Ireland's greatest rugby player of ALL TIME

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  • @john6714
    @john6714 Рік тому +55

    As a very proud munster man may I say I 100% agree

  • @michaelhooley
    @michaelhooley Рік тому +52

    I feel like BOD is 13 in the greatest XV of all time?!

  • @DannyOHagan-f6v
    @DannyOHagan-f6v Рік тому +39

    From a Kiwi
    He's your best ever
    Top bloke as well

  • @willkaraitiana4954
    @willkaraitiana4954 20 днів тому +2

    From NZ , O'Driscoll is Ireland's Greatest Player.💯👍

  • @Dmanz67
    @Dmanz67 Рік тому +15

    Irelands top try scorer by the age of 23 says it all.

  • @joeconnolly6978
    @joeconnolly6978 Рік тому +33

    Best Irish sportsperson period!!!

  • @CALOCALKY
    @CALOCALKY Рік тому +3

    I sat in a pub in killarney on my own watched him scored 3 trys against France . Out of no where. The pub today will be dull for a French game

  • @joeconnolly6978
    @joeconnolly6978 Рік тому +15

    Bod by mile. To me best Irish sportsperson ever. Despite his banging drums👀

    • @Evanm68
      @Evanm68 11 місяців тому +2

      What Roy Keane achieved in football is far more impressive than what BOD did in rugby and that’s no disrespect to him. The sheer number of people who want to play top flight football in England is nuts, Keane dominated over there for 12+ years and has the medals to show for it. The difference in scale of the sports gives it to Keane imo

  • @Skeletoncrew46and2
    @Skeletoncrew46and2 Рік тому +7

    Totally agree!!!

  • @roscokillian
    @roscokillian Рік тому +1

    Totally agree. He was amazing.

  • @bernieob9577
    @bernieob9577 Рік тому +5

    One of the greatest

  • @RicardoOlivares-k4w
    @RicardoOlivares-k4w Рік тому +10

    Forgot Willie John McBride and Keith Wood in his list

    • @sox7784
      @sox7784 Рік тому +1

      Great players ❤

    • @peterfrancis7
      @peterfrancis7 Рік тому +3

      He named who he could on the spot. I'm sure if he sat down and had time to think about it, those players and several others would have come to mind.

  • @andrewclavin7447
    @andrewclavin7447 11 місяців тому +1

    Is that his brother?

  • @mrcusack7516
    @mrcusack7516 Рік тому

    What episode was this so I can listen to it in full?

  • @davidmartin8835
    @davidmartin8835 Рік тому +11

    BO'D no 1. Keith Wood no. 2

  • @sjjcurtin
    @sjjcurtin Рік тому +1

    Best ever and an absolute gent.

  • @frostysfreeway2320
    @frostysfreeway2320 Рік тому +17

    People have quickly forgotten how impactful BOD was from day one as a test player. Ireland were in the wilderness when he came on the scene and he singlehandedly made them a team to contend with . He was a superstar from his test debut all the way to the end. Sexton was a very average player in his twenties and developed into a wonderful player in his thirties, helped by a far better team than BOD had at the start of his career.

    • @oliverhunter9495
      @oliverhunter9495 Рік тому +5

      You are forgetting the powerhouse that was Keith Wood. He carried a far worse Irish team for years. BOD was the better player, he’s arguably the best northern hemisphere player ever. But Wood laid the first bricks for the Irish revolution

    • @frostysfreeway2320
      @frostysfreeway2320 Рік тому

      @@oliverhunter9495 Agreed, he was a true warrior . Probably the most lethal hooker I have ever seen on the hoof and a proper darts man at line out time

    • @derekdevaney2242
      @derekdevaney2242 Рік тому +2

      Guys I agree with ye both on how great BOD and Wood were, but to say they did it single handedly it so disrespectful to some of the brilliant players they played with at international level. Ye forget that both played for Ireland in the Lens debacle ; losing to Argentina in the World Cup? It was under Warren Gatland that the revolution occurred , when he wasn’t afraid to make wholesale changes and back youth.

