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Post by kerryexile on Sept 11, 2019 10:32:17 GMT
i always saw him in the same light as a young fella turning up to U14 trials wearing white boots and a standout haircut, your attention it unconsciously drawn to him. You'd have such an aura built up in your head about him that by the time he gets the first ball it wouldn't matter what he'd do with it but you'd think it was fantastic! If he fell on his arse you'd think he did it well. Connelly is a presence but his best footballing days are behind him. He is the classic flawed genius according to some, yes he was a fine player in his day but I think that his day is now behind him. He was out of the set up for so long and then drops back in as the class clown/prodigal son. In my opinion he is being used as a distraction now, his impact on the drawn match was minimal - he was posturing on the side line for over 20 minutes. The fourth official was over and back to them to get him to put a vest on and asking if he was indeed going on as there were other lads in and out warming up all through that time. I was surprised that Jim Gavin entertained that carry on as it's most unlike him. Connolly is the best footballer I have seen play for Dublin and that includes all the Heffernan era. Sometimes an exceptional talent like that feeds on ego. The ego has to be managed but killing it may ruin the player. Connolly’s problem started when he put his hand on an official playing against Carlow a couple of years ago. It wasn’t his first indiscretion and Gavin was so furious that he kept him on the bench when the suspension expired. Connolly’s ego surfaced when he came out in a vest for the warm up for the AI final against Mayo. This went totally against Gavin’s philosophy that no player is different to the others and he couldn’t hide his rage. As a top class manager Gavin swallowed the bitter pill and brought on Connolly and many believe he saved Dublin that day. Dublin had so many good players at the time that they could let Connolly faded from the scene – until this year. Gavin’s position is clear – Connolly will only play as a last resort but he will not let his ego get in the way of history. If Dublin were leading by 6 points towards the end of the drawn game Connolly would be denied an appearance. He is not fit enough to play a full AI final but he could pull off a bit of magic. Gavin will almost certainly have him in the 26 for that reason.
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Post by dc84 on Sept 11, 2019 10:42:43 GMT
I don’t rate small that highly anyway. Connolly has played that position for St.Vincents sometimes. I would have thought Eoin Murchan would start. Kerry will probably start the same team. Q He did the best job on sob that anyone did this year he is a proper defender though as in instinct wise. With cos and McMahon nearing the end and McCarthy needed elsewhere he adds a fair bit of strenght to an otherwise light enough backline. Severely doubt we will go with the same again I'd be fairly shocked if white starts (unless him and beaglaoich switch) killian has to start surely? And maybe Sherwood in the Murphy sweeper role I think he would be excellent with Murphy going on scully and beaglaoich to wing forward?
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Post by buck02 on Sept 11, 2019 11:19:24 GMT
I saw a post from Na nGaeil saying they only had something like 4 sets of family tickets and that demand was obviously higher. The €10 tickets seemed to have been put out as a bit of a red herring to pacify those complaining about ticket prices for a replay. By the sound of things there weren't many of them out there at all. Every club in Kerry was entitled to get 10 tickets @ €10 - think some clubs passed up their entitlement on this due to the quality of the tickets on offer. Unbelievable if true. You could get a child's ticket for a tenner and clubs weren't taking them cos they were poor quality?
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Post by Ballyfireside on Sept 11, 2019 11:25:49 GMT
Could it be that Gavin has an informal arrangement with his 'panel proper' that Connolly will only be drafted if necessary? That would be a dangerous scenario and the Brogans wouldn't be lettin off without good reason, moreover at what is the highest point Dublin GAA has even been, even the GAA itself if you consider the 5 in a row crack!
As surprises go this won't be a big one and you can already hear the 'told you so' know-alls, come to think of it am I worse, I knew it before hand, Kerryman's 6th sense of anticipation!
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Post by ardfertnarrie on Sept 11, 2019 11:33:37 GMT
Every club in Kerry was entitled to get 10 tickets @ €10 - think some clubs passed up their entitlement on this due to the quality of the tickets on offer. Unbelievable if true. You could get a child's ticket for a tenner and clubs weren't taking them cos they were poor quality? I think it actually had more to do with the fact that clubs were offered 2 adult and 10 juvenile tickets together in the same row. So 2 adults would have to mind the 10 juveniles. Hardly ideal.
