Shane Stapleton and Michael Verney review a huge weekend of GAA action.
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Have to take it on the Chain aren’t I I think you’ll need more than 15% off that baby over there over over there this morning for people to buy it um so JZ what more would you want on a Monday morning awfully saved their division three football status um my second
County Kil Kenny are in a league final and tipari were well baited in Port leash Jesus what more do you want Oh Christ I mean right we just go straight into it can we believe what we saw in those two League semi-finals don’t get me wrong very good performances from both limr
And um from Kenny so CLA W sorry CLA and and Ken and Kenny Clare 124 TI 213 Kenny 317 limr 115 can you believe what you saw with your own two eyes in the games now I only got to see the highlights of Claire and tip because it was covering
Mayo and Manan but I saw every bit of the game on Saturday and that’s the probably the biggest takeway I couldn’t believe what I was watching I genuinely could not believe what I was seeing there were mistakes that limr were making that were like so routine handling errors that are just like notes
To Mony to them on a normal day it was bizarre what what I was looking at um and like it’s not as if the keni were good but they weren’t brilliant or they wer I wouldn’t even say they were very good liyi were just like that is the
Worst I’ve seen them play in a long long time and I suppose that’s that’s the unusual thing uh and you can say that getting to a league final and particularly with the idea of playing somebody that they’re either gonna be playing in round one or round two of
Monster is not part of the plan but they don’t throw in a performance like that like that’s such a rarity there was so many strange things going on in that game it was bizarre to watch really it was it was mad it was like something from the pre Kylie era I thought
Watching this liyc team just they look spooked on the ball there’s so many of their key players that you’re like did he only pick up a Hurley for the first time yesterday and that’s why I looked at their performance and obviously tip rary were terrible for long spells of
The game against CLA and I was like is this really the best that tip rary are going to be able to produce this year which brings me back to questioning the entire thing now I’m we we’ll delve into knows a little bit more but we obviously want to get the comments going straight
Away grogo Gran says tip her back to their 2022 form Christopher Conan says they’ll turn things around and of course crack at the ash lick man says thoughts and prayers with Christopher Conan Joseph Nash says worst limi performance since John Kylie took over the the two
Top teams for the all ered along with cor and League final uh full of energy and goals going by limi sideline Saturday John didn’t look one bit worried Lim had zero interest in winning the game uh come on Shane opened the dressing room and let us out fellas mad
To have a hop off each other and get stuck into it today look we’re we’re glad to get stuck into it um which G I think we should start off with Tipperary against clar scenes that happened yesterday you’re going to go hard on me aren’t you well i’ go hard enough in the
Sense like it was Jesus like um for the quality of free takers even the temporary have like that was some malfunction yesterday um and you can write it off as you know a bad day at the office but it was a bad day at the office say for probably three different
Free takers like there’s never you just don’t see Jason for been moved off the freeze four sorry yeah no yeah but sha Ry was the Ford free taker which you just normally don’t like Jason Ford is usually you know one of the best ball Strikers in the game GTO Connor wouldn’t
Be a million miles behind them um was just and you look at the nearly uniring accuracy on the other side from Mark Rogers before he went off and then from Aiden McCarty who nailed some big free into like what were tough conditions um it was just it was just very very Str to
See it um even some of the ball that the tip were hitting in at times was that kind of even the passes at times were kind of there was no real conviction in it was kind of a loopy ball in on top of a forward the one good ball nearly they
Got in was for probably for Jake Morris’s goal it was a lovely ball as good as Adam Hogan is and as tight as he is like there’s nothing you can do when a ball like that comes in but it was a real kind of Rarity the ball that was
Pinged out I think it was from Brian Omar out to the middle of the field as well that was pinged but that was kind of rare enough yesterday they started unbelievably slow they finished very poorly as well um in the middle and after a halftime was was decent and Sean
Haes had a goal got with only haven’t only been on the field a couple of seconds but like overall um I just disappointed I’d say I’m very very worried there’s no point to say any different because you’re so you are so close to Championship but like I was
Kind of thinking about this so tip got an extra game having qualified and there’s maybe a bit of negativity around um but there’s also some of their frailties have been exposed cark didn’t get an extra game and they’re just five weeks going into Championship like sometimes he can nearly be it can nearly
Be punished for for qualifying for you know a knockout game in this kind of scenario carker off working by themselves but if cark learned as much as tip have throughout the league probably probably not so I know Li catle had a bit of a call terms after and to
Keep the faith with uh with tipping that something is building and up until yesterday probably something had been building I wouldn’t you know I wouldn’t completely write them off after yesterday but there were definitely a lot of worrying kind of aspects that are play well let’s give CLA all the credit
That they absolutely deserve for this performance it was done without Tony Kelly without Shane O’Donnell without Ryan Taylor look we’re not entirely sure when he’s back without David mcinery if you plug all those boys back in for Championship or even for the league final I mean there is a question can
They all jel back in straight away and get to the same pitch that these other Lads are at but to do without those guys and to see like the likes of car McLean at is it Connor or car mcle Conor Conor yeah Conor apologies like he stepped in
Nicely uh Keith Smith had two points on the board after 45 seconds like what a dream start for him um they just had good performances all over the pitch and when Mark Rogers had to go off that Aiden mckern would just slip in and knock over the freeze I know you
Mentioned it already but just let’s contrast it here tieri with four takers scored six out of 15 Frees and this is an eight-o defeat now and after going down eight points to zip early on this is this probably decided the game to a degree six out of 15 versus 10 out of 11
Placed balls for for CLA and into that wind in the second half and like the wind is important we all know that like sometimes it gives you momentum at the start of the game and I couldn’t help but think of the lster club final that
We lost to aler De Balor that time now look ERS were the better team there’s no doubt about it but on that day in the first half playing against the wind Kola all at Sea and Ard made good on it in this here and look it it shouldn’t be
This much of a dramatic thing in the in a league game between Intercounty teams tieri were just all at se early in the game just all at C and CLA were brilliant at work on the puck outs and they were working some down the flanks
And tiari didn’t seem to be able to get out to those and we saw wasn’t Adam Hogan sold it up to Midfield and he was able to knock one over without coming near um any any tackler from maybe Midfield or whatever it was and then the
Long ones down were into space like the brilliant goal that David Fitzgerald got hold on sh and it was a brilliant goal but there is no way that if he turns his H to one side and the ball is flicked into the middle that the whole thing
Should open up either well here’s the question about like you know that I have question marks about who plays at number six for Tipperary and I I’m not sure that it’s that Robert burn is the guy who should be there he’s got his qualities don’t get me wrong but I’m
Just not sure that you need someone a bit more seasoned to command the center and people would talk about well well who’s there I mean Sheamus keny getting injured has been a massive thing and whether he plays Wing back or wherever he plays there’s a knock on effect now
Because Michael Breen came out and uh he was marking David Fitzgerald and he’s been having a brilliant season but it didn’t quite happen under that high ball he he SED waited to catch the ball and David fitzer was El to nip in ahead of him and obviously finished in in
Completely brilliant fashion there but look at the some of the injuries that tip area after picking up in recent weeks now it doesn’t toally explain away this non-performance but to see Sheamus kendi who’s like very experienced very composed great use to the ball kendi is out uh then you’ve got an Connelly who
Had been probably one of the star turns for tipari throughout the league he’s been out so just the knock on effect and then kahal Barrett still isn’t there so we can look at tipar and say right they’re all at C head in the championship and if you were to pick
That performance in isolation alone and say we’re going to judge everything on this tiar they all over the place they’re completely all over the place like I I was looking at and I was wondering what’s the puck out setup here because they’re not getting close to anybody on the short ones and there’s
Still space on the long ones and um like when you’re up against that wind I think you have to just sit off a little bit and be like if CLA goes short you’re drifting left and right and you’re not getting dragged out you keep something of a compact shape because the long ones
Can’t go into space they just cannot and you’ve got to have people organizing the fense and with kendi out in the backline and maybe you’re rejigging things a little bit and bringing you know Michael B out to the half backline it just looked like a temporary team that was
Really out of sorts but the upside is much like limr you’re now far more wide awake to some of the things that you need to fix well I always think I I I definitely think you’re better off to get the eye opener would you prefer to
Get the eye opener now or in five week time five weeks time when they play Limerick and like there’s a big difference between being you know you know nearly shipping a double digit to in a league semi-final and DAP in a championship game where you’re immediately on the back foot straight
Away and confidence is down um I’d always prefer to find out what’s wrong or find out what needs to be plugged or what needs to be changed rather than sleep walking your way into the monster championship and thinking everything is okay um and some of the time like even
Like tieri in in uh in 2010 like look at the they probably thought they were in a great position after the 20 2009 alland final and was the team that was going to take down Kil Kenny then all of a sudden you know isaki went to town and their
Defense was you know completely reshaped and players were moved into different spots and they fell upon a fairly kind of a sweet spot really and they fell Upon A team that ended up winning on and and stop on a drive for five so I’d always be of the opinion that it’s
Better to find out what’s wrong rather than thinking everything is perfect but the only issue is is that there was a lot wrong yesterday um and not that much time probably to turn things around but you know it seems like from what John Kylie is saying limi had been training
Very very well and delivered a seriously flat display from what NE cat is saying tip were in were in a good space and you know you know the vast vast majority of didn’t deliver anything yesterday I I tend to look at it through the league as
A whole and what we’ve seen like what we saw from lick throughout the league you know was you know good at times against hip good at times against against gway you know brutal on Saturday but what’s their goal at the end of the year to win
Six monsters in a row and be the first ever team to win you know an all Ireland five in a row in hland what’s tipperary’s goal um they would have liked to get to a league final they would have liked to win their first League since 2008 but their ultimate
Goal is to be in that tree to come out monster and that is at the end of the day that’s what they’ll be judged upon yeah k32 says limr were training very hard all week no interest in leing gone to Portugal for weeks training this morning do you know and this this would
Extend to both uh well actually any of the teams that played in the league semi-finals you just wonder how much in today’s world given Sports Science and risk of injuries and how many injuries every team is picking up this whole notion of training the morning of a of a
Big match I certainly don’t think that that happens but even flogging Players let’s say on Thursday night there if teams train on Thursday maybe some of them train on Friday like would you even train that heavily now maybe you’re like are you doing it within limits of what
