DUBLIN’S STEPHEN CLUXTON and Tipperary’s Seamus Callanan have been announced as the PwC GAA-GPA Player of the Year award winners for 2019.
The All-Ireland winning captains were honoured tonight at the Convention Centre in Dublin at this year’s awards ceremony.
Cluxton and Callanan both win the respective awards for the first time. Dublin pair Con O’Callaghan and Jack McCaffrey were the other football nominees while Kilkenny’s TJ Reid and Cork’s Patrick Horgan were also on the hurling shortlist.
Dublin goalkeeper Cluxton also claimed his sixth football All-Star tonight while Callanan is now a four-time hurling All-Star.
Cluxton is the second Dublin player in a row to be recognised with six players in all from the capital side winning it this decade after the feats of Bernard and Alan Brogan, Michael Darragh MacAuley, Jack McCaffrey and Brian Fenton.
Callanan – who was nominated previously in 2014, 2015 and 2016 – is the first Tipperary player since Lar Corbett in 2010 to be honoured.
It’s the first time that both of the victorious captains have won the leading individual honour in the same year, Tipperary’s Tommy Dunne the last hurling captain to be crowned in 2001 with Armagh’s Kieran McGeeney recognised back in 2002.
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Delighted for Callanan. Should’ve won it in 2016 so this makes up for it
@Alison Kennedy: incredible year for the two of them. And gentlemen both – both on and off the field. Genuine role models for all our young players.
To be fair hard to argue with both
Delighted for Callanan. Should have got it in 2016. Cluxton was amazing this year. Well deserved by both players
The absolute correct pick. Well done Cluxo
Well done to the two lads
Simply the best. Callanan
Well done to both players. The right choices.
Go wan the Dubs!!!!
@The digenous: about time.
Jack McCaffrey should have got this award, sentimental award for cluxton i feel to send him into retirment
@Alan Brazil: as usual Alan, you cant help yourself trying to divide opinions. Be better if you gave your full explanation as to why in one post instead of trying to develope an ongoing debate
@Aonghus OReilly: Cluxton didnt have much to do all year until the all ireland finals, hes a goalkeeper, his job is to keep the ball out if the net , scroll down to one of the comments from someone else, “Best keeper in the land but its a bit like give it to giggs” Macaffery was outstanding all year esp in the drawn final was it 1-3 from play from wing back if i remember correctly
@Alan Brazil: No Alan, his job is not just to keep the ball out of the net. His job is to build the next play, to distribute the ball as he see’s fit from a kick out. A goalkeeper is the last line of defence and the first line of attack. The modern game has been built around attack from defence. As much as this may not be pretty, it has results. His pinpoint accuracy is acknowledged far beyond football. Stephen has helped turn his position into one thats no longer seen as the lad who cant run etc. I doubt if anyone from any county or beyond with a proper knowledge of football would argue that point. In my opinion, a player of the year is someone who has helped their county win the all Ireland that year, and without their influence, it may not have happened.
@Aonghus OReilly: he wasn’t player of the year , wasn’t even near it , was at least 5 ahead of him , a token merit which degrades the award .
@Aonghus OReilly: he has been doing that for almost 10 years now, are you going to say he deserves footballer of the year as well for all those years? He did miss the leinster championchip too
Congratulations to Seamus Callanan. Well deserved award.
Hard to argue with Callanan but Horgan was phenomenal too. Hope his time will come
@Vincent Kelly: Horgan won f all and that’s the problem,fantastic player though and deserves an all Ireland
The right choice both players played major parts throughout the season in the winning of both all Ireland’s .
Two great captains also !!
Callanan deserves every bit of that award, he was immense. Cluxton was the best keeper in the country yet again but it’s a bit give it to Giggs
Not outrageous but Pat Horgan really should have won this.
@John O Sullivan: why is that?
@John O Sullivan: he should in his hole, 1 very good performance against a team that was beaten a point a man in an All Ireland final, Callanan was good in every game
@Philip McLoughlin: good man Philly you tell him
@Philip McLoughlin: he’s been outstanding for three years straight.
@Padraic Corcoran: consistently excellent for the last three years
@Padraic Corcoran: Probably because he is the best player in the country…..
@John O Sullivan. Obviously you are from Cork if you think that. He was actually number 3, TJ Reid was better than him.
@John O Sullivan: Don’t make him entitled to win the best hurler that year. The best hurler that year gets it, not a consitent hurler for 3 years. Cop on. Several hurlers are consistent, dont mean they deserve hurler of the year
@Derek McEvoy: whether i am from cork or not is irrelevant. Not one bit of my comment expressed bitterness. I genuinely think he was outstanding this year and peaked with an outstanding display against the cats.
Cop on you say??
Words typed by another keyboard warrior.
@John O Sullivan: Ah well it is relevant as you’re obviously a massive fan of your own man so it’s not exactly impartial. But that’s your opinion so fair is fair. Im sure many will say Noel McGrath who essentially created every Tipperary play throughout had a far superior year than either Reid or Horgan and wasn’t even nominated. So obvious there wasn’t going to be a repeat of the Gleeson farce in 2016 by having the Tipp vote split. SC was outstanding and deserved it by a long way.
@Derek McEvoy: And Noel McGrath was better than TJ.
@Dave Russell: just my opinion.
As I stated previously, I’m not outraged.
@John O Sullivan: As I noted John, fair enough!
Unbelievable a man that had nothing to do most of the year gets player of the year for being to kick a ball 20 yards. Joke
Don’t forget player of the year voted for by their peers not by committee. So I think it reflects the respect in which they both are held. Cluxton has set amazing standards for himself and consequently other goalkeepers with years…. really deserves this award
What happened Andy
Well deserved lads , you have all your fans and spectators a brilliant year.
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