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Post by kerrygold on Mar 4, 2015 18:23:21 GMT
Any truth in the rumours that Tomas is transferring back back west, Kennelly is spending the next six months in Ireland and Declan has put off his operations until October?
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Post by sullyschoice on Mar 4, 2015 21:19:03 GMT
Galvin could be lined up to take on the role played by Declan O Sullivan last year.
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Post by southward on Mar 4, 2015 22:41:47 GMT
Must say I'm (slightly) in the "not sure this is a good idea" camp. I can't help wondering what some of the fringe players bursting a gut to get in (say Lyne, BJ etc) think of it. Add in the inevitable circus it will engender in the media and I have to ask is it worth it ? But hey, what do I know ? Fitzy's been the man with the right calls so far. Just don't have a good feeling about this one.
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Post by fitz on Mar 5, 2015 0:39:44 GMT
Let's normalize this. Fitzmaurice is a ruthless football businessman. He sees what he wants then goes about putting the pieces together to ge it.He hasn't afaik no made one communication bib blot to date. He knows the media machine is going to crank up and will be a hindrance. However he decides it is a necessary evil to endure because: He sees a specific role in Paul to increase Kerry's chances of winning Sam. He is aware of Paul's age, stress levels,fitness, mindset, motivation. He knows what Paul ate for dinner two weeks ago last Friday He has weighed up the potential negatives. He has consulted everyone he believes will be affected by the decision and put a plan in place for this. He has a plan for things not working out. He has a step by step plan if Paul progresses positively. He has all of these bases covered. He then issued a 1 liner - Galvin is back. All of the above I believe must be true apart from POSSIBLY the dinner bit, if we reflect on his work to date with the team and what he has achieved and how. All of us are tri na cheile because we don't have the answers, we don't know the role for Galvin and we're understandably concerned if it proves to be an unsuccessful venture. I have unshakable confidence in Eamonn. I believe in Paul unreservedly in his will and application and character. Things outside of his control, age, flexibility, lack competitive high standard football, balance, old injuries are realistic factors in preventing him making a valuable playing contribution to playing. Fitzmaurice has put the framework in place for him to succeed without destabilizing the team. Back to guessing all of it now.
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Post by kerrygold on Mar 5, 2015 9:21:57 GMT
Must say I'm (slightly) in the "not sure this is a good idea" camp. I can't help wondering what some of the fringe players bursting a gut to get in (say Lyne, BJ etc) think of it. Add in the inevitable circus it will engender in the media and I have to ask is it worth it ? But hey, what do I know ? Fitzy's been the man with the right calls so far. Just don't have a good feeling about this one. It will all settle down very quickly and find it's own level within the panel.
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Post by seamus on Mar 5, 2015 10:38:10 GMT
I love all the people who claim to have full trust in Eamonn's judgement on this. Everyone loves his judgement until he gets it wrong and then he will get hammered.
Watch the Joe Schmidt 'love in' disappear if Ireland lose in Cardiff. All the vampires will come out of the shadows moaning about how we can't win playing negative rugby.
Its a big, ballsy call by Eamonn with a lot more potential downside than upside. The real nugget in this is it shows how comfortable he is in his own skin right now as Kerry manager. Cuthbert is below in Cork playing 15 men behind the ball after retiring everyone over the age of 30 and now realising he has no midfield or leadership.
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Post by animal on Mar 5, 2015 12:11:14 GMT
I love all the people who claim to have full trust in Eamonn's judgement on this. Everyone loves his judgement until he gets it wrong and then he will get hammered. Watch the Joe Schmidt 'love in' disappear if Ireland lose in Cardiff. All the vampires will come out of the shadows moaning about how we can't win playing negative rugby. Its a big, ballsy call by Eamonn with a lot more potential downside than upside. The real nugget in this is it shows how comfortable he is in his own skin right now as Kerry manager. Cuthbert is below in Cork playing 15 men behind the ball after retiring everyone over the age of 30 and now realising he has no midfield or leadership. To be fair Eamonn has earned that trust. Even if this doesn't work out he still has my trust just as he still had my trust after he made mistakes at the end of the semi-final against Dublin in '13. Eamonn might well get hammered by some if he slips up badly but I won't be one of those hammering. I think you hit the nail on the head when you say that it shows how comfortable he is in his own skin. That is it in a nutshell. We should be damn glad that he is. I have no time for people who are quick to turn on managers or players when results go badly. Rugby as you mentioned is a good case in point. Both Eddie O'Sullivan and Declan kidney got a rough old time of it near the end. Sometimes a manager's time is just up and it's the right time to move on. It doesn't make them poor managers. I found myself standing up for Deccie in a pub conversation the other night bizarrely having to remind his detractors that he won a Grand Slam!