Your snc coaches or your sports science people will agree on like we can’t just explain it away as these teams did a heavy weeks training or or is in your experiences that could that actually be the case yeah I I think it’s an easy thing to say now I know Anthony Daly
Will tell you that Claire did train theor in the league games back back in the day and it’d be totally maybe flat for a league game um but I don’t think that happens now because we’re a hell of a lot wiser and and I just think you’re
Running a massive massive Risk by doing that yet the vast majority might be able to handle that load on that day and train hard and play the goods of a game um but some Lads won’t and you think you’re getting you know what what might be a long-term gain and you’re ended up
With long-term pain of a guy been out with a a soft tissue injury or whatever but um yeah I I I I don’t know I don’t know about the heavy load at the minute um yeah may maybe uh maybe and they start tapering down in a couple of weeks
Ahead of monster but that’s kind of all kind of conjecture in here say we don’t we don’t know what’s going on in out in rail or down the G grounds or wherever lii are training or wherever you know Tipper doing their bits and pieces we don’t know exactly how L hard Lads are
Pushing themselves it was just it was bizarre to see how flat the two of them were in the space of 24 hours very very strange yeah David fitzer like scored one3 again and you just know he has this capacity for explosive moments and he could probably like it’s not like he’s
In a game constantly over 70 minutes like you look at some other players and Ryan Taylor he’s always beavering he’s always on the ball will donu he’s always doing something either destructive or working the ball to a teammate David fitzer could go 20 minutes and not do
All that much and then all of a sudden he’s buried the ball into the back at net he’s won the result in Puck out and put put it back over again if he has a big year you know he he could easily be in hurled year category and we we’ve
Talked about it for a long time he’s got that Austin gleon vibe to him as well where he can just do something bend the entire game to his will well he’s in h ear form at the minute anyway and as you say there he’s not going to be he’s he’s
So explosive as well that you can’t be making those explosive runs the whole way throughout the game like he’s covering a lot of ground at times doing defensive work but it’s not as explosive when he gets the ball realistically he can probably do what he does um exploding and through a tackle probably
Maybe seven or eight times in a game um and it probably probably an element of recovering as well after that and then going again maybe a couple of minutes later but I saw him down in I saw him down in Wexford park I think he’d six
Shots and ended up with five from play um he’s put he’s racking up huge huge talles and in that first four or five steps if you’re not right beside him or he gets to running you you are in Big Big B but like it’s almost like he’s taking that extra responsibility on his
Shoulders in the absence of Von and in the absence of Kelly and even putting Dugen out in the wing on the wing as well they have another kind of and I mean we we always say this as a compliment they have two good ignorant options on the wings if they’re in
Trouble and they have they’re probably both 64 65 about 15 stor plus probably and it’s a great luxury to have that I don’t know part of me thinks that Doug has been played inside for a couple of years as he acclimatized back to Intercounty Harland and Intercounty
Fitness he’s back at that now he’s at a stage where he can play uh on the wing and probably consistently do what an Intercounty half hour needs to do but they have those two options and yeah Fitz der is bringing some absolutely sparkin Farm H Into Summer and it just
Sounded as well Cho like Lan has built like a new team here realistically like did you know much about Smith lean you knew a bit about darlon maybe before the before the league started Kean Galvin like there’s a hell of a lot of new faces after staking a claim and I’m not
Saying every one of them is going to start Championship but they will be regular starters over the coming years and there will be guys that will be fairly battled hardened and ready to come in and make a difference in championship games this year if they’re not starting they won’t all be starting
But um it’s it looks like almost BR La has built a completely new team and as somebody said to me this morning they haven’t you know they’re not they haven’t pulled any of the all Ireland minor winners from last year I don’t think actually they’re eligible to play
Um and they haven’t pulled a lot of the the vast majority of the 20s that have been good for the last two years so there’s a lot of new faces in there there and it seemed to be a climatizing to scene out County Harlem pretty well
Yeah well look I go through that you you’ve kind of taken the the sentiment out of my mouth in in the sense of the young players coming yeah and then also Connor cley like he just really does Shore up that backline at all times he’s so unfussy it’s not it though it’s not
What you want you want a lad that’s not spectacular and that’s exactly what he is just does his job yeah yeah exactly yeah yeah and then like you you’ve got all these trusted lieutenants like in G is going to always do something positive for you David Reed is going to do it K
Malone even though like an unspectacular display deared Ryan is growing into this more and more again look you know how I feel about the Patch hats from 100 yards that clar lad’s take and sometimes he’s guilty of it but he’s such a good player like he really is excellent and I’d say
In another two or three years this lad will just you know he’ll be he’ll just be dominating games and he probably already is to some degree I’ve been so impressed with Daryl Ohan like he’s so unfussy about his job in the middle of the field and he’s really really
Competitive um like it’s like just the depth of this panel what they’re grow now I think ultimately you do need like every team probably still only has 18 or 19 Lads that they’re going to play in championship and there’s an element of Shadow Boxing in all these games but
Just CLA are up there with limi at the moment in terms of that panel they have to be and if we’re to just take if we to ignore that League semifinal in terms of its relevance for championship between limr and keni it does still feel like
CLA and limr won and two too and you know what I might as well might as well just remind people that we did a power rankings a couple of weeks ago and while I initially did have tiary up there in third I did adjust it and for a finish
Tipari were Fifth and you know what I’m not entirely sure after the weekend if they’re still fifth where would you have them oh it’s a cost of a time a CO between tipari and cark realistically um at the minute um I kind of just think car can have turned around their league
A small bit and I think Pat Ryan can have where he wants to have them and I don’t know if he he said he would would have liked another game but I actually don’t know if he if he would have liked another game I think he’s happy with
Where they are get a lot of their kind of key men backfish and back home for that first round but do you know what’s great about the weekend as well you know you get sick and tired of listening to all this BS about monster Harland and at
The end of the day the Foreigner all lster Champions took down the four all all Ireland Champions and took them down by eight points and the you you you’ll try and say you probably try and bring it up at some stage this summer if a result goes against Kil Kenny will Kil
Kenny get out monster and this kind of absolute Wallop it’s just I I don’t know if there’s been a weekend where more egg has ended up on your face than the weekend just gone yeah and you know what actually I I kind of ladled some of it
On myself a training there on Friday with Kenny lad there with the club and uh I was kind of laying it into about Kenny and stuff like that and then on Sunday morning we had training and I got there first you know and I opened the
Gate and the first man in of course happened to be him and he’s giving me the fist pump out the window yeah what could I do only take it on the chin but um yeah I mean look Dr be what would trouble me a little bit if if I was to
Really look into some of these performances and look at okay tiary last year against uh goway and Watford those two games that were very exacting in terms of like how the year finished up you know really dispiriting finishes to both of those games and I look at the
Games that really mattered in the League this year which was the limr one and also the one of course of yesterday against CLA and the fact that tip Ry finished the game with 213 and even against uh limr was it 316 or something like that yeah and I’m just thinking
You’re not raising enough Flags here whether they’re green flags or white flags it the goals are kind of keeping you alive and having Jake moris like probably the premier goal machine in the country it’s papering over the cracks because if you score and those four games that actually matter they’ve
Averaged 18.5 flags being raised per game that’s just not going to do it and I’ll even compound that by saying when tieri got back to within three points Connor B’s brilliant solo to set up uh Shan Hayes for the goal and then straight away after Jake moris sorry
Jason Ford he scored a free in the 37th minute so it was back to within three points for the rest of the game both teams created um 17 chances tieri scored scored five of 17 which is ridiculously low and CLA scored 10 of 17 so tiary had
Every opportunity to work their way back into the game but it was just like and I kind of asked myself what is it that happened here was it like like a Confluence of factors whereby right they’re a little bit jaded they came into the game Thinking CLA didn’t want
To win the semi-final and of course you know tipar going to win it because Tipper the team that ostensively needs another game and like Jason just had one of his biggest off days on the te I mean sometimes people say do you do enough
For him play as a free taker but like it was just total malfunction for him Gro Conor never got into the game Jake Mars didn’t get enough ball and then all the workhorses so darus St just didn’t happen for him at all Connor stakelum really off day for him and it just
Across the board it’s like so many off days and you’re just relying on Connor Bo’s few bursts and Willie Connor’s playing quite well and Brian Oma doing some good things yeah it was just like the too many work Shel but that that is something that that I kind of wondered
About because and like they brought in Sean canelli who like you know he’s really talented and he got a nice point and you know so they tried to bring in a bit more with him and maybe like a line breaker in um Sean hayen hold on now
Hold on now in the last 60 seconds you’ve said off the tea because you were watching golf last night and line breaker you need to relax now and pull pull the horns in and get the G8 terminology back on again okay well look I’m not sure how
You say that but took on his b he broke through attacker yeah he bet his man and I no I it’s a very fair point because it’s something that that I kind of had looked at I was like okay who are the scorers in the forward line and you’re
Thinking okay Jason Ford and Jake Mars and I would have thought that Gro OK Conor who maybe that really busy schedule has caught up a little bit and maybe the five weeks off now will will stand to him because he does look like a player tip have to hang her hat on after
That you had Connor stum you had uh well Dan McCormack was playing further back the field like Connor B was an attacker playing Midfield Willie Connors is an attacking type player but there’s probably not that many players who you think they could explode and hit six
Points for play here so have a point there yeah yeah you could well was it a bit strange that um that the team was rejigged like Bo has been Wing back nearly all the league and now he was I think he was predominantly out middle of
The field Bri Mara who I wouldn’t know as a cornerback would I know as a wing back or Center back maybe even fullback was in cornerback like I I thought they were peculiar moves now as well yeah well with with that and taking on Connelly out of the team through injury
And shames kendi out of the team it’s kind of like they rearranged an awful lot of the furniture and it just all came apart so I think there might be an element of of and also like you’re like you’re also taking cadel who played the
Last couple of games out of the team as well like there’s a big re jigging going on there and is it any wonder that Clare pulled it AP par yeah do you know what good or or do you look at the the shooting execution from Tipper are and like be like what on
Earth is this are we gonna see this again well I’d look at the two winners over the weekend and I would say they were both good but they weren’t outstanding it wasn’t like a vintage Kil Kenny performance no more than it wasn’t a vintage CLA performance I think they