    • @frostysfreeway2320
      @frostysfreeway2320 Рік тому +1

      @@derekdevaney2242 Yes very valid point.. Gatland deserves some Kudos for his contribution

    • @paulcostello1807
      @paulcostello1807 2 місяці тому

      ​@@oliverhunter9495was probably yes until the arrival of Saint Anton who is a freak a god in a man suit he has raised the bar comfortably

  • @Irish-Gael-sg4lv
    @Irish-Gael-sg4lv Рік тому +2

    I totally agree, but another man who rarely gets mentioned is Willie John McBride, in my opinion Irelands second greatest player ever.☘️

  • @StewPops
    @StewPops Місяць тому

    My favourite was the( jack Russell) stringer cause he was some player and showed everyone that even small chaps could do damage

  • @SuperShteveMadden
    @SuperShteveMadden Рік тому +1

    People who say a different player is better have just forgotten just how good BOD was

  • @olivernyhan2740
    @olivernyhan2740 Рік тому +2

    BOD is the greatest in terms of his ability and talent. Like his quantifiable attributes you have to say him. But Sextons impact in terms of reading the game and calling plays and that passing into the Leinster and Irish teams, has done more for the game here than anyone else has even come close to. To me, sexton has had the biggest impact on improving the team and the game in the country, so I would call him our greatest ever.
    However if you see me in person I will deny I ever said this, ROG and O Connell all day 😂

  • @unicornkatie8566
    @unicornkatie8566 10 місяців тому +1

    All time lion great aswell

  • @LeinsterExile
    @LeinsterExile Рік тому +3

    BOD was great but Sexton did more to make both Leinster and Ireland better! We achieved more with Sexton!

    • @Irish-Gael-sg4lv
      @Irish-Gael-sg4lv Рік тому +4

      New Zealand achieved more with Cory Jane compared with Jona Lomu... The argument of judging individual players on teams honours is absolute brainless nonsense

    • @JoeBloggz-x2j
      @JoeBloggz-x2j 12 днів тому +1

      Somewhat right. Sexton had a better team to play with. BOD dragged a lot of average players with him.

  • @patman142
    @patman142 Рік тому +2

    No doubt BOD had the best individual skills but for me, for his overall impact on a team, it's Sexton

    • @frostysfreeway2320
      @frostysfreeway2320 Рік тому +4

      BOD single handedly carried the team with him from his debut (think early 20’s). Ireland were a very ordinary team that was capable of real magic when BOD played. Sexton was part of a proper functioning team in his latter years and only really developed into the star we know in his thirties.. BOD had no quiet years….Sexton was a very ordinary player for the first 7-8 years of his career.

    • @patman142
      @patman142 Рік тому +4

      @frostysfreeway2320 disagree with that, it was the Munster pack of the noughties who made us really competitive as a team but BOD was the cutting edge we needed. It's also about the position, you have a lot more responsibility and control over a game at 10.

  • @johnswan6759
    @johnswan6759 Рік тому +1

    100 per cent agree. By a 100 miles

  • @-NemoMeImpuneLacessit
    @-NemoMeImpuneLacessit Рік тому +1

    Imagine peak BOD in the present side? 😮

  • @shaneotoole1757
    @shaneotoole1757 11 місяців тому

    What he at theses days is he in coaching?

  • @neilbe7118
    @neilbe7118 Рік тому +2

    Apparently Jack Kyle was pretty insane

  • @castleofsong9620
    @castleofsong9620 11 місяців тому

    100% agree.

  • @GerardMaher-ru3be
    @GerardMaher-ru3be Рік тому +1

    If he was so great where are his World Cup medals? Good in Mickey Mouse games but give me Willie Duggan any day.

  • @BMC-hl2uh
    @BMC-hl2uh Рік тому +1

    Fergus Slattery, Willie John McBride

  • @admaga
    @admaga 9 місяців тому

    Just imagine BOD and Mike Gibson as a centre partnership!

