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Post by glengael on Nov 14, 2022 11:42:27 GMT
Well now, that's an interesting stat. Crokes only beat them once so. In recent years, Nemo seem to fall away once they win out in Cork.
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Post by hurlingman on Nov 14, 2022 13:17:06 GMT
Well now, that's an interesting stat. Crokes only beat them once so. In recent years, Nemo seem to fall away once they win out in Cork. I think it was the only time a Kerry club beat them. |
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Post by wideball on Nov 14, 2022 15:59:13 GMT
Went to Pairc Ui Chaoimh last evening to participate in history. Munster had a fine win. Strange experience. Very loud tannoy, loud music , pyrotechnics, razzmatazz wall to wall. We are becoming annoyingly Americanized. Sadly , Croke Park is going that way as well. Years ago there was a detective series on TV based In New York known as Dragnet. When the boys on the ground reported to their superior they often tended to be a bit long winded and he reined them in by saying “ give me the facts, nothing but the facts “ . My plea when I go to a game is, “ give me the match, nothing but the match” . I think I prefer to watch rugby on TV because the commentator /co-commentator will usually tell you what is happening in the scrums , why penalties and yellow cards etc are being awards. Left to my own devices last evening I was totally in the dark. That detracted from my enjoyment. Also this silence for place kicking? Too civilized for me. Look, it is not a night out at the opera or the theatre. Atmosphere? Not within a hundred miles of say Kerry/Dublin or Kerry/Galway. Well Veteran, good to know there's another member of the Red Army around here. You read my mind exactly, the atmosphere was so odd wasn't it?? Couldn't get over it. 41k and barely a roar, the Fields of Athnery petered out rather pathetically after only 1 or 2 verses.
So strange, maybe it was just a lot of day-trippers
I was in attendence myself and have to agree, there was a lot of day-trippers. Hard to beat Thomond for atmosphere and I can't think of any game with a better atmosphere than Toulouse in the Aviva last year so perhaps the atmosphere was always going to come up short. PUC seems to be a fine stadium now, pity it will hardly ever get a full house. Do Cork county finals get played in PUC? |
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Post by thehermit on Nov 14, 2022 21:55:49 GMT
'Clifford factor' helps push Kerry GAA profits close to €1million': Commercial income and renegotiated sponsorship agreements rose from €354,000 in 2021 to €773,000 this year. Part of that has been the runaway success of the official Kerry GAA store
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Post by pintpleasejohn on Nov 14, 2022 21:57:16 GMT
Would anybody have eamonn fitzmaurice’s article on DC for the Examiner today? TIA
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Post by Ballyfireside on Nov 15, 2022 0:27:50 GMT
'Clifford factor' helps push Kerry GAA profits close to €1 million
Commercial income and renegotiated sponsorship agreements rose from €354,000 in 2021 to €773,000 this year. Part of that has been the runaway success of the official Kerry GAA store
AN All-Ireland title, the David Clifford factor and the end of Covid restrictions all helped push Kerry GAA profits close to one million euros in the past financial year, the county's annual convention will hear next week.
Treasurer Tom Keane reports a strong financial rebound, despite spending close to €1.45m on inter-county teams, with the senior footballers accounting for close to €850,000.
However, that drive to a 38th All-Ireland SFC title in July - a first in eight years - helped drive commercial growth for Kerry GAA, with a significant bounce in sales for Kerry gear and support for the Board's Win A House campaign. Having stellar talents such as David Clifford and Seanie O'Shea was also a factor in driving commercial and sports ware sales.
Commercial income and renegotiated sponsorship agreements rose from €354,000 in 2021 to €773,000 this year. Part of that has been the runaway success of the official Kerry GAA store in Killarney, which has delivered a net return for Kerry GAA of around €200,000. Royalties from Kerry sportswear surged from €133,000 to €547,000, due in no small part to having a number of the country's best know players driving interest inside and outside the county.
