Best Ever LOI XI

[Aaron]

Looked for a thread on this but couldn't find one. In YOUR time following the LOI, what has been your best XI and 5 subs.

Alan Gough

Owen Heary
Peter Hutton
Tony McCarthy
Simon Webb

Paddy McCourt
Kevin Hunt
Paul Doolin
Mark Rutherford

Liam Coyle
Jason Byrne

Subs:

David Forde
Pat Scully
Glen Crowe
Pat Fenlon
Mark Farren

[Mario]

4-3-1-2 :

Steve Williams

Eoin Heary
Pat Scully
Dan Murray
Willie Burke

Kevin Hunt
Eddie Gormley
Pat McCourt

Ndo

Stephen Gheoghean
Glen Crowe

Subs :
Alan ONeill
Gary Twigg
Jason Byrne
Peter Hutton
Ollie Cahill

[Mr A]

4-4-2

Kevin McHugh

Kevin McHugh
Kevin McHugh
Kevin McHugh
Kevin McHugh

Kevin McHugh
Kevin McHugh
Kevin McHugh
Kevin McHugh

Kevin McHugh
Kevin McHugh (Captain)

Subs:
Kevin McHugh
Kevin McHugh
Kevin McHugh
Kevin McHugh
Kevin McHugh

[geezer]

ski

was the best LOI player i have ever seen in action, 2. Liam Coyle, 3. Stephen Geoghegan

[SwanVsDalton]

ski

was the best LOI player i have ever seen in action, 2. Liam Coyle, 3. Stephen Geoghegan

He was versatile but is he in goals? Also Liam Coyle and Stephen Geoghegan as full backs, strange enough. Anyway go on....

[dong]

O'Neill
Coleman
Peers
Hutton
Powell
Brennan
Fahey
Ryan
NDo
McGee
Arkins

Subs:
Brujos
Twigg
Crowe
Hunt
Heary

[Dodge]

----------Henderson------------
Fleming McDonnell Hutton M Murray
---Osam Gormley Hunt----------
---GEoghegan Coyle Crowe----

[dfx-]

Alan O'Neill

Scully
Brazil
Dan Murray

Cahill
Osam
Hunt
McCourt
Rutherford

Geoghegan
Coyle

Sub:

Steve Williams
Crowe
Ndo
Heary
Hutton

[**FrOsTy**]

In my time!

Mick Devine

O. Heary, Hutton, Hawkins, Webb

McCourt, Hunt, Livingston, Ndo

J.Byrne, Coyle

Subs:
Daryl Murphy
Alan Kirby
Dave Rogers
Glen Crowe
Steve Williams

[Real ale Madrid]

Nicky Brujos

Owen Heary
Pat Scully
Peter Hutton
Billy Woods

Ollie Cahill
Kevin Hunt
Paul Osam
Tony Sheridan

Liam Coyle
Kevin Doyle

Subs:
Joe Gamble
Glen Crowe
Patsy Freyne
Pat Fenlon
Mark Rutherford

[hoops1]

Its not worth reading anybodies team that does not start with Brian Murphy in goals

[sligored]

Its not worth reading anybodies team that does not start with Brian Murphy in goals

its not worth reading anyones team who has nick broujos in goals

[Real ale Madrid]

its not worth reading anyones team who has nick broujos in goals

Always played well at the X. Frustrated me on many's an occasion. Always sticks out in my mind.

[PartySaint]

Im surprised at the amount of people who don't have Fahey in their team

[Dodge]

Im surprised at the amount of people who don't have Fahey in their team

He'd be doing well to get into my Pats team.

Pats midfielders
1) Gormley
2) Osam
3) Fahey

[pineapple stu]

Rusty?

[Dodge]

He'd be 4th.

Nutsy's 5th. i could this all day BTW.

[oriel]

Did any of you guys never hear of the likes of Barry Kehoe (Dundalk) Rocky O'Brien (Bohs) Jackie Jameson (Bohs) Noel Larkin (Athlone & Rovers) Liam O'Brien (Bohs & Rovers) or possibly even the all time ever leading LOI scorer Brendan Bradley (Finn Harps & Sligo) or this just a 90`s & 00`s question ?