Just did kind of what they had to do there were some kind of similar kind of parallels in the game as well like CLA just scored the freeze in the second half and kept ticking away Kenny didn’t score for from play for about 25 minutes in the second half to other other day
They just kept stroking over freeze and uh just kind of maintain that bit of a buffer that they had but it’s funny this type of a game um the likes of a Barrett and maybe a n mcra who are kind of waiting in the wings or not saying that
Were either either of them were struggling to get their spot back but You’ see it now that sort of a defeat leads to significant change and a Barrett who was maybe primed or might have been far away last weekend or would be ready in a couple of weeks he will be
In because you just can’t afford to maybe run the risk of what happened yesterday happening again so you would be expecting um a fair few changes I as I said to you there about the David F sh goal I was just amazed that that he was
Just able to kind of walk through the middle and I know he struck it from about 20 21 yards but once he flicked that ball away into open space and it was a very good Pock out by quilligan as well and it’s something they’ve been utilizing there’s no like he has to be
Met at the 45 and he has to be met again at the 21 unrealistically yeah oh totally true totally true and and even Mark Rogers that time he got through for the goal chance like there was four goal chances into space about five minutes so Jason Ford blast one over the bar after
Conor stum set it up he did Fair well to even get the shot away Shan like to control the ball at such Close Quarters and it was a very very good he blazed over I’m not sure if it was tipped over but he did well even get the shot away
Forward in that instance yeah and then Rogers came through and I thought it was poor defending from both bre and Robert burn um and burn just needs to engage the man there like a six needs to engage the man so look that that would be sort of my concern there but like you
Mentioned Kenny keeping himself in the game through freeze you’d have to like Aiden McCarty to come off the bench and knock his freeze like that on a day like that in the second half right the opening 23 minutes of the second half CLA scored just one point from Play Now
That was David fitzer sure like who else would it be only David Fitz Sher based on that performance and that was after a great Rock Was Won by keing Gavin but McCarthy was just knocking over freeze for sport and the only wide that they had during that period of time the first
Wi that they had from a shot in the second half was the 61st minute so in terms of economy of effort against a tiporary team that was hitting anything but you know the two posts or in between the two posts the only white they had was an overcooked pass from Aiden
McCarty which isn’t really a shot at all so you’d have to really credit them there for having that composure to and they’re the only unbeaten team in the country like does Brian Lohan not want to win a semi-final even though it’s close to Championship like he’ll want to
Win won’t he of course he will yeah 100% And the fact that he’s not like playing a full team throughout the league either as well he’s probably got eight nine 10 STS but he’s got a lot of new faces getting getting a chance as well will
They like to me the league final is uh very interesting in sense that like I know it’s a league or whatever but they do get a chance to win some silverware and maybe extra SI a few demons against Kilkenny from the last couple of years as well so I think it’s perfect that
It’s not similar to last year as well it’s not too um counties from the same Province there’s no element be no element of Shadow Boxing whatsoever I believe from from from looking at the comments coming in there the game is going to be on Saturday April 6th so as
Well it makes sense to have it on the Saturday Turles is what they’re saying even though that’s not officially reopened yet but hopefully it will be in the next couple of weeks it makes sense to have it on the Saturday to give the teams another 24 hours as well Le
Recover on the Sunday and then get back into training maybe two weeks from Championship thereafter yeah and just just a final point on the accuracy that Ed McCarty showed and CLA in general Against the Wind Against The Wind in the first half tieri scored eight of 17 47%
In the second half CLA scored 10 of 17 58% so they just like tier’s overall score and efficiency was 42% compared with 63% and if if all of these chances were just ridiculous efforts from the sideline you know I’d be just saying well look that’s just poor decision
Maker it was it was just awful shooting there was times when obviously we mentioned the free Tech and that was Dreadful but Connor stum uh sea Hayes they had chances from like 50 yards out in front of the goal not being tackled and they were missing these chances so
That’s why I’m like okay I’m not sure I’m ever going to see tipar as bad again but maybe maybe I’m rationalizing and you know kind of trying to put a brave face on it after such a bad performance yeah listen you know I I’d love to
Hammer you and I will Hammer you to a certain extent but like if you look at 2022 tip had a bad league and it was a series of underwhelming performances that led into a very very underwhelming Championship so tip have had some good performances um at times throughout the
League the goway game they were you know decent against limr for a period um they were good against dubl the first out you know what I mean you’re not carrying like this was a bad performance yesterday today but you don’t just put a line through them and say you know that
They’re gone or they’re not going to get out monster now at this stage not saying they have that much credit in the bank but they haven’t been playing really poorly up until this they’ve been playing fine up until this um and I think you could kind of see the
Disappointment on Li cattle’s face because like i’ say he was going going home for a league title and I’d say he’s left scratching his head this morning wondering um wondering kind of what happened or what led to such a flat display and they’re going to have to
Sort out out within within the next five weeks because that limr game um on I think it’s under 28 that’s a Hu that’s huge like like whatever whatever about getting a result how they perform that day will basically underpin how you know how they get on in Monster thereafter if
They ship a defeat like they did yesterday in the first round they’re in big big butter yeah Adrian mcra claran looking to S the boot into be honest that don’t play the meter tary six and seven points down had 12 players in the row and half at times and nobody inside
CES for it was a joke a shambles I suppose also like when you’re playing with such a strong wind you’ve got to be clever on the ball cam on the ball and and run it through the lines if the opposition hasn’t come out with you and
You leave one or two inside then you should be able to deliver it into like in the first half you’d feel a little bit sorry for the likes of b m in there because if the ball has been delivered up it’s going to hold up it’s going to
Be slow you’re going to have a Defender up your backside and then you once you do actually if you do get the ball you then have to try and turn and run against the wind and try and somehow get get a score out of nothing butle that’s what I’m saying sh about
The quality of ball that was going in it like it was not good ball it was not ball that was been pinged or driven in you know it was kind of hanging and even if a forward does win it you’re not taking it about any degree of speed or
Momentum and you’re taking it in a position you used to always say about for a couple of years there um where Shamus Canan was picking up the ball like picking up the ball out near the sideline for Tipperary which is there’s so much you have to do from there and
There was an element of that yesterday when the ball did go in um and like that’s not what I think of when I think of tip at their best I think of lovely crisp diagonal ball going in that’s real advantageous to a forward if he wins the
Ball he’s probably taken it and he’s nearly gone at his man nearly straight away whereas that wasn’t the case yesterday maybe outside of the Jake Morris goal that was the one time where I think it was Brian Oma pinged it to Dan McCormack and I haven’t seen Dan do
This that often but the ball he gave in was beautiful like it took Adam Hogan out of the game it was out to the right hand side moris did that lovely little fake off the Hur and turned back inside and there’s not a Defender can do but
Those sort of balls in were few and far between yeah I don when I was added let me say CLA were Immaculate in possession and they have to get all the credit that’s from a tip man Bryson Peters says Tipper pathetic Lads they’re so overrated Jord I’m loveing there’s so
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During tip cast during the week as well so good good luck with that yeah myself and uh and Shane Roi definitely be doing the postmart that’ll be on Wednesday we’ll move on to the clenny victory over your keni team beating limr what did you
Think of it what did you make of it just on this quickly because Conor heini has mentioned it twice um didn’t Vernie said that there was trouble in the Kilkenny Camp last week that was what I was not necessarily trouble but it I was led to believe that there was um some
Disharmony um and listen what I was told was from A Fairly reliable source that it wasn’t a Happy Camp they looked pretty looked pretty happy last Saturday definitely coming off the field around six o’clock anyway so that that could be rubbish and it was probably and to be
Fair it was probably a bit loose of me um to even put that out there at the time without properly checking it out and so I I’ll hold my hands up on that one hey loose lips sing ships loose lips yeah maybe we need to be a bit more like
Johnny tight Li from from now on I ain’t saying nothing but uh like I I put you this way what’s funny I think there’s several interesting things about that game on Saturday when limi went one two to no score up like what are you thinking Li gonna win by limi are gonna
Win by eight or nine and this is just like clockwork well we had own Larkin on the show last Friday and like understandably because I was thinking the same thing he was like you know you’d be worried a little bit about a 10-point loss here which again comes
Back to can we believe what we saw but I mean there’s a a lot about that limi performance no more than tip that stunk you know you look at go through it right the main players the the guys that we’ve hung our hats on over the years like
Nikki Quaid in goals didn’t look his normal self there was a couple of times he ended up like almost diving around the ball or even on the ball and you’re like that’s not him Barry Nash look he’s a player that we have just kind of written songs about nearly at this stage
But I’ve never seen him play like this he looked I mean he looked all over the place for him you know I mean let’s not take this as an insult R like that I mean he’s such a good player I was like what on Earth do we see in here like
Mistakes getting turned over getting being made look like a converted forward actually you know the time he was pinned by on Cody for that lovely goal he got pinned too easily and spun too easily and I was like is this like when you don’t have Mike Casey back there sort of
Organizing the show a bit like tipar missing Sheamus kendi and so you don’t have the main man who normally orchestrates back there and Sean Finn clearly isn’t right either then of a sudden you’re you’re you have to be the main man Defender even though maybe you’re more of a forward so that’s how
It kind of looked to me de Burns off the boil from the gecko like simple spills Dean Hannan looked a bit stuck to the ground Keen Lynch from his first run when he kind of ended up being unseated and overrunning the ball you’re like he doesn’t look like he’s running like
Himself and then he was turned over for the goal for for TJ Reid and he was just run off the road and I was like these Lads don’t look right will aduno was good car O’Neal was really good and beyond that I was like what am I
Watching here yeah no it was very very strange I I cut out that clip um in the first half where I think there were like eight mistakes in the space about like 15 seconds I think adri Mullen end up putting the ball over the bar but that
Was one of the times you mentioned there Hannah kind of spilled it around the goals and Nicki Quaid looked at C and it’s so it’s so weird to see it and then they grabbed control of of possession again and then they fumbled it again like it was weird I remember looking at
Barry Nash going to pick up a ball at one stage and you can of half alluded to this earlier that like it did look like he hadn’t held a Hur or something it was really strange and D Burns as well and there were popping balls off the shoulder remember C O’Neil popped the
Ball to Hannah off the shoulder at one stage and Hannon was just too close to him like it it wasn’t on he was like a yard away from ball spilled just some very very strange stuff like when was the last time you saw um Aaron Costo was
