Best League of Ireland player ever.

anladmór

Who do you think it is and why? I've heard Paul Osam was immense and should have been called up for the Ireland national team, but I can't say I seen him much.

Joe Gamble? Brian Murphy? Kevin Hunt?

SRFC90

Tagdh Purcell.

redout

Obviously must be Sir Bobby Charlton. He played for Waterford for a season.

dreamers75

Shay Gibbons

SectionF

Roy Keane

thusspakeblixa

Didn't George Best play for Cork Celtic?
Can't say if he was up to much myself...





...Mark Rutherford is better anyhow.
:pac:

Neil3030

thusspakeblixa wrote: »

Didn't George Best play for Cork Celtic?
Can't say if he was up to much myself...





...Mark Rutherford is better anyhow.
:pac:

Sparky gets my vote too!

stovelid

You mean in recent times or historically? Roy Keane, George Best, or Johnny Giles.

As you can see here, players like Geoff Hurst couldn't have hacked it over here tbh. :pac:

glenjamin

Carlton Palmer :P

stovelid

LOL, I just wikipedia'd Geoff Hurst and it says he played for Cork Celtic as well!!

invincibleirish

delta_bravo

Jimmy Aggrey - Bohs Legend

dreamers75

invincibleirish wrote: »

toughie for me between gibbons mc grath and osam. Gibbons wins for his goal scoring record and he played for ireland whilst with pats.


how blessed am i

dyl10

Assuming you're talking about best players while actually playing in the league, Glen Crowe would have to be a contender.

Thanx 4 The Fish

Colm Tresson

SectionF

delta_bravo wrote: »

Jimmy Aggrey - Bohs Legend

Jimmy's gonna get ya!

Daysha

No contest imo. Bobby Charlton is the winner.

eagle eye

George Best.

Players that spent their full or majority of their career in the league.

Hilary Carlyle
Turlough O'Connor
Brendan Bradley
Paul Doolin

If I had to choose it would be Carlyle.

dyl10

eagle eye wrote: »

Players that spent their full or majority of their career in the league.

Hilary Carlyle
Turlough O'Connor
Brendan Bradley
Paul Doolin

Good choices, apparently Doolin is the most decorated LOI player in league history

Zebra3

Gary Howlett.

Xavi6

Tony Sheridan

applehunter

Liam Coyle was the best I've seen in my time supporting the league.

Overall best, maybe Raich Carter.

George Best was just a fat mess by the time he played for Celtic.

dyl10

In my time watching, Houlihan was the one I used to enjoy watching the most but clearly not one of the greats

dreamers75

dyl10 wrote: »

Good choices, apparently Doolin is the most decorated LOI player in league history

Heary would have overtaken him as a player, it was osam with 6 titles. Heary has to have more now and a few of that cup thing that happens once a year.

event

Dessie 'The Dundalk Hawk' Gorman

anladmór

i'm laughing at people saying bobby charlton and others. they played like 1 season in ireland so hardly enough to warrant best LOI player ever.

redout

anladmór wrote: »

i'm laughing at people saying bobby charlton and others. they played like 1 season in ireland so hardly enough to warrant best LOI player ever.

Surely the thread can be interpreted as the best player to ever play in the LOI, no ? I dont see your point. Sir Bobby was the best player to ever grace the league in my opinion by a country mile. As another poster said already Best was a mess when he played. Sir Bobby joined Waterford at 37 years of age made 31 appearances and scored 18 goals. Hardly an over the hill return. There are obviously other good players who played many seasons in the league but never reached the heights achieved by Charlton. The fact the guy was a World cup winner, European cup winner and a Ballon d'Or winner has him head and shoulders above anyone else who graced the league.

dreamers75

redout wrote: »

Surely the thread can be interpreted as the best player to ever play in the LOI, no ? I dont see your point. Sir Bobby was the best player to ever grace the league in my opinion by a country mile. As another poster said already Best was a mess when he played. Sir Bobby joined Waterford at 37 years of age made 31 appearances and scored 18 goals. Hardly an over the hill return. There are obviously other good players who played many seasons in the league but never reached the heights achieved by Charlton. The fact the guy was a World cup winner, European cup winner and a Ballon d'Or winner has him head and shoulders above anyone else who graced the league.

Shay Gibbons ........Shakes fist!!!!!!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shay_Gibbons

horseydevine

kevin doyle
Keith Fahey
Paul McGrath

premierstone

Liam Coyle FTW

RustySpoon

+1 for Liam Coyle, the goal against Athlone on the last day of the season in 95 was special even though Dundalk went on to take the title.

eagle eye

RustySpoon wrote: »

+1 for Liam Coyle, the goal against Athlone on the last day of the season in 95 was special even though Dundalk went on to take the title.

Obviously you never seen any of Hilary Carlyle's special goals.

Pigman II

Jackie Jameson

K-9

Brendan Bradley