Who is your pick for football and hurling PwC All-Stars 2023?

So you've sat down to pick your PwC Football All-Stars for 2023 but you're stumped on where to even begin? Turns out you're in good company.

Picking a team of the year, in either code, is always a head scratcher. Sometimes it'll present a mathematics dilemma in midfield - how do you fit three or even four deserving nominees into just two positions? Other years, you'll be spoiled for choice in the full-forward line and be left wondering how to cram in all those point poachers.

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This year's football quandary appears to be how exactly you settle on a defence that reflects the breadth of brilliance displayed throughout Championship 2023?

Truth is, there are no right or wrong answers. Only pressing cases for inclusion which come at you one after the other as you look at the long list of options.

Take the easy one first. It's a given that you can scribble down Stephen Cluxton's name in goals and take it from there, right? A solitary goal conceded in his eight Championship starts, a 100% success rate with his All-Ireland final kick-outs, that innate leadership. And all of that after only returning from retirement to resume life as Dublin's number one this year. Or maybe you were won over by Rory Beggan's sweeper 'keeper role, complete with standout saves and regular scores. Kerry's Shane Ryan was totemic too. And so the decisions begin!

The beauty of it all is that you'll finish with a gifted lineup, regardless of who you pick.

So while you might favour Conor McCluskey's dynamism in the full-back line for Derry over, say, Aidan Forker of Armagh, you're still going to be left with a gifted man in the corner. Give Kerry's Tom O'Sullivan the nod in the other corner-back