Armagh hard men

[corn02]

Double reason for this.

A GAA hard man topic is in action elsewhere.

Also, is Stew on this forum, if so, pm me lad.

So, Armagh. Bellew, The Grimleys but the hardest player within the county was surely Christy Toye.

[pearse og lad]

Ger Reid, martin mcquillan, john donaldson would have been the hardest players in Armagh that I would have watched.

[corn02]

, john donaldson .

Hard, not dirty I mean.

[pearse og lad]

He was a mixture of both, hard and dirty.

[SHIPWRECK]

Martin Toye! Christy Toye is a sideways passing fairy from Donegal. by all accounts marty toye was tough stuff!

[corn02]

Martin Toye! Christy Toye is a sideways passing fairy from Donegal. by all accounts marty toye was tough stuff!

Good spot my man, but does he have a brother called Christy too?

Marty is one guy you wouldn't mess with.

[retired]

His brother is called Eamon, plays fullback for Maghery.

[Rufus T Firefly]

His brother is called Eamon, plays fullback for Maghery.

Both of the Toye Brothers were /are as hard as nails. Maghery also had a few others in their team of the late eighties / early nineties who would qualify under the hard player rule.

Edit: One of the hardest in my time playing was Paul Grimley of the Ogs.

[corn02]

Can't really think of any standout hardmen from Dromintee to be honest. I' say a few of th boys in the early 80s were tough enough - but then again, maybe that's strolling into dirty territory rather than hard!

[bcb1]

Eamon Toye was one of the hardest feckers I ever had the displeasure to be marked by The great thing about him though was you could bate the shite out of each other all day and then it was staright into the club house for pints with him after. Nothing left the field. Collie Bynre from Mullaghbawn and Kevin Burns from the Bridge were 2 hardy feckers and my own old team mates the Cassidys were able to give the odd hit.

You're right corn, I don't remember any hard men from Dromintee either