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Post by peanuts on Sept 11, 2019 12:42:35 GMT
Unbelievable if true. You could get a child's ticket for a tenner and clubs weren't taking them cos they were poor quality? I think it actually had more to do with the fact that clubs were offered 2 adult and 10 juvenile tickets together in the same row. So 2 adults would have to mind the 10 juveniles. Hardly ideal. AFAIK if the clubs didn't want the kids tickets they could get 10 adult tickets instead.
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Post by ardfertnarrie on Sept 11, 2019 12:51:13 GMT
I think it actually had more to do with the fact that clubs were offered 2 adult and 10 juvenile tickets together in the same row. So 2 adults would have to mind the 10 juveniles. Hardly ideal. AFAIK if the clubs didn't want the kids tickets they could get 10 adult tickets instead. Yep. Or half and half.
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Post by crokes86 on Sept 11, 2019 12:56:32 GMT
dc84 you make some good points. I suppose you could say white wasn’t great the last day. He hasn’t been using Diarmuid O’Connor and Graham O’Sullivan much . Maybe we could see one of them the next day. He seems to like using Walsh Sherwood and Spillane as impact subs .
What about Shane Enright as a sweeper? Just a thought . He has done well I think when used this year. He’s an experienced player.
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Post by sullyschoice on Sept 11, 2019 15:42:38 GMT
My club were told the kids tickets costing €10 were only being made available to squad and their backroom team. If that's the case why on earth would it be publicised in the media. That info came from Dublin County board...and they should know Our daughter has a season ticket and we only have to pay €10 for her replay ticket so I presume all juvenile season tickets are that price. Section 304 It a brilliant reduction for the season ticket holder instead of full price.
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Post by ardfertnarrie on Sept 11, 2019 15:45:38 GMT
dc84 you make some good points. I suppose you could say white wasn’t great the last day. He hasn’t been using Diarmuid O’Connor and Graham O’Sullivan much . Maybe we could see one of them the next day. He seems to like using Walsh Sherwood and Spillane as impact subs . What about Shane Enright as a sweeper? Just a thought . He has done well I think when used this year. He’s an experienced player. Who ever does that role will need pace to cover over and back acros the D. Not sure Shane fits the bill but I could be wrong.
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Post by skybluezone on Sept 11, 2019 16:36:45 GMT
Fantastic player on his day but to hear some people talk he is one of the best ever. He hasn't even been the best half forward on that team I'd have/would take Alan brogan,flynn,Kilkenny, and Howard above him tbh. i always saw him in the same light as a young fella turning up to U14 trials wearing white boots and a standout haircut, your attention it unconsciously drawn to him. You'd have such an aura built up in your head about him that by the time he gets the first ball it wouldn't matter what he'd do with it but you'd think it was fantastic! If he fell on his arse you'd think he did it well. Connelly is a presence but his best footballing days are behind him. You might be right about his best footballing days being behind him. Hard to take the guts of 2 years out of IC football and come back in expecting to be the same player. That's said I sincerely hope he makes a positive impact on Saturday. On his day the finest ever Dublin forward. Don't take my word for it, in recent years Pillar Caffrey, Alan and Bernard Brogan, and Ciaran Whelan have all told tales of the outrageous things that DC could do with a ball. I've seen him shred Philly Mc and other quality Dublin defenders in club games. And I mean shred. Also, his commitment on the pitch often goes unnoticed. Apologies for mentioning it, but Exhibit A last 10 mins of 2011 final. Worked like a dog doing the ugly stuff. Some pundits made a lot of his re-entry to the Dublin panel, questioned his commitment, upset the dynamic blah blah. The one thing Gavin and the players knew they were getting was commitment, and a real team player. Owes Dublin nothing. Once he was back in, he was in 100%. As for style, throw in 2013 semi, especially the free off his wrong side. His last point in 2016 semi, again wrong foot, on the run, sweet as a nut. In the championship moments. Plus an assortment of check side beauts off either foot from distance over the years. And a fair quota of goals to boot. Deft finishes, rockets, the whole shooting gallery. There's a few clips of him on YouTube that will impress even the anti DC brigade. He had to put up with some sh1t off Keegan too, I can only assume that if Gough was reffing then Lee would have seen red at an early stage, as Gough likes to penalise any form of contact as we now know. But as is the way with the GAA they decided to give Keegan POTY instead. Incidentally, was Gough reffing when he sent off Keegan v Donegal this year? In the minus column, the one thing he wasn't blessed with was an even temperament. Which led to more trouble on the pitch than it should have. Think Ciaran McDonald only better, much better. Actually that's wrong. Don't think CMcD had a right foot unless I'm mistaken.