  • @itshistoryman
    @itshistoryman Рік тому +2

    Ahh yes, Brian o'driscoll.
    Best Irish player ever.
    Still he never won a world cup (one player or play does not make a good player.
    As a Saffa, o'Driscoll is a ledgend of the game, but Sexton did more for you guys and the way he brought that team together.

    • @Irish-Gael-sg4lv
      @Irish-Gael-sg4lv Рік тому

      Neither did Jona Lomu... So by your brainless logic the greatest player in history shouldn't even be considered anywhere in that conversation because his team weren't able to win more trophies. You're not the sharpest tool in the box. Saffas have no respect for the game and the spirit of the game, constant classless braindead bashing disguised as humility.

    • @fburke2011
      @fburke2011 Рік тому

      Sexton would not exist without Brian

  • @Rayrulesohye
    @Rayrulesohye Рік тому

    Agree!!

  • @francishughes3422
    @francishughes3422 11 місяців тому +1

    O’Driscoll
    Keane
    Katie Taylor
    Top 3

  • @dermotoconnell2919
    @dermotoconnell2919 Рік тому

    Brian all day long. Genius.

  • @jmo8934
    @jmo8934 Рік тому

    For me O’Driscoll also.

  • @cdemo1186
    @cdemo1186 Рік тому

    Not only is he Ireland's greatest player.
    I believe he's the best 13 in the world.
    No one can compare.
    Just my opinion.

  • @rohp1283
    @rohp1283 Рік тому

    O Gara. Also the greatest pundit. Slammed SA for an easy path to their win in 2019, and tipped Ireland to trash SA and win 2023. Then he went to groumd. He should remain there

  • @columkenn
    @columkenn Рік тому

    Agreed.

  • @markcrossman3356
    @markcrossman3356 Рік тому

    Agreed☝️

  • @rowan_8755
    @rowan_8755 5 місяців тому

    By the end of his career could Sheehan be in the mix?

  • @niklasprice1049
    @niklasprice1049 Рік тому

    BOD almost always gets selected by ex-professionals in their international dream team, Sexton is regularity omitted.

  • @mvubu6823
    @mvubu6823 11 днів тому

    BOD is the only one who is ever mentioned in a world XV team.
    There isnt anyone close.

  • @SeanT649
    @SeanT649 Рік тому

    Yea there isn’t really an argument Brian O Driscoll was just meant to play rugby from the pitch he somehow always had a Birds Eye view.

  • @JM19649
    @JM19649 Рік тому +1

    Dunner is correct.. bod 1 and its not close

  • @andyanderson5326
    @andyanderson5326 Рік тому +1

    Like be in an Irish team that beat the All Blacks

  • @joesoap106
    @joesoap106 Рік тому

    It’s hard to pick all Irish players r legends

  • @jameswyatt4443
    @jameswyatt4443 Рік тому +11

    It’s Jean Kleyn. Only Irish international to win a quarter final.

  • @032theo
    @032theo 10 місяців тому

    Keith Wood

  • @skar5541
    @skar5541 Рік тому

    Sexton is close. I'd personally go Keith Wood out of love. The Raging Potatoe!!!!

  • @AB-lq1zd
    @AB-lq1zd Рік тому

    Best by far

  • @Netjetjim
    @Netjetjim Рік тому

    Ronan ogara 💯

    • @Netjetjim
      @Netjetjim Рік тому

      I'll argue this

    • @JoeBloggz-x2j
      @JoeBloggz-x2j 12 днів тому +1

      O Gara was great but he wasn't a rounded player. Anyone with such poor tackling techniques cannot be up there.

  • @philbarrance
    @philbarrance Рік тому

    WILLIE JOHN MC BLOODY BRIDE NEVER GOT A MENTION?????

  • @willemsteyn7808
    @willemsteyn7808 Місяць тому

    Whoever lost the most WC qf's is your best player.

  • @edwardmadden1231
    @edwardmadden1231 11 місяців тому

    Na bondee Aki for me all the way

  • @Klberts1234
    @Klberts1234 Рік тому

    Kieth Wood enters the chat 😂

  • @ghosthandle180
    @ghosthandle180 Рік тому +1

    Sexton dropgoal against France was the best individual piece of skill by an Irish rugby player ever. Throwing the ball over hickeys head was mickey-mouse.