Treasurer Tom Keane said: "The key to this growth has been the impressive sales of team wear, including our new jersey which was released in January. The new jersey returned to a more traditional look with the whole design centered on the iconic Kerry crest.”
The Win a House in Killarney draw netted €286,000 with Mr Keane revealing they sold over 9,300 tickets. "We are happy with the figure,” he said.
The Treasurer said he was pleased that whenever money was required to be spent on Kerry teams, the board was not found wanting. Overall profits of just under €1m has risen from €505,000 in 2021.
"The end to the pandemic meant, in financial terms, that we saw a welcome return to fundraisers and alongside the positive upturn in merchandise sales of official Kerry GAA gear, has helped us reach very strong position at year’s end.”
The biggest profit areas were in gate receipts and live streaming income. Keane revealed that the cumulative figure just shy of €900,000 is a significant jump on the 2021 return of €226,000, even if accounting periods mean there is also income from late 2021 Championships.
On the thorny issue of cashless entrance to games, the Kerry treasurer said: “I acknowledge this did cause some concern for some really genuine and loyal supporters, and the provision of cash payment outlets on a limited basis did help. We are only one of three counties that provide a cash stile, but it will be a decision for the new executive if it will operate in 2023 as nationally, the policy is online only.”
Kerry’s divvy out from Croke Park for Championship, League and provincial games doubled from €362,000 in 2021 to €671,000 this year.
The total for team training expenses came to €1.445m, with both senior teams reaching the latter end of their respective All-Ireland championships. The minor and U20 footballers both reached All-Ireland semi-finals. The figure for training the Kerry senior footballers is €523,534, but extra expenditure on meals, accommodation, equipment and medical will bring that figure to around €850,000, Mr Keane estimated.
He also revealed Monday that work has already begun on the purchase of 7.5 acres adjoining the Centre of Excellence at Currans with a view to the development of the faciliity, most notably a 4G all-weather pitch.
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Post by Ballyfireside on Nov 15, 2022 0:32:17 GMT
Well Veteran, good to know there's another member of the Red Army around here. You read my mind exactly, the atmosphere was so odd wasn't it?? Couldn't get over it. 41k and barely a roar, the Fields of Athnery petered out rather pathetically after only 1 or 2 verses. So strange, maybe it was just a lot of day-trippers
I was in attendence myself and have to agree, there was a lot of day-trippers. Hard to beat Thomond for atmosphere and I can't think of any game with a better atmosphere than Toulouse in the Aviva last year so perhaps the atmosphere was always going to come up short. PUC seems to be a fine stadium now, pity it will hardly ever get a full house. Do Cork county finals get played in PUC? Must be the commentary then because TV was an amazing experience, add in the local factor and overall it was on a par with vs S Africa IMHO. |
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Post by Mickmack on Nov 16, 2022 8:15:25 GMT
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Post by veteran on Nov 16, 2022 17:13:17 GMT
I notice that Kevin Walsh has been appointed coach to the Cork footballers.
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Post by glengael on Nov 16, 2022 17:22:28 GMT
I notice that Kevin Walsh has been appointed coach to the Cork footballers. Interesting development. |
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Post by horsebox77 on Nov 16, 2022 19:14:04 GMT
Michael Murphy just announced retirement from inter county ball.
What a player... Class act
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Post by thehermit on Nov 16, 2022 19:14:07 GMT
A sad day for Donegal and all lovers of Gaelic football in general. What a baller. If they two of him in his pomp Jimmy would have won a lot more than 1 title!
