Is it a rule in sports journalism that you have to open with some sort of analogy, no matter how stretched it may be?
I like an anecdotal journalism style at times but I feel like Jackie is really stretching the analogy here, and for what?
Jackie is trying to make out heâs smarter than he is. In the end he just sounds like a simpleton.
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Sone 70s American coach really makes it look good .
His military analogies really bug me. They died with their boots on, trench warfare. Whoâs he kidding. Itâs soft as shit hurling. God be with the days when you could hit a fellow a proper slap.
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I donât know Jackie or the Kilkenny lads he played with personally, but I suspect a WhatsApp group exists where several of these players ridicule him for being full of it.
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Iâll be honest, my eyes glaze over when they use those references.
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Maybe he follows the Colin Fennelly view of the military and thinks thatâs gone soft as shit too.
(I actually have no problem with âtrench warfareâ and the likes; I think comparing losing an All-Ireland semi-final to not being able to underage drink in some nightclub is forced, at absolute best)
Prophetic
Told ye but ye wouldnât listen
Called it to a tee.
All the chipp cunts as we were leaving after the 2016 final - yere finished, ye wonât be back here for ten year.
3 years later 
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You got all of those wrong.
Good Chance of a replay
And 2007 too.
Fuck i hope wexford win tomorrow, the minors too so we can have the place to ourselves in a couple of weeks time.
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Ye have a few more rotten cunts supporting ye than most counties but ye are a great hurling county.
If cody was managing lk weâd probably win 4 or 5 of the next 6 AIs.
A remarkable man.
what he has instilled into lads who pull the stripes on is incredible, almost a part of the county dna at this stage.
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Huge congrats to the Kilkenny boys, better team on the day won
If we had cody wed have at least five all irelands this decade. What a fucking attitude they have
Will richie hogan start the final