Oneon-one with a long ball in on codyy was oneon-one with a long ball in Shan Finn was oneon-one with a long ball in just there was no one uh there was no one covering back it was just very very strange I think you obviously have to
Give Kil Kenny plenty of credit and the fact that uh they looked in trouble earlier on and were onew to no score down um and it looked like Killian Bley was in a bit of B he was turned over a couple of times early doors Billy Ryan
Missed missed a kind of half goal chance where he scooped the ball off the ground it was a good goal chance Shane Murphy had a wide then K Kenny didn’t score until TJ Reed got free and in the ninth minute and then like liick were only
Able to score four more points in the rest of the first half and didn’t actually get that many shots away couple of Miss freeze and G missed a free around 55 yards out straight in front of the goals that was just really really strange you just you just wouldn’t see
It um but it was a bizarre it was a bizarre game to look at and just on Sean Finn as well um like and we obviously rate him unbelievably highly but like to me now he was not running right he like a month away from playing championship
And I would have you know serious concerns whatever about one of our viewers there says that he was unsure of himself I thought he was unsure of his leg genuinely and I look back on seven or eight different clips where he was 100% there was definitely no knee drive
In that leg anyway it looked like he was kind of carrying it but like he didn’t look right but he clearly was right or what he’s been doing in training was you know he was deemed fit to play or whatever but um he’s a lot gears that
He’s going to have to get up to over the next while but I I I I worry about whether he’s actually 100% um lad’s recover from Cru it’s differently like David Burke got back in jig time Bernard brogen got back in jig time he’s only saying this to someone yesterday Shan
Finn is he’s not like overly big like he’s 510 I’d say but he’s a huge man like he’s you know a lot of muscle mass on him um and maybe it’s going to take longer like right in saying Verger van djk wasn’t right the first year coming
Back after his crued is it only can It was it only the next season which I think is this season that he actually got back nearly 100% again maybe that’s the case with Finn as well and then you had Barry Nash was unsure of himself um Aaron Costo with due respect was very
Unsure of himself and like was caught in possession uh and was kind of caught badly by TJ for that high ball as well so but there there were there was a lot of lads in short themselves yeah it was just so odd and you just think Mike
Casey went off against goway what looked like a concussion issue I mean I’m think basically the way he was ambling off that’s what I thought it was and if he doesn’t come right quickly that would be a huge issue and he didn’t seem to take that bad of a Dunt but obviously look
The brain you know the way it works it doesn’t maybe it doesn’t necessarily need to be a bad dun but they’re missing him I understand fergo Conor was the was the same Shane that that that was that was a h from what I’m led to believe as
Well so that was two Ls that were missing as a result you know and can’t blame teams on really minding their players I mean of course they are especially when it comes to something to do with the head but if you plug into that team and these are more likely the
Starting players but Dan marsy if you throw in uh Mike Casey I feel like there’s another few players missing darl darl Donovan Sheamus Flanigan would probably be a starter and I feel like there’s one other player that I’m not thinking of off the top my head but
There’s a lot of players that you can plug into that team and all of a sudden Kyle Hayes K arguably the best player in the country I mean that totally changed the team around however good or bad tip were and they were bad it’s not like
Youve that sort of quality to plug back into the team and have a month to get it all right TP have the time to get it right but you don’t have the time to gel all of that quality straight back in that proven all Ireland winning quality
Yeah I’d say there’s nothing sure then Kylie will go back to the well with pretty much the same faces like would you be that surprised if if they’re all available that the same 15 players of Saturday all Ireland will start the first round against tip rer I’d say the
The only outside of maybe kle O’Neal but that’d be interesting to see where he fits into the jigsaw if Kyle ha is back fit like O’Neal and oig are the I would say the only two maybe threatening to start unless there is you know a problem with Sean Finn and maybe Fargo Conor
Could squeeze into the corner potentially but I I’d be fairly confident that Kylie will go back to the well with the same soldiers once again and and actually this feeds into a broader Point like you might look at the the limr for and raw team that you know
Won completed it last year and obviously started it back uh completed it mate completed M started 2021 to 2023 and you look at the keni team or6 to9 to four in a row the teams remained pretty constant throughout there there was probably a couple of changes in terms of starters
At the beginning and end of those runs but Lim’s team isn’t just that forign or o team it’s the team that won back in 2018 and beat go in that final I’ll read out that team and you tell me how many of these uh you reckon would start if
Fully fit this season and we’ll see what the turnover is like so Nikki quaad and goes Sean Finn Mike Casey Richie English dear M Burns Dean hannen Dan marsy darl Donovan Kean Lynch Gro heger Kyle Hayes Tom marsy Aaron Gan Shamus Flanigan gr mcah now how many of those players do
You reckon I mean obviously Richie English doesn’t see I I presume there’s an injury or something like that and gr he’s only just coming back from the Cru yeah and gr mcah seems to be more used on the bench these days but I 13 yeah 13
Was what I had I used very quick Abus on my hands flying through them but 13 was what I had um even though I from what I’ve seen throughout the league Flanigan is one of the more likely of The Usual Suspects to miss out just he probably hasn’t excelled throughout the league
Maybe like he normally would and it I think they might go with odic for for the for the first round but they oh I’d be very surprised especially when things aren’t going right I think you go back to someone and look that’s not to say he’s not an excellent Prospect but you
Go back to what you trust don’t you yeah you do but just we’ve probably haven’t taken into the the caveat of like unless they appeal and successfully successfully appeal Peter Casey will be missing for for the first round and uh we might get into it I we can get into
It now if we want but there was there was there was a couple of red cards at the weekend that I just thought were totally unwarranted now I have to say the Peter Casey one was warranted in in my opinion that was a nasty enough slap
That wasn’t a flick on Cody’s was a flick um Jake Morris’s was a flick a flick on someone’s hand that was unprotected um with the ball in very very close proximity so to me just on that one Michael didn’t Willie Connor did I’m not sure if he got booked but he
Definitely um let me just double check did he get booked yeah not entirely at a glance there I don’t think he got booked but he had a free given against him or else somebody got booked for tapping on his hand but again it wasn’t protected so like you
You do have I’ve had my hand broken through not protected my own hand and in fact that I’ve often had people say to me I don’t or hadn’t protected enough anyway you have to protect your hand so that was a very harsh one on Maris and I
Agree with you on codies the referee can make a case for both yellow cards but it just doesn’t feel like enough to send the player off ah no like the has to be a bit of discretion in it as well do you know what I mean like that’s like I
Didn’t actually see what he got the first yellow for and it wasn’t it wasn’t caught on camera he looked upset by it but like that was like Dean Hannon didn’t like make any meal of it or anything like that it was just a kind of
A play on there H I think there has to be a bit of discretion there particularly when the lad to me and I know you say you might say well you can’t treat lights differently if they’re on the yellow but to me you kind
Of have to you give him a tick and you say listen one more foul and you’re You’re gone here but that’s not players coming up then you know if they’re about to get a yellow card pointing hey down the field you didn’t give that lot of card so
Okay the solution is to not give a yellow for that at all that’s that’s the solution because to me that’s not that’s not a yellow card and I remember saying to you before I was in quite ago on another show remember a fella put his hand up like that like that basically to
Catch a ball and the ball was actually in his hand this is under 16 hard years ago and I pulled full force on the back of your man’s hand and the ball actually went about 40 yards down the pitch no joke and I’d say I could have broken
Every knuckle in your man’s hand and I remember thinking just fair play ref I pulled exactly where the ball was he didn’t protect his hand there was no free and like to me if you Des you deserve a tap in your hand if you put your hand up unprotected you’re not
Going to try and break someone’s hand but I wouldn’t have been punishing Jake Morris in that instance no way no and yeah I suppose look Peter Casey can’t have too many complaints generally a flick like that isn’t going to cause too much damage but if you’re just letting away all sorts of flicks
You know ultimately you know you’re going to end up with a lot of people with broken hands so yeah that has to be knocked out the flip side is was he been wound up by Petty Degan I thought was actually G TJ Reed making a bit of a
Joke about it in the postmatch interview saying he got a little tap got a small bit of blood there so I enjoyed that Peter casy once he realized he was caught as well try tried to make out like he was after been badly hurt and he definitely wasn’t yeah and did you
Notice in the first half was it was it maybe K O’Neal who went down like there’s this new thing now that if you take off your helmet you have to go off the field to play go to the Midfield uh line and then you’re going to get
Brought back by the referee did you notice that he was taking his helmet off and the physio told him to put it back on or the doctor yeah and Willow Don who wanted to take off his body warmer and had to take off all the other paraphernalia and ended up having to go
To the sideline as well so I think Lads are I think that’s fair enough like it it’ll cut out some of the messing well it will cut that’s a bit annoying now because he wasn’t trying to waste time or do at these just trying to you know when you’re overheated you’re cold St
Match realistically in a warmup you’re going to get so warm that you need to take it off anyway like everyone knows that like come on look it’s your own fault if you didn’t take it off when I said the part of it was am I writing saying that that rule was only been
Enforced from last weekend onwards you won’t have Lads doing it from you won’t have Lads Z from now on any it’s like anything if you risk been off the field for a couple of seconds right that you just you just won’t do and he’ll grin he’ll grin and bear his
His Under Armour till halftime or whatever or he won’t wear one next time at all but Lads are going to be ultra careful about taking the helmets off now which I suppose is why the ru was brought in in the first place and obviously you were or and Ken on from
Pillar To Post what impressed you most about your boys do you know what I wasn’t like I wasn’t blown away or anything that was the St trying to play it down now come on I know they your teaming all I wasn’t no I was far from it was a good Kil
Kenny performance I thought like I I don’t was ke Lynch wearing Shin gar as well which I thought was really interesting no he’s he was wearing those calf socks from what I can see do you remember Luke connley theot had problem and I think he was wearing those as well
And it feeds into the would you want to call it a narrative or a suggestion or a feeling that he’s just not moving right and I don’t know is it all the injuries and all that maybe he’ll come back you know we think he’s unbelievable but like he’s obviously not moving perfectly at
The moment yeah and he had the old kind of the old O’Neal socks pulled up like they were a classic like you do well find them in a shop nowadays because they’re all ankle socks now but uh he was totally nullified by by Jordan Malay and that’s like Jordan Malay hadn’t
Played a league game since I think he he break his hand the Tuesday night after the Wexford game in the open he was he was brilliant now but like I wouldn’t be fooled I wouldn’t be fooled by and I don’t think uh I don’t think Derek Ling
Will be either like at the end of the day they had a fair bit of inexperience on the pitch like they still had a really inexperienced Midfield in K Kenny and Jordan Malay have fought very hard but I don’t think he’d be under any Illusions to think that he’s going to