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Post by ballhopper34 on Sept 11, 2019 16:51:00 GMT
The defensive structure was very good in the drawn game...it took an exceptional sequence of of plays for Dublin to score their goal. Management seems to have the defenders playing as a unit much better than earlier in the year.
Recent innovations in the game have been on getting the backs right first, then see if a few scores can be found to win a game (ref. Donegal). This Kerry squad is different...we have the forwards and the backs must improve in training week after week. As tough as it must be facing the likes of O'Brien, O'Shea, Clifford and Geaney once or twice a year, imagine how much a set of backs will learn facing them twice a week.
I believe Mick O'Dwyer's training games had every defender mark (or try to mark) John Egan for a few minutes. Same lesson in 2019...defenders can't help but get better when trying to cover superior quality forwards.
I'll be quite happy with a similar defensive effort from drawn game to replay, but I know they target improvement. Likewise, the forwards look to improve. All of which means the team itself will have great confidence in the replay.
Can't ask for much more that that, and let the chips fall where they may.
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Post by ruralgaa on Sept 11, 2019 18:40:44 GMT
I was fairly confident two weeks ago so I bought a ticket for the post match function. Is this ticket still valid for Saturday night!?
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Post by stevieq on Sept 11, 2019 19:13:44 GMT
Anyone interested in a straight swap - 3 Premium Tickets (all together) for 4 Stand Tickets that are all together. PM me
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Post by Mickmack on Sept 11, 2019 20:45:16 GMT
IrishExaminerOpen Menu NEWS SPORT BUSINESS VIEWS LIFE Kerry survived the beast. Now to mount its head on their wall By Mike Quirke Monday, September 09, 2019 - 11:40 PM The first instalment was one of those rare games that seem to get inside your soul and suck you into the emotional rollercoaster that was playing out before your eyes. It felt like the 2014 replay between Kerry and Mayo in the Gaelic Grounds all over again. You could feel your heartrate jump like it was on a trampoline, with legs that curiously wouldn’t stop shaking with the excitement and tension. It’s impossible to replicate those kinds of situations with anything else in life. A complete cocktail of emotions for the 82,300 supporters lucky enough to have found a ticket. Sitting a few rows in front of me in the Cusack Stand for the game was one of the greatest players that ever laced them up. Seamus Moynihan was always as good a guy off the field as he was the complete footballer on it. Classy, humble, hardy, he had the full package. After Sean O’Shea committed the late foul out by the sideline to present Dean Rock with one last chance to secure the historic five-in-a-row with the last kick of the ball, I noticed Seamo standing tall when most other people around him were sitting and watching through their fingers. His head was bowed, hands raised high over his head with his fingers crossed. I’m not sure if he’s a regular in the Glenflesk parish church on Sunday mornings, but he looked like a man calling in all his favours for some kind of divine intervention. I can still vividly remember him telling our dressing room many years ago about the need to improve after a drawn championship game against Cork and how it would be the team that learns the most from first game that will win the replay. . There’s a lot of truth and sense in that logic, and while individual players will have underperformed for various reasons the first day out, both management teams and sets of players will have spent the past week reviewing the match to search for areas of improvement to try to find those marginal gains that could make all the difference next Saturday evening. If you were Jim Gavin or Peter Keane this week, what are the work-ons you would be focussing on with your players? The last couple of sessions would have been all about accentuating the positives and framing everything in the affirmative to try and keep the mood as upbeat as possible. It was about recovering from any knocks and making sure everybody was in a good place, mentally and physically. Both groups will know that victory or defeat were only a whisker away given the incredibly resilient performance of the 14-man Dubs for over 40 minutes after Jonny Cooper’s dismissal, matched by the second-half surge from Kerry to go from five points down to a point up in what seemed like a blur. Once you start to drill down through the initial anti-climax, Kerry will be disappointed with their late-game composure and inability to create any scoring chances for the final 12 minutes of action. During that period, with Dublin drawing on their deep reservoir of energy and never-say-die attitude, they hounded Kerry into a raft of crucial turnovers. Kerry had five key losses of possession in that time and it enabled Dublin to build a wave of momentum to finish out the contest. Perhaps Kerry got mentally caught in between two stools; push on and attack for the ‘nail in the coffin’ score, or play keep-ball and take time off the clock and have the Dubs chasing shadows. You would imagine, the players and management will have examined those final turnover-filled minutes and will settle on an agreed strategy should they find themselves in a similar position next weekend with the finish line in sight. Both sides will look at the success