  • @golaoi
    @golaoi Рік тому

    easily the best..

  • @davidpurcell8189
    @davidpurcell8189 11 місяців тому

    O' Driscoll easily irelands best player

  • @SmcdMcd-d2k
    @SmcdMcd-d2k Рік тому

    Johnny had a better rugby brain . Brian had better skills

  • @Robbybabes1988
    @Robbybabes1988 Рік тому +3

    BOD was definitely the best Irish player of all time and the best 13 to ever play the game.

  • @niallmacceide4603
    @niallmacceide4603 Рік тому +1

    Mike Gibson was better.

  • @TrevorSmith-nm9mm
    @TrevorSmith-nm9mm 10 місяців тому

    Will we be say Hugo is are best all time player

  • @itsovergetuptherejoe
    @itsovergetuptherejoe 11 місяців тому

    He was unplayable in the early 2000nds

  • @stevenmorcom2247
    @stevenmorcom2247 10 місяців тому

    Mike Gibson was better but played against better teams.

  • @seanwalsh7201
    @seanwalsh7201 11 місяців тому

    Bod was " him "

  • @henryjamesnigel
    @henryjamesnigel Рік тому

    Willie John? How many Lions tours?
    Doing fancy tricks does not make you a great player!

  • @jmo8934
    @jmo8934 Місяць тому

    Yeah O’Driscoll was the best.

  • @johnmckiernan987
    @johnmckiernan987 Рік тому

    Tony Ward was the best ever.

  • @MrSuperdave75
    @MrSuperdave75 11 місяців тому

    Tony ward

  • @foodfordudes
    @foodfordudes Місяць тому

    Dricco was the best

  • @Ciaranmch
    @Ciaranmch Рік тому +1

    Nahhh Jonny sexton. Please see squidge rugby tribute video as a reminder why this is wrong

    • @jeffrey89095
      @jeffrey89095 Рік тому +3

      Amazing video but BOD is geniunely a whole level above sexton. Like comparing Scholes to Messi.both awesome, one on his own planet

    • @JoeBloggz-x2j
      @JoeBloggz-x2j 12 днів тому

      Sexton played with much better Irish teams.

  • @anauanau1229
    @anauanau1229 Рік тому

    only great when you guys eventually win a world 🌎 cup I don't believe that they never will just like France

  • @foreignwarren7361
    @foreignwarren7361 Рік тому

    ...and not one of them can get Ireland out of a quarter final 😂 🇿🇦🏆🏆🏆🏆

    • @michaelharnedy
      @michaelharnedy Рік тому +2

      SA are a joke in the Rugby Championship. Couldn't even win it last year when NZ were in a mess 😂

    • @foreignwarren7361
      @foreignwarren7361 Рік тому

      @@michaelharnedy Cry me a river you big naff 🇿🇦 = 🏆🏆🏆🏆 🇮🇪 = 0 🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂

    • @foreignwarren7361
      @foreignwarren7361 2 місяці тому

      @@michaelharnedy we focus on bigger occasions, and stop liking your own comments it's sad and pathetic....

    • @michaelharnedy
      @michaelharnedy 2 місяці тому

      ​@@foreignwarren7361The usual rationalising of a sore loser. Is that your explanation for why Argentina humbled you yesterday also...? 😂

    • @foreignwarren7361
      @foreignwarren7361 2 місяці тому

      @@michaelharnedy humbled? 1 point win over a third rate team, jesus, we really do live rent free in you lots heads LMFAO

  • @Meandme710
    @Meandme710 Рік тому

    Irish never made it past the world cup quarterfinals, not even once.

  • @TineBeo
    @TineBeo Рік тому

    Shtopp.. always at it.

  • @johnreddington3646
    @johnreddington3646 Рік тому

    ogara is the goat

    • @JoeBloggz-x2j
      @JoeBloggz-x2j 12 днів тому

      ua-cam.com/video/BVmvz4wgqfo/v-deo.html