Necessarily get away with that Midfield in all the games for the rest of the year but um before the game that keing Kenny and Jordan Malloy would would have the edge on Willow Dono and Keen Lynch now to be fair Dono was was a bit better especially in the first half you
Wouldn’t have believed it no I wouldn’t have believed it I would have been very very surprised to be honest with you I would have been very very surprised and it was so unusual to see K Kenny’s response to that one two was they actually got 22 I think off the next
Four possessions um and sometimes and I’ve said it to you before sometimes the ball does the ball doesn’t need to be perfect inside the whole time like on and Cody’s goal the ball was just lamped down actually on top of him but he was one but he was one-onone so you’re
You’re still giv you know a 50-50 chance the ball in for um even Luke Hogan’s reaction from Quaid’s save that’s like that’s unusual it was a li player next to the ball I think just from a Kenny point of view was probably just the Endeavor and how they kind of clogged up
Around the middle um and how they were the ones that actually um had Lads given good ball in from the outside and like there was a couple of times I remember even seeing Gro hegerty was kind of throwing his arms up in the air trying
To get close to a fellow but he was five yards off the striker putting the ball in putting a lovely ball in which is just very very strange because like and even like Tom Maris was very very quiet by his standards and we didn’t see him
Up and down the wing like we normally would um Shane Murphy is mentioned there by Richard Hogan as well Shane Murphy Shane Murphy slipped in corner back the other day but they knew that he’d be like he was marking Adam English who was like a traveling so it actually suited
Perfectly and he caught a puck out at one stage over English and it kind of really set a tone yeah it did and he’s he’s probably been one of their players of league as well and like at the minute like pres presumingly performed fairly well in the league final um he’s a great
Chance of starting probably for Championship as well I’m very very impressed with him just going down to a couple of notes here um like I couldn’t believe how how often Kenny opened them up and even uh I think you tweeted about this even Tj going for the goal there
Are times where I think you do go for the Detroit um and I know I know it was saved now they were liick were blessed that that that ball was saved Nikki K had kind of half stopped it and it like it hit off bar Nash’s leg hit Costo on
The way to hitting Nash it could have maybe it was Costo but Nash was blessed like and even when the ball dropped to Nash it was like two or three times to get into his hand it was just really really strange but uh I think that was
The right move by TJ it was a bit of a sign of intent um that they they had goals in their mind and they could have had five realistically um and the fact that they you know they were expecting that third quarter Onslaught from Li ow
And Cody gets sent off and kind of thinking oh it’s maybe it’s building now and limr will come and to be fair limr never really looked like winning even though limr were the ones that were scoring from playing that third quarter and Kenny were relying on freeze they
Always kept them at arms length um I don’t think they’ll be deluded by the win and margin or anything like that I think you have to take it with a bit of caveat of like this is probably the worst Li performance we’ve seen in a
Long time it was far from a vintage K Kenny performance but it was an important win um against a team that’s beaten them by what 11 nine and two points in the last three times they’ve met in two all Ireland finals and a league final so it can definitely be no
Harm for a lot of those young Fells in particular to get one up on them yeah and you know I’ve made the point several times over the last four and a half years that you don’t need to collapse when you go down to 14 men and obviously
You know at times maybe it was a little hint towards Kenny they did not collapse with 14 men here they didn’t have to collapse in the 2019 all Ireland with 14 men so that was to hugely to their credit that they kept going even though
They lost the guy that I would say is their leading man in the forward line and people say oh 14 is the only place for TJ and to some degree it is but to me it seems like he moves in and out depending on how he’s feeling during the
Game he’s 36 he’s not going to do a 100 you know kind of massive Sprints over the course of the game so he’s managing his own energy well from what I can see he’s playing really well and he was taken off after an hourish or whatever
But on Cody is the main man on the side now the constant threat the outlet and like to me now he’s he’s just at the absolute top of his game but Kenny could have had 10 goals couple of the chances were half chances we look at the ones
That limr had and the the goal that Aaron Galan got and was finished really really nicely and the ball was popped onto him I can’t remember who popped it onto him but actually it initially came because Barry Nash M hit a free from his own backline and I was just yet another
Thing I was like what’s happening here and this is after four minutes it just seemed strange um but anyway look that was their one real goal chance and there was another half chance when Dono oik was blocked by Hugh Lawler but even that he was totally surrounded by men so it
Wasn’t a full goal chance so it was like 10 goal chances to to one really and again a couple of the Kenny ones were only half chances but even remember like some of Nikki Quaid’s Puck outs in the first half the one that Jordan Malik caught and pumped it back into the area
Or maybe someone got a point off it it was just like everything that glimmer normally do well all the sort system stuff you know where everybody knows position where they’re shuffling over and back pressing as a unit working so hard it was like keni flipped the script
On them and one of the most impressive things for me from keni never mind the goal scoring chances they created was the discipline in their tackling now okay fine it wasn’t Limer at 100% but the way they got bodies around the man and didn’t just go in and overdo it and
Give away a silly freeze with that you know lazy tug or whatever they got in close they got arms and legs everywhere and they just frustrated the life out of limr and it’s limr will never play this bad again you would imagine or are the miles on the clock adding up I don’t
Think they are just yet but there’s a template laid down by keni in this game a bit of a one yeah and we probably talked about um maybe Sean Lan last week you know maybe an in a couple of Limerick Lads I would definitely say Keen Kenny was was an iron Willow don’t
Who and there was a couple of them they had them they had them a bit art like they had them off game you know you’ve been in the situation I’m sure where just an incident or a fella just does get under your skin um it doesn’t happen
The next time you play him because you’re kind of ready but there was just instances in the game where you could just see that it was kind of uncharacteristic even of Odon who he was just annoyed he was be he was being annoyed can he Chop on his head at one
Stage and give away a free that that’s true now he he did all right but it was but it was other bits and pieces but he stuck in there was like a sid at one stage he was nudging in and like you know he’s tiny by compar
Compared with Willow Dono but fair play to him he didn’t back down no he threw himself around I would say because like there was several pictures of him going around like I don’t know who probably has uh four to five inches in height and probably 10 or 15 kilos on him i’ say
But he was he was getting he was getting stuck in and it just maybe it just kind of just goes to show you if you’re if you go out with that kind of wiry attitude almost that you are able to maybe mix it with some bigger lad will
That be the case if they meet again I I had to guess and maybe say it it wouldn’t be but that was kind of a sign of that keni were kind of getting stuck in and making it very very awkward for for liick it’s also I think it’s
Important for Kenny to I know I know it was only a league game and but to beat them in Parky que and beat them in a big pitch this wasn’t a provincial ground this was you know the last couple of times the last three times they’ve met
They were beaten twice in in cow Park once in Parky Que in the league final last year I think that helps as well it kind of takes an excuse off the table shall we say for limi or they better suited to whatever type of a ground or
Whatever but from a Kenny point of view I think they’ll take a lot off a lot from it they they also played the last 50 minutes without TJ which is important the fact that they were able to hold the whole thing together without him now did
Limr I’m not saying did limr really want to win the game but would Aaron Galan ton Hannon garod hegerty and there’s one one more I’m forgetting would they have all ke Lynch like would they have all they would have all remained on the field if Li were playing though maybe
Maybe Championship would would they withdraw them yeah but would surely there’s enough kind of this is going into another another conversation here you you think maybe there’s enough credit in the bank that they would potentially turn it around or have a couple of big plays toward the end but
Kylie actually referenced that after he said you know I actually going to read out read it out here he said about a p a pass he said can he give them a pass um we sat and chatted there for the last 1550 minutes there’s no excuse there’s
Just no excuse had we trained today I would have expected to get three times more out them it’s just not good enough it’s not acceptable we know that they know that H they put their hand up to acknowledge that it’s just disappointed from Mar perspective we have four weeks
Now to go on P to our shoulders to wheel and by Jesus we have a lot of improving to do I just want to get to the part where he talks about the pass he said um if we were fatigued you’d see it in training and I’ve seen the opposite in
Training or for what whatever reason today I don’t know it just wasn’t there um now I’d have to say how many times in seven or eight seasons has it not been there very rarely so do they get a pass on this one it’s not the way we operate
We don’t give each other passes you can’t give yourself a pass at this level of sport if you give yourself a pass you’re expecting to get another one the next day we know there won’t be another pass the next day it’s as simple as that
So like even he is not kind of giving them a pass and even the language he was using about being embar like been an embarrassing performance he didn’t he didn’t kind of sugar CAU it really and he didn’t like like what Li shidi did in noran park when the Kil Kenny hockey tip
In 09 he didn’t take the blame himself either he kind of laid it back at the Players somewhat um and like I don’t know 12 months ago after the league fight against Kenny limi were unbeatable and no one was gonna beat them no one was gonna get with an ass has roared him
12 months later not saying they been written off or anything like that but there’s a there’s a Tiny Seed of doubt and now Kylie has a stick to beat with um a team that’s gone for six in a row and five six in a row monster and five
In a row on irelands to me it’s set up absolutely perfect for them to get a massive reaction over the coming months and they way in Portugal I think this week on a holiday not a on a team not a team holder sorry A Team a training camp
Not a bad place to go to reset the mind and reset the focus I’d say as well yeah and um yeah look we’d still imagine that they’re going to be the ones climbing the steps of the Hogan later in the year I mean it it’s it’d be very quick to
Write them off but after starting the game so well one two to nothing ahead to lose the remainder of the game by 13 points that will definitely make an impact on them we see lots of comments about James owens’s referee in performance sad or the Holmes also puts
In here anything to be said about the grow hegerty tax limmerick are paying every game a man swings off his neck and the free gets given against Gro pathetic referee and that was the incident where Richie Reid came close for a tackle for my money James Owens got this absolutely
100 million percent I’m going to go there correct correct because yes Reed came in close then there was a little bit of contact as there is in all tackles in GA and for my money Gro hegerty put out his leg and threw Reed over his leg and a something we’re
Seeing in gay football all the time Shane McAn did it several times against Kerry earlier in the League this year once the referee bought it another time he didn’t and give a free against him and I’m glad that uh that James Owens saw this because it was a free for Kenny
Every day the week yeah I looked I it’s kind of hard enough to see it in real time but you look back at it a couple of times kind like at the end of the day obvious number one yeah to to you obviously because you’re some sort of Hing Genie