and failure of their kick-out attack and defence as two of the key facets of their gameplan that can be improved. Shane Ryan was playing in his first senior final in Croke Park and despite facing the well-organised Dublin zonal press, he managed to retain 75% of the restarts and it gave the Kerry attack a steady supply of ball all through. On the other side, Kerry re-released their 4-4-4 kick-out press from every dead-ball, free-in or 45 to try to disrupt Cluxton’s and Dublin’s flow. According to statistics by dontfoul, Dublin were coming into the final retaining 81.5% of their own kick-outs in the past four games. Kerry’s set up forced that number down to 76% (19 of 25) and generally caused a sense of unease that you don’t normally associate with the champions. Crucially, as they always seem to do, the champions adapted and survived long enough to find a solution. You’d imagine Dublin will have highlighted what they perceive to be the weakest pocket of the Kerry press to overload with blue jerseys to attack next Saturday. The key match-ups all generally went the way both management teams will have thought. The pebbles in the shoe for Kerry were obviously the brilliant Jack McCaffrey from half-back, the understated Brian Howard, and the constantly underrated Dean Rock. Rock’s three points from play to go along with his six pointed frees and 45 will cause Kerry management to take another look at Jason Foley to see if he’s the best guy for the job. The free tally has nothing to do with Foley, but that defensive ill-discipline inside the scoring zone will be something they will focus on as a group this week. READ MORE Micheál Martin ready for 2020 election Kerry need to be physical and aggressive with the Dublin attackers without giving away frees unless it’s the best option left on the table. McCaffrey is an altogether different dilemma – a nightmare match-up for whoever he is picking up. And as a defender, Dublin have the luxury of putting him on whatever Kerry forward they feel they can exploit the most. While Gavin White is physically a good fit and has the raw pace to match McCaffrey, playing as a half-forward is a relatively new experience for the Dr Crokes man and he hasn’t looked his usual dynamic self since playing the role. Whether Kerry go with him again, or try to re-shuffle their deck to force the Dublin flyer to have to do a little more defending, remains to be seen. Jim Gavin will look at whether Johnny Cooper is as good a fit for David Clifford as they previously envisaged, or if James McCarthy is the best-suited to curb the influence of Sean O’Shea. Perhaps Michael Darragh could be under pressure in the middle, too, given the dominance of Jack Barry and David Moran in that sector. The Dublin management will surely examine ways to get Brian Fenton more involved in the play and will have highlighted that his paltry 15 possessions was one of his lowest since he came into the team. His teammates will be actively encouraged to get him on ball early and often to help him forge his way into the game. The Xs and Os of kick-out adjustments and rejigging of marking assignments will fill the whiteboards and the column inches of the next week, and both teams of decision-makers will provide as much information and guidance as they can draw upon. Ultimately, as it always does, it’ll come down to what the players deliver once the ball is thrown up. No doubt Kerry will take huge confidence and experience from having gone toe-to-toe with the beast from the east and lived to tell the tale. He is sure to come back with a fury, and while surviving his brutality is one thing, taking his head to mount on your wall is at least a more realistic prospect than it was a fortnight ago.
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Post by Ballyfireside on Sept 11, 2019 21:21:35 GMT
I suppose there is a lot of jockeying for position in the media with Jack O'6 now saying TW should start. The reality is PK knows what Tommy can endure and so cuts his cloth accordingly. There is always be a player who doesn't fire on a given day and so having TW as a sub has us with the best form 15 for the 70+.
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Post by seeking38 on Sept 11, 2019 21:48:02 GMT
Our daughter has a season ticket and we only have to pay €10 for her replay ticket so I presume all juvenile season tickets are that price. Section 304 It a brilliant reduction for the season ticket holder instead of full price. Fair play to the GAA. I've 2 kids with season tickets and €20 is great value.
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Post by peanuts on Sept 11, 2019 22:12:49 GMT
It a brilliant reduction for the season ticket holder instead of full price. Fair play to the GAA. I've 2 kids with season tickets and €20 is great value. Nice bonus for season ticket holders but well deserved at the same time.
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Post by sullyschoice on Sept 11, 2019 23:30:16 GMT
My youngfella is 19 now and I didnt renew because he was over age and doing the leaving cert ( couldnt travel for weekends away) . He is sweating now and waiting for his name to be picked out of the hat in the club
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Post by john4 on Sept 11, 2019 23:54:59 GMT
Saw this on twitter, that's a crazy stat
"No idea who did the research for this or where it came from, but well done. An incredible piece of All Ireland final trivia... of the 4 replays this decade (3 hurling, 1 football) the man of the match in the replay was a player who hadn’t started the drawn game. Mad stuff."