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Post by haryegsnbaken on Mar 5, 2015 16:46:12 GMT
I am glad Paul is giving it another go.
35 is an age where most people will be heading over the hill but Galvin is NOT most people.
I hope He is there to try to nail down the 10 shirt for which we haven't unearthed anyone yet IMO.
John Lyne and Mikey Geaney have been tried along with Stephen O Brien
Even if he can impart his knowledge in this department to others, I say GO FOR IT!!!
Welcome back Paul.
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Post by blackisbad on Mar 5, 2015 18:47:19 GMT
Personally i didnt think galvin played too well in his last year with kerry so i find it very hard to see him improving the current team or even panel. Hopefully im wrong and best of luck to him.
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Post by seamo on Mar 5, 2015 19:14:10 GMT
I think there is sentimentality involved. Does Galvin deserve a place in the squad based on his club football performances in 2014? No Does Galvin deserve a place in the squad based on his intercounty performances in 2013? No Should a player deserve a place in the squad based on intercounty performances from 3+ years ago? Possibly, but definitely involves a degree of sentimentality Perhaps there's feeling of "Gooch and Tommy Walsh are back after missing at least a year, why not the same for Paul Galvin?" reverse that argument then... does tommy walsh deserve his place in the squad given your above criteria?I felt when Galvin retired last year he still had a bit to contribute, coming on to help close out games for teh last 10 minutes. Maybe he could play that role? maybe he is happy to be no. 23 or 24 and cover for either backs or forwards. then again maybe he is denying a fella more worthy of a place in the squad, (if he even makes the championship 26.) twil be interesting at least Terrible argument, Tommy Walsh is ~26 and playing professional sport last year! Tommy just needs to kick off the rust, you'd wanna be a right numpty to not try and avail of his services. A retired 35 year old is completely different! I hope this works out, both for Kerry's sake and for Paul's. But it is a bizzare decision.
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Post by 1955 on Mar 5, 2015 22:32:04 GMT
rumours from South Kerry that one Maurice Fitzgerald will be ready in 4 weeks for a recall?
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Post by wayupnorth on Mar 6, 2015 11:46:28 GMT
Pat Spillane quoted in today's Indo says it's a big mistake and compares it with 1989 when Micko persuaded the "old dogs" to come back for one last shot. But it's not quite the same thing. It's just one old dog and last year has shown that unlike the tail end of the Golden Years the young players are being given their chance to break through. Fitzmaurice has shown that he will not allow sentiment to cloud his judgement and the really exciting thing about this team is the blend of experience and youth.
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Post by sinkthelead on Mar 6, 2015 12:58:54 GMT
Pat Spillane quoted in today's i do thinks it's a big mistake anticipates it with 1989 when Micko persuaded the "old dogs" to come back for one last shot. But it's not quite the same thing. It's just one old dog and last year has shown that unlike the tail end of the Golden Years the young players are being given their chance to break through. Fitzmaurice has shown that he will not allow sentiment to cloud his judgement and the really exciting thing about this team is the blend of experience and youth. I would ten to agree with Spillane! Galvin in was past it 3 years ago. A great player in his day but if I were a Kerry man I'd be worried it's a backward step unless of course he's main use will be a v b games with ten minute cameos. As a dub I hope they stick him on Flynn or Conolly
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Post by Ballyfireside on Mar 6, 2015 14:38:57 GMT
He is only on the training panel and managers are only outed when they start making repeated silly decisions. I am heartened that so many are voicing their devotion to Fitzy and he will have a good few years, God willing. Dublin are half the odds we are to lift Sam and back to backs are not easy. Éamonn only has Paul back because it helps to close any potential margin and Galvin will be instrumental in 'schooling' our younger players like Declan did last year. I think our guys are cut off from the media unlike in Pat Spillane's playing years and fellas are media hardened/savvy today. While the news captured the public imagination, it wouldn't be a distraction for those involved, what with so much going on and it will have upped the bar another notch again and which is only good. They will all rise to the challenge and it will toughen up newer recruits. Paul personifies tactics and maybe he forgot to pass on the baton as part of his legacy.