[passinginterest]

I'm a relative late comer to the League so most of the players I'm familiar with are from the last 3-4 years, although the Pat's team under Kerr caught my attention back in the day too so a few from there will have to sneak in. I'd go with something like this:

Brian Murphy

Owen Heary
Pat Scully
Colin Hawkins
Simon Webb

Keith Fahey
Paul Osam
Kevin Hunt
Mark Rutherford

Dave Mooney
Jason Byrne

Subs:
Barry Ryan
Peter Hutton
Stuart Byrne
Joe Ndo
Gary Twigg

[Dodge]

Did any of you guys never hear of the likes of Barry Kehoe (Dundalk) Rocky O'Brien (Bohs) Jackie Jameson (Bohs) Noel Larkin (Athlone & Rovers) Liam O'Brien (Bohs & Rovers) or possibly even the all time ever leading LOI scorer Brendan Bradley (Finn Harps & Sligo) or this just a 90`s & 00`s question ?

Well people can only talk about what they’ve actually seen and the majority on this site are fairly young. I’ve been watching LOI regularly since the 87/88 season. Barry Kehoe was great but I’d have others ahead of him. At that stage the best days of Jameson, Larkin and Rocky were over. Liam O’B was in England

[Dodge]

Right, just before I’m about to get really busy, here’s my 2nd XI


--------Alan O’Neill--------------
Heary Scully Hawkins T O’Connor
---Fahey Doolin Fenlon -----
---Ennis O’Flynn Caulfield----

[CMcC]

In my time:

Brian Murphy

Hutton
Best
Heary

Doolin
Fenlon
Hunt
Fahey

Byrne
Crowe
Coyle

Subs:
Tilson
Scully
Osam
Mooney
Geoghegan


Special mentions to Turly, Pat Walker & Jackie Jameson (neither of which I saw much/enough of).

[alltogethernow]

O'Neill
Coleman
Peers
Hutton
Powell
Brennan
Fahey
Ryan
NDo
McGee
Arkins

Subs:
Brujos
Twigg
Crowe
Hunt
Heary

Have to say I was having a good laugh reading this team then collapsed when i saw Arkins;)

[Calcio Jack]

Gordon Banks

Jim Beglin
Craig Sives
Eoin Hand
Tony Dunne

John Giles
Bobby Collins
Bobby Charlton

Jimmy Johnston
George Best
Uwe Seeler

Subs: Barry Bridges, Bobby Tambling, Peter Lorimer, John Osbourne, Ronnie Whelan & Geoff Hurst

now beat that !!

[dong]

Have to say I was having a good laugh reading this team then collapsed when i saw Arkins;)

Great.

[btid1]

My team is based on the period 1995-2010.

1. Brian Murphy
2. Owen Heary (In his Shels days)
3. Seamus Coleman
4. Kevin Hunt
5. Peter Hutton
6. Pat Fenlon
7. Keith Fahey
8. Joe Ndo
9. Liam Coyle
10. Glen Crowe
11. Mark Rutherford

Struggled to get a left back to be honest so went with Coleman to play there even though its not his natural position.

[alltogethernow]

Great.

You really think that is the best team you have seen?

Brennan(Killian) and Ryan(Bobby) I presume should be no where near it and Arkins??

[passinginterest]

You really think that is the best team you have seen?

Brennan(Killian) and Ryan(Bobby) I presume should be no where near it and Arkins??

I'd imagine, him being a Sligo fan, that's PFAI player of the year Richie Ryan. It's a best 11 not a horse faced 11. ;)

[marinobohs]

My team would be

Brian Murphy



Heary Skully Hawkins Webb



Fahey Pat Byrne Doolin Rutherford



Crowe Jason Byrne


Subs

Alan O'Neill
Hunt
Jameson
Osam
Shelly


I will probobly have about 5 changes by tomorrow :rolleyes: but fun thinking about it.