So, who's it gonna be!
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Post by kerryexile on Sept 12, 2019 7:21:27 GMT
This is the first pundit, in any area of the media that I have seen, backing Kerry.
Kingdom have Dublin's number' - Cork legend backs Kerry to halt drive for five
Cork legend Tompkins believes Kerry have room to improve in bid to halt drive for five
The All-Ireland five-in-a-row club will remain unoccupied after Dublin become the latest to be refused admittance on Saturday, according to former Cork All-Ireland winning captain, Larry Tompkins.
He expects Kerry to step up from the drawn game and questions whether Dublin have more to offer.
"What have Dublin left in the tank - that's the question? In fairness they dug in bravely when they had to the last day, but there's more room for improvement in Kerry.
"They didn't know what to expect going into the first game, but they do now. The way they came back from a five-point deficit will have worked wonders for their confidence. They have the hunger, the desire, the exuberance and if they get their game working as it can, I'd fancy them to win," he said.
However, he stipulates that the Kerry attack must do a lot better than they did last Sunday week.
"With the exception of Seán O'Shea, none of the forwards that started would be happy with their performances. These are seriously good players, but they didn't show it the last day. Not the way they can anyway," said Tompkins.
He believes Kerry should designate Stephen O'Brien for a head-to-head contest with Jack McCaffrey, who scored 1-3 on his breaks from the half-back line in the drawn game.
"McCaffrey wasn't tested defensively at all. Kerry need to do that and I'd see O'Brien as the man to take it on. McCaffrey is a great talent, especially when he gets forward so you have to keep him worried about the defensive side," added Tompkins.
He rejects the theory that favourites enjoy great record in replays with the champions poised to return to business as usual.
"That might be the case against any other county but Kerry. The belief they will get from the drawn game is massive. Several of their players are capable of a lot more and I just think their appetite will be too much for Dublin, who looked a bit flat at times.
"Dublin have been a fantastic side and could conjure up another great effort, but they're looking a lot more vulnerable now. Kerry can exploit that," he said.
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Post by onlykerry on Sept 12, 2019 8:18:04 GMT
Conventional wisdom when Kerry play another team is that our forwards will win us the game even if we only win 40% of the possession - our accuracy and scoring rate is generally better. My impression this year is that we are missing a lot and our conversion rate of chances is not quiet at that level - pehaps someone has the stats on this. Against Dublin on Saturday we need to convert more of our chances to get over the line. Most other aspects of the game we were good enough (not saying we cant improve in other areas).
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Post by greengold35 on Sept 12, 2019 8:39:42 GMT
Conventional wisdom when Kerry play another team is that our forwards will win us the game even if we only win 40% of the possession - our accuracy and scoring rate is generally better. My impression this year is that we are missing a lot and our conversion rate of chances is not quiet at that level - pehaps someone has the stats on this. Against Dublin on Saturday we need to convert more of our chances to get over the line. Most other aspects of the game we were good enough (not saying we cant improve in other areas). Kerrys conversion rate ( 70%) is similar to Dublin's ( 71%) when taking the stats of the " Big 3" on each side - Mannion, O'Callaghan & Kilkenny, Geaney, Clifford & O'Brien ( scores from dead balls excluded) - where Kerry have failed by comparison is that our shooting from inside the 30m line is much inferior to Dublin's ( 59%, 23 scores from 39 attempts) - its as if we almost switch off when closer to goals! Dublin's conversion ratio inside the 30m line is 74%.
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Post by poppy7 on Sept 12, 2019 9:44:46 GMT
My youngfella is 19 now and I didnt renew because he was over age and doing the leaving cert ( couldnt travel for weekends away) . He is sweating now and waiting for his name to be picked out of the hat in the club We were in the same boat with our 20 year old who is in college and plays soccer on Sunday mornings. I hummed and hawed before deciding to renew it and boy am I glad I did now. He comfortably got over the 60% (the Saturday night games were a great help).
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Post by kot on Sept 12, 2019 9:45:18 GMT
No doubt we missed some bad ones the last day and even throughout the championship. Those balls that used get into Gooch & Declan back in the day and you didn't even have to glance. You knew it was over. Dublin have that same sort of inevitability in recent times, if the ball gets into that front quartet of their's within 30/40 yards.... usually its over the bar.
