your all star schools team..

[azoffaly]

Also Mel Keenaghan should be on that Sarans team I'd say.

[Bord na Mona man]

Great idea for a topic - was in Saran's in Ferbane from 1990 through to 1996 but would have been at a few of their championship games in 1988/89 as well so this team would be largely drawn from lads back in that era, since that was pretty much the best group the school had for a long time.

I think you're cheating putting in players who weren't in school while you were a pupil there!

[Lone Shark]

Great idea for a topic - was in Saran's in Ferbane from 1990 through to 1996 but would have been at a few of their championship games in 1988/89 as well so this team would be largely drawn from lads back in that era, since that was pretty much the best group the school had for a long time.

I think you're cheating putting in players who weren't in school while you were a pupil there!

I'm actually not - my point is that my memory is hazy around who was in school in those years and who was still there in 1990 when I started - so I've included lads from that vintage on the basis that I started a year or two earlier.

Now I'm disgusted !!! Karol Kelly? Fergal McEvoy?

In fairness though, that's not a bad list. Although there were lads like Nicky Claffey and Colm Brazil as well that I'd have thought would be close to that team as footballers.

Well the way I read it, the premise was based on their form in school - and those two lads played a few fairly phenomenal schools games. Karol Kelly in particular was probably at his lifetime best at 16.

Would Nicky, Mel and Colm not have all been before that time again? Would have thought so myself.

By the way AZ, still haven't seen your selection....

[leinsterman]

Still don't see a team as good as the st. brendan's of birr 80's side

[azoffaly]

Great idea for a topic - was in Saran's in Ferbane from 1990 through to 1996 but would have been at a few of their championship games in 1988/89 as well so this team would be largely drawn from lads back in that era, since that was pretty much the best group the school had for a long time.

I think you're cheating putting in players who weren't in school while you were a pupil there!

I'm actually not - my point is that my memory is hazy around who was in school in those years and who was still there in 1990 when I started - so I've included lads from that vintage on the basis that I started a year or two earlier.

Now I'm disgusted !!! Karol Kelly? Fergal McEvoy?

In fairness though, that's not a bad list. Although there were lads like Nicky Claffey and Colm Brazil as well that I'd have thought would be close to that team as footballers.

Well the way I read it, the premise was based on their form in school - and those two lads played a few fairly phenomenal schools games. Karol Kelly in particular was probably at his lifetime best at 16.

Would Nicky, Mel and Colm not have all been before that time again? Would have thought so myself.

By the way AZ, still haven't seen your selection....

Nicky, Mel and Braz would have been with myself and Jimmy Grennan. Roddy McNamee and Barry Daly were just before us (we were young lads on their teams). James Hiney was another good footballer from that team, which was a great team. Rocky Maher and Clocker were also there at that time.

[MF35]

[quote="Lone Shark"]
1 (Can't remember here whether Declan Nugent or Kevin Rohan was around in the earlier days - either of these probably but not sure)
2 Kevin Flynn (Ferbane)
3 Cathal Maher (Ferbane)
4 Willie Ryan (Doon)
5 Roddy McNamee (Ferbane)
6 John Ryan (Shannonbridge)
7 Barry Daly (Ballycumber)
8 James Grennan (Ferbane)
9 Sean Grennan (Ferbane)
10 Anthony Kelly (Shannonbridge)
11 Vinny Mooney (Shannonbridge)
12 Damien Hunt (Doon)
13 Karol Kelly (Shannonbridge)
14 Fergal McEvoy (Shannonbridge)
15 Colm McTague (Ferbane)[/quote]

Willie Ryan (Doon) went to Athlone CC where he won a Leinster Vocationals Senior and Junior medals.

[rossier]

1 (Can't remember here whether Declan Nugent or Kevin Rohan was around in the earlier days - either of these probably but not sure)
2 Kevin Flynn (Ferbane)
3 Cathal Maher (Ferbane)
4 Willie Ryan (Doon)
5 Roddy McNamee (Ferbane)
6 John Ryan (Shannonbridge)
7 Barry Daly (Ballycumber)
8 James Grennan (Ferbane)
9 Sean Grennan (Ferbane)
10 Anthony Kelly (Shannonbridge)
11 Vinny Mooney (Shannonbridge)
12 Damien Hunt (Doon)
13 Karol Kelly (Shannonbridge)
14 Fergal McEvoy (Shannonbridge)
15 Colm McTague (Ferbane)

Willie Ryan (Doon) went to Athlone CC where he won a Leinster Vocationals Senior and Junior medals.

I don't think John Ryan or Anthony Kelly went to Sarans either, I'm pretty sure they went to the Vocational School in Ferbane.

[Lone Shark]

Well that's embarrassing, the memory is clearly not what it could be - though I do have an image of Anthony Kelly in a blue jumper rather than a grey one!

Senility setting in young here it seems.....

[rossier]

St. Brendan's Birr 80's
1.Barry Gleeson
2.Brian Hennessy
3. Damien Geoghegan
4.Gary Cahill
5. Brian Whelehan
6. Mick Hogan
7.Joe Errity
8.Johnny pilkington
9. Adrian Cahill
10.Johnny Dooley
11.Daithi Regan
12.Declan Pilkington
13.Billy Dooley
14.David Harding
15.Noel Hogan
there's maybe a few i left out can't think of them now it was 23 year's ago
not a bad side is it.

Class team leinsterman. Would Aidan Rosney have been before your time or is he someone you couldn't think of?

[azoffaly]

Well that's embarrassing, the memory is clearly not what it could be - though I do have an image of Anthony Kelly in a blue jumper rather than a grey one!

Senility setting in young here it seems.....

I assumed he had transferred after we left or something, but I do think he's right. Kelly would have been in the Tech first anyway, we played against him. You may have seen him in the combined schools team at some stage.

That was some amalgamation back then. The likes of Joe Duffy and Colm Kenny, David Cullinane, etc etc were all in the same year as ourselves in Saran's with Jimmy Grennan, Braz, Mel, etc etc. We played in the Leinster Colleges U-15 or something as a combined team, and beat Saint Mels in the final by about 25 points. We had beaten the Marist, finians from Mullingar and some other crowd along the way, maybe Saint Joseph's Rochfortbridge, although that could have been in a different competition.