[hoopy]

Pat Byrne is the best player of the last 30 years in the league, I'm sure not even the bitterest Gypo would deny that. As for the rest these threads just become a popularity contest for fans' own players. Heary should be on everyone's team unless you've only started to watch LOI the last couple of seasons. It's funny when you look at some of the forwards people put in instead of Twigg. Anyhow, Buckley and Jameson were a class of their own!

[marinobohs]

Pat Byrne is the best player of the last 30 years in the league, I'm sure not even the bitterest Gypo would deny that. As for the rest these threads just become a popularity contest for fans' own players. Heary should be on everyone's team unless you've only started to watch LOI the last couple of seasons. It's funny when you look at some of the forwards people put in instead of Twigg. Anyhow, Buckley and Jameson were a class of their own!

OMG !!!!!! I am in agreement with almost all of your post Hoopy (Pat Byrne in his Bohs days of course:cool:). Bucko would have made it as next on bench (went for versitility of Jameson). Too early to talk about Twigg in "all time" context although he may be in future.

If Bohs/shams are agreeing on things this thread should be locked now :D its just not right.

[dong]

You really think that is the best team you have seen?

Brennan(Killian) and Ryan(Bobby) I presume should be no where near it and Arkins??

Richie Ryan.

[SwanVsDalton]

My team would be

Brian Murphy



Heary Skully Hawkins Webb



Fahey Pat Byrne Doolin Rutherford



Crowe Jason Byrne


Subs

Alan O'Neill
Hunt
Jameson
Osam
Shelly


I will probobly have about 5 changes by tomorrow :rolleyes: but fun thinking about it.

Sorry Marino but have to ask - in all your time watching LOI have you actually managed to see any teams from outside Dublin?

[dfx-]

Its not worth reading anybodies team that does not start with Brian Murphy in goals

Much like not having McCourt

I've only seen him twice for Bohs...at Tallaght and wasn't overly impressed. Definitely caught out in no-man's-land for Twigg's injury time winner. How long was he at Bohs?

[dfx-]

Pat Byrne is the best player of the last 30 years in the league, I'm sure not even the bitterest Gypo would deny that. As for the rest these threads just become a popularity contest for fans' own players. Heary should be on everyone's team unless you've only started to watch LOI the last couple of seasons. It's funny when you look at some of the forwards people put in instead of Twigg. Anyhow, Buckley and Jameson were a class of their own!

I'd put it that fitness alone of even late90s players would blast a lot of the older players out of a side

[SwanVsDalton]

My nostalgia rose-tinted effort:

GK: Dermot O'Neill
CB: Dan Murray
CB: Peter Hutton
CB: Colin Hawkins
CM: Eddie Gormley
CM: Paul Doolin
CM: Joey Ndo
RW: Mark Rutherford
LW: Paddy McCourt
CF: Liam Coyle
CF: Jason Byrne

Subs:
Dave Henderson
Pat Scully
Tom Mohan
Joe Gamble
Stephen Geoghegan

[alltogethernow]

Much like not having McCourt

I've only seen him twice for Bohs...at Tallaght and wasn't overly impressed. Definitely caught out in no-man's-land for Twigg's injury time winner. How long was he at Bohs?

He is best keeper I have ever seen in the league.

2 of the stand out performances for me over the last 10 years have been Brian Murphy in Derry when he single handidly got us a valuable point and Keith Fahey's performance in the second half of a cup semi final in Inchicore a couple of years ago. We were 3 up at half time and just managed to hold on after Fahery destroyed us in second half.

Hunt is a definate for anyone's team as well.

[SwanVsDalton]

Hunt is a definate for anyone's team as well.

Hunt's a brilliant player alright, probably should be in mine in some form or fashion. But CM is very competitive. Not much to call between loads of players.

[Straightstory]

Gordon Banks

Jim Beglin
Craig Sives
Eoin Hand
Tony Dunne

John Giles
Bobby Collins
Bobby Charlton

Jimmy Johnston
George Best
Uwe Seeler

Subs: Barry Bridges, Bobby Tambling, Peter Lorimer, John Osbourne, Ronnie Whelan & Geoff Hurst

now beat that !!
Clever!
Might have Roy Keane instead of Bobby Collins - just.
Remind me who Geoff Hurst and Ronnie Whelan played for in the league? (I presume you mean Ronnie Whelan 'The Younger'?)

