/or Deccie Meehan there no way Galway would have won one if not both All Irelands.

Without Lee Keegan, I'm fairly sure Mayo would still have lost all those finals though."
No way Galway win without one of their half backs? Seriously. Class players but a daft post there. Like ridiculous. Any more random scenarios for us?

TheFlaker (Mayo) - Posts: 8556 - 20/10/2025 16:02:25    2640840

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Replying To tirawleybaron:  "Team is from 1985 onwards - Kerrys golden years team were washed up by 1986. That rules out all of them really

Stephen Cluxton
Mark O Se
Mick Lyons
Keith Higgins
Lee Keegan
Seamus Moynihan
James McCarthy
Brian Fenton
Anthony Tohill
Trevor Giles
Maurice Fitzgerald
Peter Canavan
Colm Cooper
Michael Murphy
David Clifford.

Subs:
Rory Beggan
Seán Marty Lockhart
Jack McCaffrey
Sean Cavanagh
Larry Tomkins
Conor McManus

Squad Members
Darran Fay
Kieran McGeeney
Kevin Walsh
Ja Fallon
Mickey Lindon"
To have no Galway player in the starting 15 or even the next 6 subs and to have two Mayo players is recency plus proximity bias :D

FullOfPorter (Roscommon) - Posts: 419 - 20/10/2025 16:31:07    2640845

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Replying To TheFlaker:  "No way Galway win without one of their half backs? Seriously. Class players but a daft post there. Like ridiculous. Any more random scenarios for us?"
You have repeated exactly my point! Re read my post.

The_DOC (Galway) - Posts: 824 - 20/10/2025 16:48:13    2640849

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Replying To tomsmith:  "Tomsmith here
An y Poster that would leave Murphy Donegal ,Mc Donald County Mayo and Tohill L, Derry of the best 15 players in the past 40 years knows very little about the skills of the Gaa.
All three of these lovely footballers were tops in Skill and delivery ( and I dident include Sheanie Johnston of Cavan and Kildare fame ) in my lie up as the greatest exponents of theGaa game"
You don't know much either, firstly there is no L in the County Derry and next you don't know much if you put Tohill in front of the great Sean Cavanagh.

Saynothing (Tyrone) - Posts: 2429 - 20/10/2025 16:48:24    2640850

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Replying To The_DOC:  "You have repeated exactly my point! Re read my post."
Eh i can only hope you are joking. Hope.

TheFlaker (Mayo) - Posts: 8556 - 20/10/2025 17:29:19    2640856

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Replying To FullOfPorter:  "To have no Galway player in the starting 15 or even the next 6 subs and to have two Mayo players is recency plus proximity bias :D"
I'm not completely sure about recency bias when it comes to picking out great GAA players, to be honest the way football went regarding defensive tactics and uncontested handpassing I'd say it would be harder for players who played in the more tactical era to get noticed.

GreenMan1987 (Meath) - Posts: 117 - 20/10/2025 20:55:18    2640880

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