Um uh but like number one whatever about the trip he pegs them to the ground as well you can’t throw someone away or whatever no matter what type of contact you’re getting um and yeah when you look back at it he puts his leg out almost to to yeah basically like it’s like
Something you do in a schoolyard when you were 12 or 13 isn’t it to try and get a lad onto the ground or something like that or embarrass someone but that’s it it looks um it’s definitely something I’d say that’s been looked at by the referees and James Owens was in
No doubt about now some of the other frees though that were given um and they were kind of given to Kil Kenny at kind of times when they were struggling to get scores from play were I would say of the soft variety uh to say to say at
Least but um you know I would I would definitely agree with you and hegerty one it was it was Ken free every day of the week um I see a comment here from a 180 is the absence of Caroline c a factor I can’t imagine that it is it’s I
I don’t like I don’t think um I don’t think we can really judge that until the end of the championship how many points is she good for in a game well she doesn’t any she doesn’t poke any Over the Bar anyway obviously i’ been fous there but I don’t think
That a team can all of a sudden in the space for a couple of months just you know come up with a performance like that and that’s what we’re going to see going forward let’s let’s be clear about it it was a big non-performance for them
Some of their players look stuck to the ground like is that an snc thing or are we going to say that’s some sort of psychological thing they’re missing five lads who probably will start also so I just think it’s a case of let’s not get
Carried away no I wouldn’t um and I know from uh from Aden burner Brogan’s book that like they got to a point with their psychology where Kevin McManaman essentially took it on um they had a player it was player Le um because they obviously felt they were in a pretty
Good place um upstairs I’d imagine limi are in a fairly good place as well um I’m sure potentially that if needs be that she’s been tapped into um you know for onet to ons and stuff like that so I wouldn’t be reading that much into that
To be honest with you sat Holmes says shanee if someone puts their arms around your neck what would you do but I think he got close and it was only when he’s been tugged around that he was holding on to hegerty then and maybe grabbed him
Around the neck if he feel that he grabbed him there I’m not entirely sure he did but to me it’s clear and like heger is not the only ever player to do it and he had a good game I mean relative to to his teammates and he’s
Been in Hur year form so look we talk about him very positively so much but nah for me all day it’s a free against him and that needs to be Stamped Out straight away just forwards just well forwards or backs just to come up against the tackler and just throw them
Over their leg no don’t like it yeah no and I think it’s um it’s something that he’s going to have to be very aware of now because that was obviously um very well highlighted on Saturday and it’s something he won’t get away with um from now on so I’d imagine
It’s something he’s gonna he’s gonna have to cut out he’s gonna have to find a different way whether it’s turn backwards and give a pass backwards or find a different way to get around his man than that yeah just wondering is at us that we haven’t covered in this
Particular match um just like and I don’t know if there’s any like reason to this now but like even you know how uh publicized the Kyle Hayes case was during the week does that have a bit of a tax taxing effect maybe a couple a
Couple of days later I’m I’m not I’m not sure really but I’m sure that’s that’s something they were all looking at very very closely and obviously it’s something they were emotionally invested in as well um and it’s something that John Kylie had and Dean Hannah would
Have had to deal with at the the monster launch last week and it was the first question that tg4 asked John KY last Saturday as well so maybe that’s kind of played into it as well but um a just a couple of notes I think it was important
For K Kenny to stop the rot against limr because there had been a rot basically since that 2019 semi-final but also if you look at how h limr under John Kylie have dealt with defeats and what the reaction has been to defeats beaten by Kil Kenny in 2019 don’t lose another
Championship game till um a meaningful championship game shall we say till the play clear last year did they react to that feet defeat they went on and won um five in a row on Monster and four all Ireland so like I think I don’t think it’s necessarily a bad thing for limr to
Be kind of reset now at this stage okay okay uh K O’Neil is to me I don’t see I don’t see how they’re going to leave him out of the team but the place where he get into the team assuming Kyle haes is back and obviously they’re going to
Trust in Hannah and and burns to get their usual form back the place where there’s probably a position is in the full forward line but that’s probably the one area where I wouldn’t play him anywhere like I’d play him anywhere between five and 12 I’m not sure I’d
Play him as someone who’s you know really far up the field but maybe they’d even give him the Peter Casey role yeah that that would have been the role I would have kind of taught um he’s probably hurt your most from probably 80 yards or so that’s he’s just such that
He’s such a kind of lazy strike and is able to put the ball over from distance that would probably be where I’d be looking at be interesting to see if the appeal that the Peter Casey read to to me now that was pretty clear cut um and
You can say I I just think it’s gas like I I thought Patty Dean barely touched him now just before that to be honest with I know they’re having there was a small bit of verb between the two of them I thought he he barely touched them
And I thought Casey swung back and he would have heard the contact he made in his hand and it was obviously blood coming out of Dean’s hand which made it probably look worse when James uh not look worse it made it look bad as it was
When James Owens went into to kind of uh officiate on it but uh to me like yeah he he’s going to be missing the first day against CL I don’t see how else he wouldn’t be okay we’ll keep the comments in let us know what you think there’s so
Many comments coming in today which is great to see we always like to to get your opinions we definitely don’t know at all uh leash beat down in the 2A semi-final 124 to 13 points so this was very comfortable for a finish um they’ll play Carlo in the final now and it means
Division 1B for leash next year Aaron duny scored seven points and whatever a bit of a Revis that down were producing in the second half a goal from Patty parcel put that to bed so that will actually be a nice little tasty final Le Carlo coming up in the division 2 a yeah
And Carlo get home Advantage um by virtue a finishing top of the table which is which is great I all think there should there should be a reward for finishing top of the table and obviously Lee have gotten another game under their belts um I I wouldn’t I know
This was comprehensive and it was you know 14-point win or whatever but down have actually down have been flying throughout the league got some big big results um they’re obviously beaten in a 2A final a couple of years ago by West me um but like I think Ro Ron and Shan I
Think is I think John Kylie is the only Intercounty manager um would say in service longer than him at the minute and he has turned things upside down um in in down like they’re like they’re very consistent force and they’ll be hoping to leave a mark at McDon a cup
Level this year um and from a leash point of view they’re obviously going to be in onea next year they’re going to be part of that seven teams and that’s very very big for them and they’re coming into that Macdona in um fairly rude Health as well yeah you you just
Mentioned there you know like I’m thinking energy and turning things around and all this kind of stuff Simon Harris’s quote over the weekend the new leader of course fin Gail and he was talking about you think this party you know hasn’t shown energy well you ain’t
Seen nothing yet and then he was just like oh no what have I just said it just came out the wrong way I think it was one of it’s one of the funniest quotes I’ve seen in a long long time but uh that’s that’s what to do about nothing
Because we’re here to talk about g at the division 2B semi-final der already waiting in the final but terrone got five goals and beat Donny G in letter Kenny that was 59 to 314 they have a surprise there Shan on out that would dny G would have been expected to come
True in that now that’s that’s a bit of a surprise and they’ll be disappointed because they’ve been they’ve been close to getting up to 2A before um and this I I think D go this is a real missed opportunity now I have to say yeah okay
Okay and then the next result you might read out there yeah it finished SL got 22 points H Cavin won 14 so again Cav only came up out at 3B last year and although they’re knocked out now um still making making really really good strides and they’re actually had a
Halftime with uh with Nikki Kenny uh on Farm but um jro Kelly Lynch by all accounts was was key for sgo and of course this year there’s five o Kelly Lynch brothers involved in slgo which is is something else outside of the the four dailies that are playing with the
The Clair kogi team including triplets um that and I think there’s a par I could to say a pair of triplets the triplets playing with the Waterford ladies footballers as well um a a fair achievement for for any family to have three four or five involved with their
County yeah like Cav are going very well for it like they’re really upwardly mobile and they they gave this performance they weree against SLO at halftime and they didn’t have kis Maher didn’t have my old buddy Brian for sh brezer and you know the two shanan that
I would know from Kula as well like I don’t think colum shanon was there at all and I think only Killian came on later on and again going back to the point we made last week they didn’t have a team for six years up till 2017 or 18
What a comeback this is or or what progression this is then also division 3B Longford 112 warshire 116 so Kevin McCaron he scored seven points there that was important Longford were without the injur David Buckley and Charles Flynn uh Patty Lam was unavailable and ke and Cox was suspended so they were
Down an awful lot of players there um let’s see crack of the ash says om brand fears for tip last week realized who’s their six or half back line their Midfield Joseph Nash says leash need to be back up playing the big teams they do
Indeed do you know as we go into the football here there’s a point I wanted to make to you about you know making the league that bit sexier and normally I don’t like talking about these topics because I think they’re more winter F but like like we can’t go from year to
Year talking about who wants to be in a league final and who doesn’t be we just need everyone to want to be in a league final and make these competitions meaningful and we’re wondering can we believe what we saw from from the teams in the semi-final this weekend can we
Believe what we saw in the football league o over the weekend obviously look we we’ll quickly agree that the preseason competitions have to go but is there a case now to be made that because there’s so much so many football games and their season probably lasts a bit longer and there’s
More counties that are that really focused on gaic football and the club scene should we start the football GIC Football League maybe three weeks before we start the hland league and let it finish like Okay so let’s say we play the football league it finishes and then
There’s three weeks or four weeks until the football championship starts so you’ve staggered the start of the hland league maybe what would be week four so you’ve three rounds of football gone then you play to hurin and allow that to finish and kind of bridge that three-week gap between the football
League ending and the football championship chip stting so you’ve still got da front and center right and then okay the hurin once the league final is played there’s an they won’t start the championship for at least another three weeks and but the ga will still be front and center because the football
Championship will start and then you come back and the three weeks later and the hland starts again so you’ve just got you’ve got no sort of blank period at all the football teams can concentrate on the league not that they’ll get at least three weeks off the
Hurand teams then the exact same and we won’t have these frustrating situations of not knowing if team is interested in the competition or not yeah and that’s all to do with proximity isn’t it so if you take if you take that out the proximity of a league final or League
Semi-final to the championship um listen it’s it’s hard to find more weeks in the calendar but there’s definitely um there’s definitely a lot a lot to be said about getting rid of the preseason competitions the only thing I will say and I had a good chat with uh with Mike