I find it all so exciting and wasn't Marc is a right joker asking Galvin for an autograph and a selfie. He didn't lick that one off the ground and it was of course a bit of the Paidí breaking out in him!
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Post by givehimaball on Mar 6, 2015 17:49:39 GMT
Theme tune for Paul for this year
Weirdly the guy who hits the canvass in this doesnt look too dissimiliar to Paul.
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Post by Seoirse Ui Duic on Mar 6, 2015 19:10:00 GMT
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Post by Seoirse Ui Duic on Mar 6, 2015 19:11:29 GMT
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Post by homerj on Mar 6, 2015 20:18:32 GMT
he didn't really play much football last year did he?
When he did, any idea how it went?
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Post by givehimaball on Mar 6, 2015 20:44:53 GMT
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Post by misteallaigh abú on Mar 6, 2015 20:59:45 GMT
Great to have paul in and around the dressing room again, lot of young fellas on that panel and he will surely drive them and inspire them, at least that's the hope!
As far as I'm aware, Paul played no competitive football at all last year? I stand corrected!
I must admit that when I heard the news from kerry a few days ago I thought it was a wind up. I'm still asking myself why would he come back? I'm really looking forward to seeing the answer to that question. I sincerely hope that it works out for him and for Kerry. It's a brave move by management and an even braver one by paul. He was always brave to the bone, best wishes Paul, hope you make your mark again.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 6, 2015 21:48:30 GMT
Darragh put in nicely tonight on the last word when he said that eamon and Paul will have considered all the possible outcomes.
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Post by greenandgold on Mar 7, 2015 7:17:56 GMT
Laughed when i first heard this but laughed with pure pleasure- how different from last year when we seemed to keep loosing players! I can only see having Galvin in the squad as positive - what an addition to have Murphy or Fitzgerald et all marking him in training.
After that- its up to him to earn a place and i have no doubt he will do his very damnedest to do just that - id be amazed if he makes first 15 at any stage but what a sub to have for the sticky games
Welcome back Paul!
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Post by Mickmack on Mar 7, 2015 11:22:22 GMT
So Paul Galvin is back in not so subtle circumstances. But is this good or bad news for The Kingdom?
No one likes distractions. In the run up to take a free kick, as you’re walking down the aisle to say I do for the first time, or about to pot a difficult black with the whole pub watching you. Least of all in the build up to a defence of a hard won Sam Maguire.
This week word leaked out (more like boiled over the edge of the pot and nearly ruined the cooker top) that Paul Galvin wanted to be part of the Kerry Senior panel for the Kingdoms assault on this years All Ireland senior football championship. But before we lay into the man, let’s talk about how good he is. Paul Galvin is one of the most decorated players of the modern era with seven Munster titles, four All Irelands and three All Stars. Amidst those victories are two back to back All Ireland wins in 2006 and 2007, which hasn’t been done since Cork in 1990 and probably won’t be replicated any time soon.
He’s fiercely competitive he “winters well” as they say in Kerry Gaelic circles and his fitness could never be called into question.
A modern man?
As a representative for the modern GAA he’s very different from the mumbly head-down school teacher persona that characterises most Gaelic sportsmen. “Ah t’was a great game Marty and we were lucky to come away with the win. The boys gave it 110% out there like ye know”. Over the past ten years Paul has written and edited his own autobiography, has more twitter followers than Bernard Brogan (or any other Gaelic footballer for that matter) and flirted with the world of fashion. So, quite the modern man.
But with all these creative types, there comes a dark side. Knock the ref’s black book from his hands in angry fit. It’s ‘Go to Jail’ card time and a six month suspension. Stick your finger in an opponent’s mouth? Two month suspension. He even got involved in a nasty verbal and physical scuffle with ‘satirist’ Oliver Callan, which was investigated by the Gardaí and became a minor media circus until the story was washed away by the passage of time and common sense. On and off the field, Paul can bring distractions. And the only people who need distractions are bad magicians.
Few people in Gaelic football can speak about Kerry football with the same gravitas as Pat Spillane or Darragh O Se but their comments this week, questioning the value Paul could bring at the age of 35, won’t please the Kerry manager Eamon Fitzmaurice. But if he is to take on the occasional circus that Paul can bring he better get used to it. Even the manner in which the message got out there seems uncontrolled. Many of the Kerry squad found out he was coming back in a text message from the man himself.
