Armagh Team of the last 20 years 2000-2019

Ard Mhacha 13

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Emmmm, ehhhhhh are you incinerating that maybe, just possibly that there's more than a chance, allegedly of course that just remotely, his parents may not have been................... hmmmmm, married at the time of conception, inferring that out of wedlock shenanigans of the hand holding type may have been partaken in??? :confused:

& also a word that begins with an s & has a g at the end with 5 letters in between which are m,a,c,u & b, but not necessarily in that order :D
 
Folks, no way does Aaron Kernan deserve to be on that team. By his own admission he never truly had the inter county career he would have wished for!

Andy Mallon on the other hand is most understated footballer we have ever had from his breakthrough in 2003 until his retirement. Think about all the players that lad had to mark, I would have him before Sean Marty. Also how Neill McGee isn’t on that team I’d never know. I fail to think of a better full-back, maybe Tony Scullion in his day but certainly not in the last twenty years!!
 

Peter grimes

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McGrane for me should have been a cert. Murphy seems to have been shoehorned in. Given his Armagh selection that’s not really a surprise
If any Armagh player has been hard done by I’d say it is Andy Mallon. In for Owens and I couldn’t argue with that team.

15 players from a 20 year period will necessarily exclude some great players.

McManus, Muldoon, McGlynn, McGee, McGrath as well as our own Kernan, Marsden and McGrane all had extended peaks in their careers but can’t pick them all
 

Rufus T Firefly

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All about opinions of course. Our great team had five players who were undoubtedly in the 'great' category. Geezer, Paul McGrane, Oisin, Ronan Clarke and Stevie. Paul and Ronan Clarke missed out. For me, Paul McGrane needs to be there and that is copper fastened by the fact that there are two players at midfield who were equally at home elsewhere - indeed Murphy was more renowned as a forward.

I would have Paul McGrane in the middle with Cavanagh and move Murphy to 11. McGuigan would miss out for me.

I could make an argument for Ronan Clarke - I've said it before that if he had been born a Kerry man and been injury free, he would be talked in the same breath as the Gooch, Spillane and Mikey Sheehy - he was that good. With my Armagh head, I would put him at 14, move Wee Peter to 15 and Stevie to 13 and SON would miss out. That said, SON is also deserving of his place. He was an all time great.

Not sure about the challenge to Lockhart and Owens. Both would be on my team any day - two great players - and I can only assume that time / lack of success of Derry and Fermanagh is a factor in those questioning their inclusion. That said, Andy Mallon would be a good shout and not undeserving of inclusion.
 

Rufus T Firefly

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Incidentally, there's an element of the victors writing history here. Tyrone have seven in the team to our three and yet there was so little between those team. It would not have taken very much in terms of the roll of a ball for that tally to finish at 2 All Irelands each, it was that close. The fact that they finished three-to-one now seems to influence selections such as this, which is galling from our point of view.
 

pablo

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He played in the Ulster championship pre-lim game against Derry in Derry 2010, scored a point and then I think got injured prior to the Monaghan game and that was it for him unfortunately. Pity, as I thought he has phenomenal talent
I remember him scoring 4-4 in a National League game away to Wexford
 

Eireogatron

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I think, and I may be slightly mistaken, that he was with DC in the Irish league and couldn't commit to Armagh as he was getting good dough, then he signed for linfield and they put the kybosh on his Gaelic career, certainly at county level once and for all
 
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