Fty about this yesterday up in clonus uh I like look at the appetite there is is for people to attend these preseason games right so I think and there probably a fair um Fair bit of fact in this provincial councils would there’ be a decent bit of
Kind of uh money into the coffers as a result of preseason competitions and I know some of it goes to the hardship fund that the ga have as well for players that maybe out pocket through injuries and stuff like that but even streaming services that there’s a lot of
Finance involved even in those was opening four or five weeks of preseason competitions because there’s a massive appetite there for um so it could be difficult to get them to relinquish that and that’s just the facts of it because how difficult is it to get provincial councils to relinquish the you know the
Provinces the championship provinces very very difficult because it’s you know that’s their baby almost that would be something that would definitely be a bridge that would have to be crossed but there’s absolutely no reason why starting the football area why the the the clamor for preseason competition
Wouldn’t be the clamor for the first two or three rounds of the league absolutely no reason whatsoever and if you leave like Dublin and Derry uh are both going to be out this Sunday and like it’s just it is just it’s it’s getting too close for them now to uh to their
Championships and they are almost been punished why should you punish a high achiever you should never punish a high achiever or someone that gets that wants to get to a final and wants to win trophies they should never be punished and I’m not say they are but Mayo
Definitely were last year and they were dumped out ionic a week later um after playing a league F and going up to Dublin and all the HOA around that and then seven days later Ross Comon dumped them out that just should to me should never be the scenario so the only way to
Buy weeks back is C preseason competitions but as I said I do think that you’d be met with a small bit of resistance not for me or you or a lot of players something like that but I think you will be met with some resistance by provincial councils the bean counters
But then again like if you look at one of the preseason competitions this year the final and maybe even a couple of games weren’t playing the weather been that’s true yeah that’s true monster yeah some of the division one results from the weekend Derry beat Ross Comon
219 to n and like Dave burk’s team they they’ cut the deficit to 18 to7 early in the second half and they lost the remainder of the game 111 to 112 their goal came from a mistake you saw the the ball bounce over the keeper and then the
Smith knocked it into the net so just not like I think Davy Burke said it was a good 50 minutes from his team but they peted out after that but he is just trying to write the ship a little bit because they’ve had a Ry run they have
Had a Ry run and um he was trying to come up with positives um like when they’re beaten by 13 points uh it’s hard enough to find the positives um they were competitive for a good while he also came out uh and said it was a bit
Of a Witch Hunt against uh Carl henan over that stamp I don’t know geez it looked it looked pretty clear cut to me now to be honest with you and I think he’s it’s a one- match ban that that that he’s gotten so like it it could
Have been to me it could have been a good bit worse you understand him defending his player though like yeah it’s a red card and there’s no there’s no debate but you can understand that he has to develop or you know defend his play yeah exactly yeah but it just I
Don’t know I it’s kind of defending the indefensive as well you can’t you can’t defend defend it too much like because I don’t think there’s much to defend but isn’t this what always happens in sport whether you’re talking about klopp or Guardiola or whatever it’s just what
Teams do because they you want feel that the players have your back and you want to feel as a player the manager has my back yeah true enough yeah listen if I was in that scenar be 100% backing the players as long as they 100% back me I
Will 100% go go to the well with them like an absolutely backed them to the hilt yeah okay well some of the other results then Dublin 518 terrone 12 21 Point defeat and I know you can say when terone won the all Ireland they conceded was six goals against Kerry in a late
Round lead game and it looked awful but um Dublin looking to win a first League under Desi farell and their ler campaign starts on April 14 but let’s be honest the league final is going to be more difficult for them dur to take off cono Khan bran Fenton Kier Kenny all well
Before fulltime do you think like do you read too much into this um the only thing you read into is doubling are playing as well as they have at any stage you’d say in the last God are they playing as well as they’ played in any stage in the last
Decade like when you take the first probably two League games out of it and they’re playing what’s brilliant football to watch in the eyes it’s a m it’s a matter of whether they’re able to sustain it now um interesting Desy far said that none of the none of the nine
Uh timeout Ireland winners will be featuring in the final James McCarty has a couple of knocks uh m mck s just training away and I believe um Step Clon played a league game and goal for parnells yesterday division two um so they’ll they’ll all be back as well but
Like I remember been in conet park when kir turned them over in division one and that kind of led to the relegation and there was a lot of new faces that were playing that day that you kind of thinking oh will these boys be able to swim with the sharks and they’ve
Persisted with them and now you have um you have Lads that are driving um at the highest level and maybe it’s just a matter of sinking a couple of times and been exposed to it and eventually like they just like the likes of ke Murphy
And many many more in the new face like that sha bugler even has kind of taking his football his game to another level as well so they’re in a really good spot um and they’re in a far better spot to when McCarthy retires or when Clon retires or when fit Simon fit Simons
Retires they look like they’d be in a far better spot that maybe we thought there would be yeah and colum Basel scored two3 Len Odell one2 carry beat goway and for long spells it looked like it was routine enough but a late goal from Tom Khan made it a little bit of a
Squeaky bumb time I talk klian span looked really um nippy in this game he scored Four Points one was a free sha OA scored four and then um is it Adam Heinrich is the name of the player and you can’t help he scored a point you
Can’t help but think was that point to Hinrich Manu Arman is it not Arman sorry yeah like Arman tamarian I got sent a message principal skinners W know who Arman tameran is yeah no um Principal Skinner um from uh from The Simpsons of course someone sent
Me that last night yeah the good old Hinrich yeah mad isn’t it yeah yeah yeah um so go away they’re just down so many players and it’s not like poric Joyce was looking for excuses afterwards but they like if they’re going to have a big year they need comr Walsh Kelly back
They need them all there but um did he sounded quite downbeat even about when the timelines of when those guys be back didn’t he which is um which is very very worrying because and the thing and I think you said this to you before about comr as well Comer’s best seasons are
Uninterrupted Seasons where he’s just played and played and played and he plays himself into a level of form like 2022 um he was at a level he was near playing the whole year last year I think he was interrupted during the league wasney um and even a couple years before
That he was and it’s going to be the same this year so even if they do get back and it’s all guaranteed that they’re going to be back um they’re going to be under a bit of pressure and they’re going to have to play themselves into Farm in big games and that that’s
Just very very difficult thing to do what did you make of this towards the very end of the game game when uh Paul Conroy and Adrian Blan got into it the Jersey been absolutely ripped off him Paul Conroy doesn’t look that too that fuss at all he isn’t really reacting to
It so much do you see that as a a red carard defense yellow card offense or an offense against fashion it’s like what Hulk Hogan used to do back in the back in the days and he come in just G like this um but like as as someone mentioned to me before for
Some of those bigger counties and wealthier counties it’s probably Grand to just ring on knels and get replacement um for some counties that are on the breadline of small but it might it mightn’t be that simple and I know in clubs you’ve seen I’ve seen where jerseys have been ripped or
Whatever and uh you’re nearly sewing them back together or somebody is wearing um a Jersey from a different set or something like that I I definitely think they’re gonna have to bring it in because it’s like Lads Lads know that you know if hands go above shoulders
Here you know it could easily be a striker movement it could be given a red card so it’s almost like he just grabbed the Jersey now you can grab the arar Retro as hard as he want don’t want Rip but some some some of the other ones not
So sure so it’s um it’s probably something that they’re gonna have to bring in some sort of a rule around it because it’s like the default now how many times have you seen David Clifford involved and his jersey ripped as well Lads just grab him they don’t go around
The head or around the neck because they know they’ll be penalized for it or they’re likely to be so some sort of uh some sort of rule or something’s going to have to brought in there right it yeah and you were asking Clon us to see
Mayo beat manahan 213 to 113 mat Ran’s goal lat on turned it around like manahan had sort of bucked the the trend in form that they’ve had recently yeah I I thought mon were good against terone now I have to say as well um and they
Were well in that at the end and they’re missing a hell of a lot of lads and vny Corey just Relentless was the word he used for their injury list and it grew yesterday unfortunately because mial banigan who was probably their best player he went off just after setting up
A goal he’s very good as me he’s he’s a brilliant player he kicked a lovely couple of scores yesterday he was treading some balls through as well so they ended up actually finishing with 13 players but Andrew Woods got straight red in the 23rd minute for what looked
Like a strike in action um and he’ll missed the preliminary round against Cav as a result of that Desy Ward pulled up with a hamstring injury kilan LEL had an ey injury which I don’t think is serious and as said mial banigan went off they who else are they missing um Conor
Mcmanis was missing yesterday but he’d be back fit Jack McCarron was tight he was missing his as well um did you bring up Rory beggan being in the NFL again I I didn’t because it seems to be brought up it seems to be brought up every week
But like it looks like by all accounts that they’re going to be without him without him for the foreseeable future by looks at him because he’s been signed up um to an agent ask me I don’t think it’s the high-profile kicking agent that that Charlie Smith was signed up to but
He’s been signed up like it it looks for all the world like there’s going to be some contracts shwn out from from everything you’re kind of seeing and hearing and how impressive they they’ve been as well um but from a monan point of view I still think monan will will tip away come
Summertime um Carlo Connell is back is got another full game under his belt yesterday Conor McCarthy very quiet yesterday but um I think it was there was nothing to play for really really in the game it was just kind of a matter of getting through it they got Shawn Jones
Back onto the pitch um but they have a fair out injury list that they’re GNA have to get over see no handland hasn’t played much since that Dublin game um and the flip like they were actually very very good control the game despite been down to 14 men and we probably the
Better team overall uh I think mat Ruan was the only one to kick a point from player from Mayo up until like the 62nd minute or something like that they br k oer f ball and they helped to to turn the tie this moment but eventually monan
Just got overran as a result of um when balagan went off monan used their six Subs so they only 13 on the pitch at the end and obviously like two people um as regards numerical uh disadvantage is going to eventually tell and it did at the end may all were far from impressive
Now I have to say um wasn’t uh wasn’t particularly good on the ey even like I thought their full back line was opened up a couple of times David Garland who wouldn’t be a particularly big player for man he came in just before halftime and he won two high balls should have
Had a penalty into 60 Minute as well penalty and a black card that would have even things up Rory Brion definitely looked to foul him inside the area and kind of looked like he’d pulled him down penalty wasn’t given um and it was was just a free um May scored the last one