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Post by ciarraimick on Nov 16, 2022 21:14:45 GMT
Michael Murphy just announced retirement from inter county ball. What a player... Class act A truly great footballer. A player I really enjoyed watching. He will be missed by many. A giant amongst men. Hope Michael has a great retirement. |
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Post by horsebox77 on Nov 16, 2022 23:01:02 GMT
I notice that Kevin Walsh has been appointed coach to the Cork footballers. I always rated Cleary and felt he was overlooked on too many occasions post his success with the U21's. Cork will be inns better place with Cleary at the helm and he is surrounding himself with very astute and learned people on the sideline This in turn boosts Kerry as we need a viable challenge in Munster, it's all aces as bar the smash and grab of 2020 it's been all one way traffic. |
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Post by hurlingman on Nov 17, 2022 8:10:26 GMT
A sad day for Donegal and all lovers of Gaelic football in general. What a baller. If they two of him in his pomp Jimmy would have won a lot more than 1 title! An interesting stat. When he became Donegal captain in 2011 they had won 5 Ulster titles. By the time he'd retired he'd captained them to 5 titles. |
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Post by homerj on Nov 17, 2022 11:25:19 GMT
A sad day for Donegal and all lovers of Gaelic football in general. What a baller. If they two of him in his pomp Jimmy would have won a lot more than 1 title! An interesting stat. When he became Donegal captain in 2011 they had won 5 Ulster titles. By the time he'd retired he'd captained them to 5 titles. in fairness, there is more to them than just him, they probably overall have had the best crop of players in their history, over the last 10-12 years, top quality players all over the pitch. 2014 he never turned up for them in AI final and we still were only the width of a post in the last minute from a draw. |
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Post by Ballyfireside on Nov 17, 2022 12:03:14 GMT
An interesting stat. When he became Donegal captain in 2011 they had won 5 Ulster titles. By the time he'd retired he'd captained them to 5 titles. in fairness, there is more to them than just him, they probably overall have had the best crop of players in their history, over the last 10-12 years, top quality players all over the pitch. 2014 he never turned up for them in AI final and we still were only the width of a post in the last minute from a draw. That early goal vs Mayo in their AI final victory in '12 had him as a natural leader as well as captain at the age of 22, all a full 20 years after their '92 breakthrough - then 5 Ulsters, doubling Donegal's take of both Cups. Probably the best ever team just preceded the Murphy era, the '2 suits of clothes' brigade and maybe that's why they didn't realise their potential. In fairness Mike did turn up in '14 but so too did a certain reconditioned, souped up, AO'M - what they had in common proved decisive on the day and Murphy wasn't helped by Éamonn's tactical homework nor the ref's view that the doctor was entitled to a dose of his own medicine. Dgal were favourites and maybe believed they just had to, well turn up, but never Michael - he was the central plank, turning up everywhere and anywhere. There were many days, maybe moments, when he alone was worth the gate money. He and maybe with the help of McGuinness may have tipped the balance back to GAA vs soccer in Dgal, in the Letterkenny anyway I think. Having studied him a bit, what I noticed was that once he collected the ball, say typically having dropped back to defence, the team then, maybe even unaware, appeared to change form, reformed, took a new shape - Murphy has it now so we revert to our default plan; and so drove on, charged forward, him laying it off, interlinking, often nudging the scoreboard at the end of a movement he initiated. Once the penny dropped here with me it was awesome to watch, anticipating, will it or won't it happen, how many times will we see it today, vs Mayo in Ballybofey was classic - it was great traditional football and purist Mayo was conductive to such, well purist skill. There is an air of secrecy about where things are now - is Carr 'a front?' Was Bonar the same? I think Mike needs a break but then 'bird in the hand' - he has a strong powerbase in the camp, maybe he holds the balance of power, ala Jackie Healy-Rae Snr scenario! I'm not so sure he will stop rallying the troops and where such a role leads is anyone's guess. I'll keep my own notions to myself thank you, in case I am right - don't want to add to the plight of an already uninformed, maybe confused, supporter community. So well done Mike and thanks for the ceoil, it was sweet and intriguing, and a lot more. |
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Post by Jo90 on Nov 18, 2022 16:55:02 GMT
Went to Pairc Ui Chaoimh last evening to participate in history. Munster had a fine win. Strange experience. Very loud tannoy, loud music , pyrotechnics, razzmatazz wall to wall. We are becoming annoyingly Americanized. Sadly , Croke Park is going that way as well. Years ago there was a detective series on TV based In New York known as Dragnet. When the boys on the ground reported to their superior they often tended to be a bit long winded and he reined them in by saying “ give me the facts, nothing but the facts “ . My plea when I go to a game is, “ give me the match, nothing but the match” . I think I prefer to watch rugby on TV because the commentator /co-commentator will usually tell you what is happening in the scrums , why penalties and yellow cards etc are being awards. Left to my own devices last evening I was totally in the dark. That detracted from my enjoyment. Also this silence for place kicking? Too civilized for me. Look, it is not a night out at the opera or the theatre. Atmosphere? Not within a hundred miles of say Kerry/Dublin or Kerry/Galway. I believe it was the first time supporters wearing red have left the new Páirc Uí Chaoimh in a happy mood! |
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Post by Ballyfireside on Nov 21, 2022 0:03:25 GMT
Be jazus but the bulls out of that world cup gang - 'we are all one tribe' - such contradiction, if we were there wouldn't be a tribe let alone tribes.