From a footballing perspective, age shouldn’t be that big an issue. Kildare’s Johnny Doyle was knocking points over the bar for Kildare and for the Compromise rules team when he was 36.
That said, Kildare needed Johnny as the county doesn’t produce footballers like him too often. But surely Kerry aren’t short of forwards with the Gooch returning from injury and putting in a fine display last weekend against the Dubs and Kieran Donaghy back to his annoying best.
Balotelli V Galvin V Gavin Duffy
What a fight, you’re probably thinking. On a serious note, its common knowledge that at teams Balotelli has played, his team mates have resented the attention he gets from coaches and managers to get him to fit in. That was certainly the truth at Inter Milan and neither Stevie G nor Daniel Sturridge have any time for Super Mario. Yet more distractions for a young team in rebuild.
Going back to last year’s championship ex-Connaught and Ireland rugby player Gavin Duffy joined the Mayo panel in an ill -fated attempt to play for his beloved county. The whole episode creaked along with doubts about his fitness (he’s a professional athlete that couldn’t even make the 45 man panel) and then it turned out that he missed the deadline to register to play for Mayo.
At the time people were kind to him and Mayo, but in the quiet corners of pubs in Westport and Castlebar they must have been thinking “are we that badly off?.” Luckily for Mayo the distraction was mercifully short lived but the other Mayo players must have been asking themselves if the squad was that weak that the management felt the need to bring in ex-rugby players. Not to mention the fact that teams have finite resources and if your strength and conditioning coach is spending more time with one player, it creates resentment.
Now Eamon Fitzmaurice, who is Paul’s brother in law, needs to balance two needs. The need for a proven athlete with a rake of medals and experience of retaining the Sam Maguire and the need to protect his rebuilding project from unnecessary distractions. But with many things in life, every rose has its thorn.
David Byrne, Pundit Arena
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Post by Mickmack on Mar 7, 2015 11:24:16 GMT
The news from the Kingdom this week confirmed that Don Henley was right about Kerry football: you can check out any time you like but you can never leave.
Paul Galvin’s return to training was further evidence, if any was needed, that you can’t be up to them in Kerry. But it also reminded us that walking away from sport – calling time on yourself – is the toughest task in the game.
There is a terrific vignette towards the end of Galvin’s autobiography in which he recalls meeting an elderly man in a hardware shop a few weeks after Dublin had blitzed Kerry in the closing quarter of the 2011 All-Ireland final. No words were exchanged: the senior man just took hold of Galvin by the arms and looked at him until he was on the point of tears. Then he nodded and walked out. “The cashier had seen the moment happen. I put down whatever it was I was buying and left talking to myself,” Galvin writes.
“Football. What was it all for? Some poor old man distraught in a hardware store? It was enough to make you wonder. It shouldn’t be that serious but it is, I suppose. It reminded me just how much Kerry people care about football.”
Precisely. In the decade after he made his senior debut for Kerry, Galvin was refashioned from a blue-collar, hard-grafting forward into a wonderfully subtle if abrasive half forward with a license to roam. He became a totemic figure for Kerry.
Because of a few highly publicised on-field transgressions and because his image, with the ink and the beard, was radical compared to the deeply conservative appearance favoured by most GAA stars, his profile transcended the game.
The entertaining RTÉ documentary Galvinised, in which he wasn’t afraid to declare a fascination with haute couture fashion, added to the general interest. Within the confines of the GAA, he seemed radical and even a little eccentric.
Close attention In his heyday, Galvin was one of the players supporters from both sides paid close attention to. And it wasn’t just because of the short fuse and the possibility of trouble. It was because stopping Galvin was critical if your team was going to thrive in the match. And because watching him use a football was one of the chief joys of the day. He wasn’t flashy but he was fastidiously tidy in everything he did and he seemed to take the right option most of the time.
His decision to quit Kerry early last year, hot on the heels of Tomás Ó Sé, seemed like a de facto admission from the Kingdom that they were about to enter a rehabilitative period. The long-term injury to Colm Cooper and the departure of so many heavyweight senior figures left them firmly placed just beyond All-Ireland contention in the eyes of most people.