[pineapple stu]

Cork somebody-or-other and Home Farm.

Probably put McGrath in for Sives. Tight call though.

[Dodge]

Whelan Jnr played for Home Farm, Senior played (mostly) for Pats

A few older Pats fans still talk about McGrath's debut for Pats (at centre forward) and how he quickly showed he was head and shoulders above the rest of them

[marinobohs]

Sorry Marino but have to ask - in all your time watching LOI have you actually managed to see any teams from outside Dublin?

Yea, just no good ones :) . As I said that was a first bash at best X1 and I could probobly do a second X1 almost as good (although I would fancy that X1 against most).

[De Town]

Stephen O'Brien

Sean Dillon
Barry Ferguson
Graham Gartland
Sean Prunty

Alan Kirby
Dean Fitzgerald
Vinny Perth
Shane Barrett

Eric Lavine
Dave Mooney

[Fivesilver]

Gordon Banks

Jim Beglin
Craig Sives
Eoin Hand
Tony Dunne

John Giles
Bobby Collins
Bobby Charlton

Jimmy Johnston
George Best
Uwe Seeler

Subs: Barry Bridges, Bobby Tambling, Peter Lorimer, John Osbourne, Ronnie Whelan & Geoff Hurst

now beat that !!

No Dixie Dean?

[Cuyahoga]

Stephen O'Brien

Sean Dillon
Barry Ferguson
Graham Gartland
Sean Prunty

Alan Kirby
Dean Fitzgerald
Vinny Perth
Shane Barrett

Eric Lavine
Dave Mooney
No Bias then!

[Aaron]

Did any of you guys never hear of the likes of Barry Kehoe (Dundalk) Rocky O'Brien (Bohs) Jackie Jameson (Bohs) Noel Larkin (Athlone & Rovers) Liam O'Brien (Bohs & Rovers) or possibly even the all time ever leading LOI scorer Brendan Bradley (Finn Harps & Sligo) or this just a 90`s & 00`s question ?

Thats why I asked people for their best teams in YOUR time following the league

[oriel]

CTIL, you certainly did, I missed that, apologies. So these teams will be biased towards home fans as you will have seen these playes the most.

Mine, and I set a standard of having at least 2 league titles for each player, Paul McGrath the exception for his Ireland legendary displays. Very sad to note two of these are now dead , Barry Kehoe and Jackie Jameson (sub)

Richie Blackmore (Dundalk 1976 - 83)

Eoin Heary (Shels & Bohs present)
Dermot Keely (Dundalk & Rovers 70's/80's)
Tommy McConnville (Dundalk & Waterford 70`s)
Paul McGrath (Pats, 80's)


Pat Fenlon (from the Pats team late 80`s)
Barry Kehoe (Dundalk 1980 - 89)
Martin Murray (Dundalk 1985-90)
Paul Doolin (Bohs, Rovers, Shels 80`s, 90`s, 00`s)

Noel Larkin (Athlone & Rovers 80`s)
Liam Coyle (Derry 80`s & 90`s)

Subs

Jackie Jameson (Pats & Bohs 70`s/80`s)
Rocky O'Brien (Bohs early 80`s)
Liam O'Brien (Bohs and Rovers 80`s)


Manager

Jim McLaughlin

[harry crumb]

This is my team.

1998 is about the time I took an interest.

Brian Murphy
Owen Heary
Dan Murray
Colin Hawkins
Danny Murphy
Paddy McCourt
Kevin Hunt
Wes Hoolahan
Ollie Cahill
Liam Coyle
John O'Flynn

[dfx-]

---Caulfield----

I can never remember if him or Morley were better. All I remember for Caulfield is "Goal scored for Cork by number 11 John Caulfield"

[nigel-harps1954]

In my time, possibly last 10-11 years.

James Gallagher

Heary (shels days), Hutton, Murray, Minnock

Ndo, Hunt, Mohan, McGrenaghan (personal favourite from early 00's Harps)

McHugh, Doyle

Subs:

Crowe
Fahey
Rutherford
Lavine