Thank God for the small mercies we have in tribal GAA land - it would be so uncharacteristic of our own tribesmen to drop the chins though as MOM might say, there's always wan!
Still I hope our Arab neighbours can recover the situation to do justice to mankind as he endeavours to excel on a world stage.
Sean Kelly was right though - FIFA should return the bribes.
The concern must be how a major decision will be dealt with and the first day didn't look so great - there latchicos have been known to call the team off the field if they disagree with the ref. Can you just imagine wan of 'em gettin a right crack of hurley, better still the hook end up the skirt - no need to call 'em off, the poor hoors would be driven into the middle of next week!
Reminds of a statement for them complaining that horse ownership didn't even begin to stack up as a business - hey sheiks, 'tis a sport and yer winning the derby is like what we call a bad wake! Take a leaf out of our Bosco's book - win a donkey derby and the beer flows out the door!
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Post by hurlingman on Nov 21, 2022 9:05:09 GMT
hoganstand.com/Article/Index/325781New York set to return to senior hurling next year. Interesting to note a big Kerry connection involved. Richie Hartnett is the manager and Eamonn Fitzgerald is also involved.
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Post by glengael on Nov 21, 2022 10:40:00 GMT
Sad to see Michael Murphy go. He was a leader for Donegal long before he was captain. How many of the 2012 team are still involved I wonder at inter county level? What is Jim McGuinness at these days?
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Post by thehermit on Nov 21, 2022 19:43:37 GMT
Sad to see Michael Murphy go. He was a leader for Donegal long before he was captain. How many of the 2012 team are still involved I wonder at inter county level? What is Jim McGuinness at these days? Coaching underage with Derry FC, think he's there U20? manager. |
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Post by Ballyfireside on Nov 21, 2022 21:17:41 GMT
Sad to see Michael Murphy go. He was a leader for Donegal long before he was captain. How many of the 2012 team are still involved I wonder at inter county level? What is Jim McGuinness at these days? Coaching underage with Derry FC, think he's there U20? manager. Anthony Molloy said they couldn't afford not to appoint Jim for a second stint and while TCB apparently met him, Jim says he is waiting for the right opportunity and it looks like his focus is on soccer. How effective would he be without 'the system' and which isn't so pretty on a CV these days. |
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Post by Ballyfireside on Nov 21, 2022 23:32:29 GMT
Lyster good on RTE tonight, good debate on pooling sponsorship.
Shane Dowling ran out of steam a bit but meanwhile the seeds of 'the best to never win a Celtic Cross' remain in fertile ground.
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Post by glengael on Dec 2, 2022 9:41:02 GMT
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Post by Ballyfireside on Dec 3, 2022 10:25:42 GMT
WOW, a good wan here, extended but be patient, explains things behind closed doors, well worth the ride!