One of the most enjoyable working hours I spent last year was quizzing Eamon Fitzmaurice on a rainy lunchtime in the school in Dingle where he teaches history. It was around this time of year and Kerry were in what was becoming a customary early-league slump. Fitzmaurice couldn’t have known Kerry would win the All-Ireland that September but in retrospect, he must have been delighted by just how breezily their chances were being written off. Rarely has a Kerry team entered the All-Ireland with less pressure.
What they did between early August, when they played Galway in a staggeringly open quarter-final, and September amounts to one of the great All-Ireland raids. Even after they had signalled a warning by beating Cork in Munster, nobody saw them coming. In the weeks after that triumph, the rest of the football world must have felt like chess masters realising too slowly that they were just a few moves away from an inevitable check-mate.
Tommy Walsh is returning. Colm Cooper is back in action. Kerry’s All-Ireland-winning minor team was especially rich in promise. Just like that, Kerry football looks in rude health. The sound of contentment and optimism has been constant all winter.
Pat Spillane’s declaration yesterday that Galvin’s return to the mix gave him a “bad feeling” is in keeping with the grave reservations within the Kingdom of tampering with the remorseless push for continuity of the football tradition. Last year’s All-Ireland win was mostly about the emerging names – Fionn Fitzgerald, the Geaneys, Paul Murphy.
It was their first flight, when nobody expected them to. The win must have been slightly disconcerting to players like Ó Sé and Galvin: the kids could at least have pretended to struggle a bit without them.
The All-Ireland win means the dressing room now will be very different to the one Galvin left. Boys have grown up: new voices will be central. He may have that illustrious past but he has to make himself fit in again among a new generation of Kerry players. In a weird way, Paul Galvin has to prove himself all over again.
Midweek training The bet here is that that was part of the reason he has decided to go back. There was something definitive and convincing about Tomás Ó Sé’s reason for stepping away, when he said “I went as hard as I could for as long as I could”. Galvin’s reasons for retiring were never quite as clear cut: a combination of injuries and the tedium and exhaustion of travelling from Dublin for midweek training and the toll of all of those seasons probably made it seem like a good idea at the time.
If there is a risk involved here it is confined to the player himself. When he retired, it was to a chorus of handsome tributes and garlands and a general consensus that he owed the game nothing.
If he returns and finds that he can’t tap into his best game or that he isn’t quite getting to the ball as often as he used to, then the verdict may be less forgiving. That Eamon Fitzmaurice is his brother-in- law won’t affect matters in the slightest; players know themselves if they are cutting it. If he gets picked in high summer, it will be on form and merit.
The point is not whether Galvin should or should not have come back. The point is that he clearly had to. The year away gave him enough space and time to realise nothing compares to the thrill of the game. It must be a genuinely disturbing moment to accept you will never play in front of 30,000 in Fitzgerald Stadium again being used to it over a decade.
Galvin is lucky he realised he had called time on himself a few seasons too early and that he has the independence of spirit to make the correction. The Irish way in these situations is never particularly gracious. He will be watched closely just to see if he falls on his face. But then, wasn’t it always that way for Paul Galvin?
KEITH DUGGAN IRISH TIMES
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Post by Annascaultilidie on Mar 7, 2015 12:10:16 GMT
It must be a genuinely disturbing moment to accept you will never play in front of 30,000 in Fitzgerald Stadium again being used to it over a decade. Fitzgerald stadium is bigger than that.
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Post by glengael on Mar 7, 2015 12:42:12 GMT
The fine art of talking while saying very little.
From Wednesday's Times.
Having played alongside him for seven years, and having managed the Kerry Under 21s in his initiation challenge match against the senior panel on Tuesday night, Darragh Ó Sé’s opinion on the return of Paul Galvin counts more than most.
The 2009 Footballer of the Year returned to the Kerry fold in a behind-closed-doors challenge game against Ó Sé’s team in Tralee last night, scoring 1-1 while lining out back in his customary half forward position.
In a Kerry team made up of those who had not featured in the weekend’s defeat of Dublin, Galvin demonstrated the fitness levels which have allowed him to return to the All-Ireland champions’ panel ahead of round four of the league aged 35.
“I’d be very open minded about how it will all work out,” says Ó Sé. “Eamonn [Fitzmaurice] isn’t going to commit himself to anything and Paul isn’t going to just commit himself - Paul will go into it with his eyes wide open.
