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For the past 40 years, The Sunday Game has brought the GAA football and pitching championships to their homes.
And now, we want you to help us choose the best XV in each code of the television era, choosing the best XV of the winners of the Game of Stars of the era of the Sunday Game (1979-present)
Please cast three votes for your All-Star selection with the full options below or email [email protected] to make further considered contributions. We will be debating these teams on our platforms in the coming weeks.
Before continuing with this post on the final line of our astonishingly controversial ‘Sunday Game Age Star Launch Team’, we must point out the reason why neither Joe Canning, DJ Carey, nor Henry Shefflin are among the nominees. here.
The reason is that all three have already been selected by you readers in the mid-advance line.
Shefflin is straightforward given that he won the vast majority of his numerous All-Stars (all with the exception of 2007 in fact) in the semi-finals.
Canning is a bit more of a puzzle given that he won the first three of his five All-Stars on the inside line and his best position is often considered to be the full striker. Carey won five of her eight All-Stars between 1991 and 2002 on the full line. However, the public has selected the two forwards and we cannot choose them twice.
The most prolific All-Star Game winner at the full forward line in the early 1980s was Limerick’s Joe McKenna, who collected six, primarily at the full forward position, between 1974 and 1981.
His legendary crime partner, the wonderfully elegant Eamonn Cregan, collected three All-Star gongs between 1971 and 1980, though oddly enough, neither Cregan nor McKenna earned any recognition in the 1973 Limerick All-Ireland winning year. Both they are for your consideration. here.
Jimmy Barry Murphy was, and for a certain generation continues to be, the beloved and leading idol of the faithful of Cork. He led the All-Star team for each year of Cork’s legendary three in a row from 1976-78.
As the ’70s gave way to the’ 80s, he moved further up the field and collected another pair of All-Stars in 1983, the year of his famous wondrous goal when he redirected John Fenton’s effervescent momentum in the top corner against Galway. – and in 1986, when he added a thrown fifth All-Star to a fifth All-Ireland medal in his swan year.
Ballyhale legend Liam Fennelly was the main light on the whole line for Kilkenny in what was by his standards a pretty thin decade. Fennelly collected four All-Star Awards throughout his career, three coming in the 1980s before a fourth and final in his triumphant farewell season in 1992.
Noel Lane is best remembered nationally as the super-scorer who scored goals in Galway’s glory days in the late 1980s, but it was in two of the Westerners’ last years that he won the All-Stars in 1983 and 1984. Surprisingly, between Galway’s four semifinals and the All-Ireland Finals that Galway played between ’85 and ’88, Lane scored goals in six of the eight games, despite being deployed as a sub in most of the games.
Tipperary’s front-in line was their best weapon as they finally emerged from the depression in the late 1980s. Nicky English, Pat Fox and Cormac Bonner won multiple All-Stars, the English won six overall and won the Hurong of the Year gong in 1989. With injuries dropping to the other two in 1991, Fox delivered the products and won the Hurler of the Year award when the Babs Keating team won a second title in three years.
Otherwise, the All-Stars as well as the All-Irelands spanned the 1990s. John Fitzgibbon, Ger O’Loughlin, Billy Dooley, and Michael Cleary won multiple All-Stars on the overall breakthrough line, although the latter was as well known as a forward half. The stylish Joe Dooley surprisingly only won an All-Star and is included here.
Going into the 1990s, the most prolific All-Star on the inside-out line was Tipperary legend Eoin Kelly, who won six gongs between, and including, his two All-Ireland winning years in 2001 and 2010. .
Cork recovered from his baffling mid-1990s calm to win three titles between 1999 and 2005 and his diminutive striker Joe Deane, who terrified the backlines, regularly throwing points with a characteristic shortened club, collected three awards when the Munster aristocrats returned to the table above.
In an era dominated by Kilkenny, the full-line All-Stars are surprisingly slim, though Martin Comerford, Eddie Brennan, and, from a previous vintage, Charlie Carter won multiple awards in the 1990s.
The decade that has just passed has seen Seamus Callanan, Pat Horgan and, in the early years, John Mullane win multiple All-Stars.
The Waterford corner forward went five overall, including four at the trot between 2009 and 2012, even if the Déise, so impressive at Munster at the time, ultimately fell behind Liam MacCarthy’s honors.
Lar Corbett was Tipp’s favorite at the turn of the decade, winning three All-Stars in a row from 2009-11, whipping home a hat-trick at the famous All-Ireland 2010 and then 4-04 at Munster the following year. final.
Callanan and Horgan have been the standard bearers in recent years, and one of them has held at least one of the positions each year since 2013.
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