Trusting others, getting into players’ heads and not resting on your laurels – Jack O’Connor reflects on Kerry glory
The four-time All-Ireland-winning manager explains how he has been a different man during his third coming in the Kingdom - showing more courage to let others do their jobs
Jack O’Connor admits he reacts well when he has calm people around him, as if he was in need of some sort of balance that Diarmuid Murphy and Mike Quirke – his Kerry selectors this year and paragons of serenity – could bring.
Yet the irony is that in his third coming as the county’s senior manager, he has never projected a calmer presence in the position himself. Jack III is altogether different than the two previous versions.
By his own admission, the obsession, even the abruptness of old that he acknowledges was once there, has subsided. He’s much more relaxed about what blows in from the outside and even what swirls around within Kerry.
How else could he have countenanced bringing Paddy Tally, from Tyrone of all places, on board as the team’s coach in the first place if he was worried about the local decibel levels?
The man who once portrayed himself as an outsider is very much on the inside now. Kerry’s port in a storm who got the ship to shore after a turbulent few years in Dublin’s slipstream. O’Connor may not have the All-Ireland medals but he has the gravitas to match most collections.
The enjoyment derived from a fourth All-Ireland title as manager this summer past perhaps surpassed anything of the previous wins.
Maybe it was the distance since their last, eight years, and the relief that all of Kerry would have felt. Or just his own state of mind.
All the towns visited left their impression that week but Kenmare on the Wednesday after the All-Ireland final looms largest now in the memory.
They met at the golf club on the outskirts of town and walked in behind a band. Beautiful summer’s evening, huge crowds, smiling faces. Bliss.
“Experiences like that stay with you and hopefully (they are) ones that drive the players on to want more of it. That’s when Kerry shows a fervour and feeling for football that is hard to match. It was all just great fun this year,” he says.
He’s different and the job is different too. Delegation was an imperative compared to his previous stints. And in that respect, going to Kildare for two years helped. Thus, he was happy to let Quirke, Murphy, Tally and others get on with it.
“Last time, I was doing a lot of stuff, whereas now, I’m overseeing others doing the work, now and again putting my own stamp on it if I could.
“Having the courage to let other people at it, that’s the trick, to pick good people (Quirke and Tally are previous inter-county managers, Murphy has a raft of experience under O’Connor and Eamonn Fitzmaurice) and give them the autonomy to do the job. But at the same time, there has to be some of your own stamp on it. Otherwise, what’s the point?”
What hasn’t changed is his knack for pragmatism, recognising a problem and finding solutions to fix it.
There should be something more complex to how Kerry planted their flag at the top again in 2022 but there isn’t really, he insists now. Kerry’s problem this time last year was just that they were conceding too many goals.
“Kerry were very close, no question about it. But in the two, what you would call big games the year before, the Tyrone semi-final and the league game against Dublin – they’d be seen as the big hitters – seven goals were conceded. That had to be our starting point. That couldn’t go on. You can’t be involved in shoot-outs. Now there is no question that Kerry can win shoot-outs because we have firepower. But it’s a high-risk strategy.
“I was fairly certain that Paddy would bring a structure to the team when we didn’t have the ball which was very important, a structure that we didn’t have before. We still wanted to maintain our own traditions of playing good football when we have the ball but without the ball, I thought Kerry were lacking a bit of structure, a bit of organisation.”
Retirement from teaching gave him time to communicate more and to travel the county and sit, often for up to an hour, with each of the players they had in mind for the squad.
“You wouldn’t be meeting much more than one player a day, two max,” he recalls. “And from my neck of the woods I’d have to drive an hour, an hour-and-a-half to meet most of them because we’re out on the Iveragh Peninsula and a good bit from anywhere. So that takes a bit of time and energy. It’s not just a cursory conversation. You were really trying to get into the players’ heads and listen to what they have to say. And listen more than talk to them.”
It was on that circuit that the seed for one of the ideas to make themselves harder to beat was sown. In Templenoe, Tadhg Morley made it clear how hungry and driven he would be in the new order.
“I’d have known that Tadhg was very frustrated with the way the year before had gone for him. He had a stop-start season. Just things didn’t run for him.