“[Last night] it was basically a team we played that hadn’t played at the weekend so lads like Marc Ó Sé and fellas like that who are just looking for game time - but I think he didn’t look out of place, he looked in good shape to be honest with you. He got a few scores.
“It’s a well known thing that Paul Galvin keeps himself in shape, he winters well.”
Galvin follows the likes of Eoin Brosnan and Mike McCarthy in coming out of retirement in recent years to return to the Kerry set-up. Both the aforementioned played prominent roles when repositioned in the Kerry half back line.
It’s unlikely the county or country will sit quietly as Galvin finds his place and role in this Kerry set-up though.
“The one thing I know from playing with Paul is that he is actually very passionate about Kerry football, and Paul wouldn’t make a decision like this without due consideration and if Paul is coming back he is well aware he is putting himself back on the shop window again so from that point of view it’s a big decision for him.
“Himself and Eamonn have discussed this and they’ve spoken about it so I expect them to kind of play it by year, I don’t expect him to be starting games or anything like that, and if it works out it works and if it doesn’t it doesn’t.
“I wouldn’t be saying it’s going to change Kerry’s season and Paul knows that as well - it’s going to be about what he can bring to the table and if he has something to bring then its a win win situation for Kerry.”
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Post by Mickmack on Mar 7, 2015 12:43:18 GMT
It must be a genuinely disturbing moment to accept you will never play in front of 30,000 in Fitzgerald Stadium again being used to it over a decade. Fitzgerald stadium is bigger than that. your analytical ability to find the key salient point is amazing!!
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Post by leesider on Mar 7, 2015 13:37:19 GMT
Just to add my tuppence worth (even though ye probably don't want to hear it);Fitzmaurice surely only intends to use Galvin as an impact sub.However bearing in mind the size of Galvin's ego,will he be content with that?I have my doubts.
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Post by Ballyfireside on Mar 7, 2015 14:22:44 GMT
The Galvin Fitzy relationship is similar to Shefflin with Cody and we saw on one occasion how they work when Henry was taking a match deciding free and had to decide on going for goal or a point. He looked over to Brian and who shrugged his shoulders, taking the pressure off. The Cats prevailed on the day.
Closeness is an advantage when trust and integrity are at the core and our pair are team players to the core. That they are also connected is better and the depth of expertise and emotional capital in that relationship means that Kerry in 2015 will be even better again with Paul.
And contrary to what a few pundits have said in the papers, we are not favourites to win Sam, Kerry are 3/1 and the Dubs are 11/8, i.e. we are double their price so we need to get everything right.
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Post by Mickmack on Mar 7, 2015 14:28:56 GMT
Kerry legend Pat Spillane has expressed major misgivings about the return of 2009 Footballer of the Year Paul Galvin to the Kerry fold after a year in the wilderness.
Having announced his retirement on the eve of Kerry’s opening Allianz Football League game in 2014, Galvin shocked the GAA world by resuming training with the Kingdom during the week.
Winner of eight All Ireland medals himself, Pat Spillane knows the pitfalls of not knowing when the time is right to call it a day, as he expressed to the Irish Indepenent:
“ The bottom line is I think, personally speaking, that it’s a major mistake.
I think it’s going to be a distraction. I think it’ll put awful pressure on his brother-in-law, who’s the manager, Eamonn Fitzmaurice. Paul is 35 and in his last two years with Kerry, 2012 and 2013, he had lost that vital yard of pace and I’m not too sure whether between 33 and 35 that you can get the pace back.
He’s a maverick, an independent man. He was a brilliant servant to Kerry. He was a warrior. I hope it works out but I have a bad feeling.
Drawing on his own experiences with the end of his career, the Templenoe man said:
“ The history of politicians and sportsmen normally end in failure and getting the last hurrah right is a very difficult decision. Most sports people get it wrong.
It was the only failing that Mick O’Dwyer had as a manager. Micko managed us to eight All-Irelands but he thought there was one last hurrah in us.
He said, ‘There’s one last hurrah’. The hardest year we ever trained was the last year. Old fellas. It was the last thing you should be doing because all our energy was left on the training field and we were good for nothing. We were destroyed in the Munster Championship by Cork.
You look at all the fellas that stayed on that year too long. I played until ’91 and if they asked me to stay in ’92 I’d have stayed but no one asked me. Jacko (O’Shea) stayed on till ’92 and he had stayed on a year too long.
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