The thing is though, that doesn't happen automatically. It takes experience and familiarity. Dublin are at the peak level in that regards, we can only improve. I thought Clifford was forcing a lot of his shots the last week similar to the second part of the first half against Tyrone. If he gets his first one or two he will settle. Geaney is very similar, if he hits them early then he usually gets on a roll. All you need is Sean O'Shea to maintain (easy right) and those 2 boys to be a bit better in front of the posts and it will make it very interesting.
We are still massive underdogs no doubt, we have come in a bit with respect to how the bookies see it but only ever so slightly. Once again we need a massive amount to go our way to pull this off. However, the experience of the last day cannot be understated. Forget the 14 men, if we were even half as efficient as we can be when it was 15 on 15 we would have been ahead at that point.
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Post by Ard Mhacha on Sept 12, 2019 9:49:21 GMT
Saw this on twitter, that's a crazy stat "No idea who did the research for this or where it came from, but well done. An incredible piece of All Ireland final trivia... of the 4 replays this decade (3 hurling, 1 football) the man of the match in the replay was a player who hadn’t started the drawn game. Mad stuff." So, who's it gonna be! Walter Walsh, Shane O’Donnell... can’t recall the other hurling one. Who was the football one? There’s been so many Dublin Mayo meetings they all merge into one for me.
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Post by dabomber on Sept 12, 2019 9:54:16 GMT
Saw this on twitter, that's a crazy stat "No idea who did the research for this or where it came from, but well done. An incredible piece of All Ireland final trivia... of the 4 replays this decade (3 hurling, 1 football) the man of the match in the replay was a player who hadn’t started the drawn game. Mad stuff." So, who's it gonna be! Walter Walsh, Shane O’Donnell... can’t recall the other hurling one. Who was the football one? There’s been so many Dublin Mayo meetings they all merge into one for me. 2012 Walter Walsh (Kilkenny v Galway) Not alone did Walsh not start the first game, he’d never started any game. This was his Kilkenny debut, a 21-year-old man-child coming in for Aidan Fogarty at corner-forward. He was rampant all day, scoring two points in the first half as Kilkenny took hold of the game and hammering down the final nail with a goal on 57 minutes to put them nine ahead. 2013 Shane O’Donnell (Clare v Cork) Having featured here and there in the earlier rounds, O’Donnell was smuggled into the Clare team in place of Darach Honan for the replay, with Davy Fitzgerald not even telling him it was happening until after the team meal a couple of hours before the game. His impact was rapid and deadly. He had three goals on the board inside the opening 19 minutes and finished his day with 3-3 from play. Dream stuff. 2014 Kieran Joyce (Kilkenny v Tipperary) After Tipperary had rattled up 1-28 in the drawn game, Joyce came in at centre-back from Brian Hogan (see main story). Joyce had played a minute since the Leinster semi-final against Galway almost four months previously but he came in and held the centre of the Kilkenny defence to take the statue. 2016 Mick Fitzsimons (Dublin v Mayo) Fitzsimons had come off the bench in the drawn game but hadn’t started a championship game for two years. He replaced David Byrne for the second game and put in a brilliant defensive display, tackling and shadowing Cillian O’Connor to huge effect.
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Post by Mickmack on Sept 12, 2019 10:17:30 GMT
After the league game in Tralee a lad at work from Tipp said to me that if Kerry get Dublin in Croker on a dry day that Kerrys forwards would take Dublins backs to the cleaners. A big statement back then.
He is now back after celebrating Tipps win so i sought him out this morning...
"Kerry will create enough chances to put 3.16 on the scoreboard and that will be enough but ye must take yer chances " says he.
He also told me that Tipp had to have two coaches on match days.... one for the players and the other one for the backroom team of mentors and all the others that Sheehy had brought in.
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Post by Annascaultilidie on Sept 12, 2019 10:36:31 GMT
My confidence is waning.
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Post by a01bf4eb on Sept 12, 2019 10:56:04 GMT
After the league game in Tralee a lad at work from Tipp said to me that if Kerry get Dublin in Croker on a dry day that Kerrys forwards would take Dublins backs to the cleaners. A big statement back then. He is now back after celebrating Tipps win so i sought him out this morning... "Kerry will create enough chances to put 3.16 on the scoreboard and that will be enough but ye must take yer chances " says he. He also told me that Tipp had to have two coaches on match days.... one for the players and the other one for the backroom team of mentors and all the others that Sheehy had brought in. Does anyone know how many in total are in Kerry's backroom team?
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