“I’d have listened to him to hear what he thought his strengths were and we came to the conclusion that Kerry needed an organiser at centre-back anyway. Tadhg is a good man to talk, a good leader, a young man who had to grow up quickly. He lost his father when he was young himself in an accident so he would have matured quickly and become a leader in his own life.
“We felt that defence needs that type of an orchestrator and that other players would benefit from that and grow from that. And that was proven by the way that Jason Foley flourished.
“The whole of the management would have an input into this, but I would have made them aware that this was the way that Tadhg was feeling. The value of communicating with players was really brought home to me this year.
“If there was a player going through a sticky patch I’d certainly go and meet them and just get inside their head and see what was going on.
“A player like Graham O’Sullivan, he’d be from my own club (Dromid Pearses). It was his fourth year in the set-up but he still hadn’t made the breakthrough. I would have had a couple of long conversations and told him what I feel he needed to do to drive on and listen to what he felt was holding him back. That’s invaluable, then you have a good starting point that you know what’s going on rather than depending on instinct.”
Morley performed the role of sweeper/organiser to a tee and ended with a first All-Star, O’Sullivan wasn’t too far behind him. They road-tested their new systems through the league and derived much from the scenarios that would play out later that summer.
Dublin in Tralee and Armagh in the Athletic Grounds were signature wins, but for O’Connor, the evening they beat Mayo in Tralee had arguably more significance than any.
“That was probably the game that gave me most satisfaction because, with 10 minutes to go, Mayo had drawn level with a hurricane behind them and we didn’t seem to be catching any breaks. We dug in and worked the last move, very much like the Dublin game in the championship, we drew a free and pointed it. That felt at the time like a big win, a game we referred back to.
“Games you win that you just as easily could have lost. They are the games you draw upon. You can be talking until the cows come home but unless you have the evidence that you can win tight games, then the players will find it difficult to see how they can.”
It became a common refrain through the season for them and manifested spectacularly to their benefit in the All-Ireland semi-final.
“That was one of the benefits of bringing in Tony Griffin (as performance coach), to work on the resilience and belief of the lads. Paddy and the rest of us would be big into that as well, not doing anything crazy, just sticking to the plan.
“You’d have to give huge credit that day to the likes of Shane Ryan, the other defenders like Brian Ó Beaglaoich and a few of them that showed very hard for those kick-outs.
“When a team has momentum like Dublin had that day, the last thing you want to do is bate it out to the middle of the field and put it up for grabs. So it was crucial. The best way of taking the sting out of a game is to get your hands on the ball and if you have it you are controlling it. I thought that showed a lot of mettle and a lot of nerve. It was obviously crucial.
“Even Paul Murphy having the nerve to kick a 40-yard pass. Others might have kept the ball and see out the last few seconds.
“In the overall context I thought we deserved to win the game but we could quite as easily have lost it,” he says, notwithstanding Seán O’Shea’s “kick for the ages” that had so many variables, from fatigue, to wind, to pressure, potentially against him.
As Kerry manager through the different phases, he’s now had two of the greatest forwards of all time on his watch. The one common denominator between Colm Cooper then and David Clifford now, he says, is that neither needed to be coached.
“In fact you would be using them to coach the lads around them. I never had to give directions to ‘Gooch’. I’d be picking his brains looking for ideas myself. It’s the same with David now, sure the great players are a couple of steps ahead.”
In the minutes after the All-Ireland final O’Connor even went down to the Hill end to stand at the spot where Clifford had kicked that crucial free to put them ahead late on – the first of four points that saw them home – just to appreciate what he faced.
“I often wonder how the whole razzmatazz around him doesn’t affect him, but he has a remarkable temperament, a very stable lad, just has the ability to put on the blinkers when it matters and blot out all the outside stuff.
“I’ve seen plenty of defenders trying to get inside his head and try to upset him but it only seems to make him better.
“We used to say down here in south Kerry that the last thing you do with Declan O’Sullivan was aggravate him because he only really got going then. It’s like that with David.