To to to win the game with par goora kicking the last point but they weren’t yeah I definitely wasn’t Blown Away by them um Kevin ma said they were close to their top top level but I don’t think they were within a million miles it to
Be honest you one thing that was I’ve note H yesterday Ed O made his 185th competitive appearance for mayo and like you know sheno when you’re up in cow Park you’re on level seven you’re looking down everyone kind of looks it’s like the F tting everybody’s far away
Like you know what I mean but clonus here much closer to him like he is so big like he’s huge and to cover the ground that he covers and to have played the amount of games nearly consecutively that he has since I think his day was 2009 is is outstanding really I know
He’s I know he’s much my line but he’s been some service to M yeah I think n Morgan might have made his 175th appearance for tone over the weekend and Ben Brazen did the same I think didn’t he didn’t he come Wexford M cap player I think could have been 175 he overtook
Bri Malone I think at the weekend as well yeah something like that I just bring back up the ga League tables here really good service on X um so Derry and Dublin they finished first and second they meet in that League final carry on 10 points just missing out behind Dublin
Mayo and terrone eight points and six go away five I’d say given all their injury issues they won’t be overly concerned about that and Ross com and manahan will drop down and for manahan at six defeats on a row after beating Dublin the first day out if you were told that after one
Game that you’d see them there you’d be shocked and division two Donny go and ARA they’re going to be in a league final they’re both well actually Donny G are undefeated um Arad they lost H oh actually sorry Drew Drew a couple of game so both of those teams are
Undefeated uh formana and cair they’re dropping out the division but um just in terms of the results we just go through them there Cav 113 formana 214 cork 216 armad 216 and it was that late Steven Sherlock score that you know is Up For Debate kildair 12 points so kir continue
Their Rock and run loud 112 and then Donny G 118 me 110 so as I said Donny G are on beating throughout the whole thing but you just wonder given that it was a dead robber look we’ll bring up the table here again there were no there
Was no doubt that they weren’t going to get through to the final they’re picking up injuries to Petty mck Bey Ryan McHugh were not far off the championship I mean like how many of your front line players I know you want to keep form and all that kind of stuff
But Lads like that it’s easy to be wise after the event but you feel like gz need to wrap Lads up and you know wrap them up and cut them W yeah it is a real kind of juggling act isn’t it and Vinnie Cory was saying the same yesterday like
You need he needed to get some minutes into Shawn Jones he pulled him after about 48 minutes um but like he actually said that because it was a a dead rubber basically he would have loved if they were allowed to use 10 10 subs or something like that maybe to so you’re
Not push Lads that extra maybe five minutes when they’re going into that kind of Red Zone at the end of a game where you’re likely to pick up a oock that you can just bring in a fresh fresh pair of legs or whatever um the big
Takeaway for me from division two is um you know there was all the HOA about Mickey Hart leing loud and you look at you know loud loud stay up J Brenan has come in there and done what looks like a masterful job so far look at their plus
20 having lost um having lost four games like they were beating uh a point I think ARA the first day fair enough Dy go beat them by five um they were beaten H I forget who was against it was 39 to 213 in another game like they’ve been
Really really close they could easily be third or fourth um in that in that group but just with har and Gavin Dev and leaving you kind of maybe thinking oh maybe loud will kind of slip back down or whatever so it was crucial for them to hold on to to their division two
Status and it was a real um a real consistent campaign the whole way through so I again I definitely tip M cap to J Brenan there coming in like his debut year at Intercounty level um and it looks like they’ll give ler a good kind of a good kind of bash against this
Year but next year or a good bash again this year but next year it’s crucial that they’re in division two that they can keep growing and not sipping down to divisions yeah division three then we’re seeing down and West me heading for um the league final wio and limi they’re
Dropping down but just in terms of the results Anam 114 wilo 14 down 315 CLA 110 and obviously CLA will will still agonize over what happened against West me when they were probably very harshly done by offly 110 limr 12 points Sligo 114 West me 11 and then division four Carlo
117 um London 110 I’ll just bring up the table there Watford nine points leash 519 that’s a fairly comprehensive one uh Wexford 218 Longford 29 and of course um after that game you look at Wexford like that late penalty incident away to leam that probably cost them big time because
Lram beat tieri to guarantee that they’re going to be up there in the top two and heading for that League final Andy M was there saying I heard a lot of noise during the week about killing League finals they can kill them all they want for division one and two but
They won’t be killing them for divisions three and four do you agree with that point um yeah I like I think the importance of them for teams that are a bit off Broadway or counties are a bit off Broadway like it’ll be huge I I remember we did a live show for The
Independent in the CR Park Hotel the last time Le in division four uh division four final when Terry Highland was over them and there was a massive crowd up for it and it’s a big like how often do lean play in cow Park like it
Is it’s a big thing and playing a final and having the chance to win silver Air is a big thing for them so he probably has a point there while maybe you could say division the division one final or potentially division two final particularly with Jim mcguinness’s
Injuries it doesn’t maybe have as much importance for them I think it has massive importance particularly for for the teams uh in the division three and even more so in division four just funny you mentioned there Claire will feel very disappointed by that incident in
Mullen gar and as you said that kind of nearly decided who was going to be um in the top two or who’s going to be promoted in division three and similarly for Wexford like that far skill call in carrian Shannon you know a good few
Weeks ago has come back to to bite um Wexford in the ass unfortunately and Le them are the ones that are gone up and I I wasn’t aware of a Cho as well and I don’t know if if he’s only opted out in recent weeks or he’s been out for the
Whole league but ke burn not been involved with with lram and for them still to be promoted I believe R roor ripped it up yesterday and has been doing so for most of the league but for leum to be promoted without one of their best it’s you know it’s yet another FEA
In their cap yeah and by the way there’s a live show coming up in the dome in Turles before the hland championship this is presented by Sha Tracy’s G uh John Milan kieron KY Eddie Brennan Sheamus khin they’re all going to be there you’ll be able to scan the QR code
There or head to the head to our X account and you’ll find a link to where you can buy I hope there’s lot of tip folk and Turles folk showing up to defend your honor because it’s kind of it’s kind of set up perfectly um because like Tipper area coming in there’s a
Little bit there’ll be a little bit of John a little bit of needle um it’s all perfect you know a couple of weeks before the championship starts so I hope there’s plenty of tip if I say something the stage could be stored you just you just never know and I’ll have to defend
And protect you but um what about our go of the week we we actually um I don’t think we did one last week but anyway let’s do we um looking at the Kil Kenny game oh like I know to give TJ Reed man of the match on the Telly he was he was
Good he was good all right um I wouldn’t I wouldn’t I don’t know if he’s up in he’s goat in general but whether he’s goat the week I’m not so sure I’d probably give it to someone like like Jordan Malay I’d say just a fell dra in big responsibility pick up Kean Lynch
You can say maybe Keen Lynch wasn’t moving like he normally would be but um he took to it like a duck to water so yeah be Jord my life for me I thought he was he not only did he spoil Keen Lynch but he also had a big bearing at the
Other end of the pitch as well yeah even though and I said earlier he didn’t probably play a 70-minute performance I’d say David Fitzgerald he’d probably right be right up there and then colum gaskel scoring two3 that was pretty uh impressive yeah big time on a football front
Um from the game I was at any I probably would have G it to mial banigan even though he had to kind of Limp off at the end he was probably Mon’s best player Mi Al banigan or or Matty ran who kind of kept Mayo taking over when very few
Other Lads did and just on that as well like Mayo had nearly their starting attack plan yesterday maybe outside of Killian o Conor the Tommy conr Ed no um rhyo Don who all in around the goals at different times and they’re misfire at the minute um now this time last year
They were probably they were probably firing on all cylinders and then maybe didn’t deliver come chage of time so maybe they’re they’re playing the long game but they’re definitely not putting up as high of scores as they’ likely to be from play anyway definitely okay well
That’s pretty much it from the show a reminder once more that we’re brought to you by orar ret.com use the promo code rgame and you get 15% off by the way if you want audio podcast written columns uh two-minute tactics videos coaching Clinic stuff head to patreon.com that’s it Michael we’ll chat
To you again later in the week cheers Chanel On
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2 poor games. I dont think you can take much from either of them. The Clare/Tipp game was decided on frees. Clare too reliant on Davy Fitz.
Jake Morris was booked already and was lucky it wasn’t a red. He got 2 yellows. No injustice there.
Not really understanding this Limerick weren't interested excuse, if thats the case why play 10 out of the 15 who played in the final last year surely you'd rest them before starting the Munster Championship if you're not taking it seriously?. To me it looked like Kilkenny found a way to make Limerick play horrible constantly on them with tackles and swipes and finding advantages in the full forward line leaving Limerick in precarious one on ones at their own goal
If Tipp PLACE BALL WENT OVER THERE WOULD NOT BE MUCH INIT
Bonnar Maher should be nowhere near Tipps starting 15. He's yesterdays news. Dan McCormack great servant but best days behind him. Willie Connors is not a top class intercounty midfielder. Never was. Never will be.
I thought Eoin Brislane last week saying Cathal Barret could play centre back for Tipp was laughable. He's a corner back who has little discipline gives away so many frees and he is proposing him in such a pivtal position? Really silly talk.
Outside of Morris and Forde Tipp's forwards are very average.
Liam Cahill trying to give some encouragement to the Tipp fans with his post game spiel but really they will struggle to get out of Munster and are not good enough to win any silverware imo.
Could be a short summer and long winter for them.
Limerick supporter here. Kk beat us fair and square, by far the better team on the day. James Owens all over the place. Several time he gave us frees I hadn't a clue why. Just like Jesus summarised the ten commandments into two so also can all the rules of hurling be summarised into one. If the two are fully intent on going for the ball, then that's ok, let it go. If someone is not, then anyone who played the game will see it, it sticks out like a sore thumb, then blow, yellow card or whatever. Eoin Cody should have never been sent-off. In Lk V Tipp, think Ronan Maher gave Cian Lynch a fair hard clatter, hip to hip, fair, knocked Lynch and maybe even hurted him a bit. Even if he hurt him a lot and Lynch had to go off, it still wasn't a free. It's a physical game. Players are conditioned better than ever. It's turning into Olympic handball
Limerick too cocky going into the kk match, last thing u do going into play the cats is be too cocky.
Clare will b hard to beat in the final, they will hav to go in as favourites. Makes for a great game
This episode should have been called "the Munster hurling show- all other teams are irrelevant" 😳😳🤔🤔
You shouldn't move a team up the power rankings who don't play a game when others around them did, that's nonsense.
Like, the KK senior footballers haven't lost a league or championship game since God was a chap…put them in 2nd on the football one.
What a terrible podcast 2 boys talking pure rubbish off the ball podcast on hurling way better that tipp lad talking on this podcast is pure anti limerick
Limerick are to cocky hyped up team of all time the hand ball team
Would some one please shut Stapleton up.
Noted Señor No Punctuation.
All the teams have light training sessions before the games