“I would have even seen in club games, he might be beaten to the ball and fellas would start talking to him and I’d say to someone beside me, ‘he’s after making a big mistake there’. A bit like (Pádraig) O’Hora in the league final.”
The split season has suited him, allowing sufficient down time to park everything before the rush.
The one downside? Two weeks is not enough time to incorporate everything in the lead-up to an All-Ireland final. A problem he appreciates and with time so precious it will fall on deaf ears, but still, there are promotional obligations to live up to too.
“It’s too intense. You’re talking about amateur people and there is a lot to do in the preparation of an All-Ireland final. We had a press day four days after the Dublin game and they are full-on, I must have done 20-odd different interviews that day. That’s a lot of interviews packed into three hours. People are trying to publicise the game and we all have an obligation to play our part in that, but, by the end of it I didn’t know whether I was speaking English or Irish!
“And then you have the whole thing around organising suits and accommodation. It’s just very intense for a two-week turnaround. I would say three weeks would be ideal. But maybe the time isn’t there.”
It’s four-and-a-half months on and the loose ends from last season are being tied up as a new season begins to appear on the horizon. Last weekend, four sets of medals were presented. This weekend they set off on their team holiday to Dubai and Mauritius. At least most of them will.
For a few, the never-ending season trundles on with the Fossa, Rathmore and Kerins O’Rahillys players still engaged in their respective Munster club championships. For Kerry’s management, it’s an obvious concern with a view to next year.
David Clifford’s next game will be his 32nd this year, for brother Paudie it will be his 30th. Some, wrongly, attribute this to the split season but, as O’Connor points out, there are three championships in Kerry, most other counties have just one. Once they are winning, the games just keep coming.
“Local championship can be as attritional as anything because it is usually played in bad weather. It’s great for developing players, but for the county player it can be tough going, something that will have to be monitored going into next year.
“Of course it does concern me,” he says. “We could have anything up to seven or eight players going into next year with significant enough injuries. We could be relatively experimental in the early rounds of the league.”
For all his calmness and the enjoyment derived from All-Ireland No 4, there’s an edginess again to embrace what’s coming.
He’s had both hips ‘done’ at the same time in the off season and the challenge of a first successful All-Ireland defence as manager now awaits.
“Tom Brady was once asked what his favourite Super Bowl win was and his reply was ‘the next one’. In Kerry, you don’t get to rest on your laurels.”
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Post by thehermit on Dec 3, 2022 11:46:20 GMT
Bally a Donegal friend sent me this on: Kerry v Donegal first round of 1984 Centenary Cup in Ballybofee,April 1984:
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Post by horsebox77 on Dec 3, 2022 18:29:29 GMT
At brilliant Hermit, there are some cracking old games on utube funnily enough most involve northern opposition.
The full 85 semi vs Monaghan is there, along with the U21 final and final replay of 1987 vs Donegal.
The Munster Final of 76 - full game is also there.
There is a 1982 or 83 league game too vs Armagh in what looks like a club ground.. picture jumps now and again but still nostalgic viewing.
You down and heading to Bally tmw? The County C'ship Winning Minor panel is being introduced to the crowd at HT - the proper way to do it as opposed to the pro-Emmetts fiasco that happened in the square when Sam arrived
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kerryexile
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Post by kerryexile on Dec 4, 2022 0:20:28 GMT
WOW, a good wan here, extended but be patient, explains things behind closed doors, well worth the ride! Trusting others, getting into players’ heads and not resting on your laurels – Jack O’Connor reflects on Kerry gloryThe four-time All-Ireland-winning manager explains how he has been a different man during his third coming in the Kingdom - showing more courage to let others do their jobs
Jack O’Connor admits he reacts well when he has calm people around him, as if he was in need of some sort of balance that Diarmuid Murphy and Mike Quirke – his Kerry selectors this year and paragons of serenity – could bring............ Thanks for posting that Bally. Jack is mellowing with the years. |
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