OMFG.
Utterly insane. But at the same time, itâs remarkable to see how effective PR can be when you feed the media simple stats to regurgitate. I donât know how many times Iâve seen it repeated over the last two days.
Mark Dunphy playing a blinder there
Going by that- TJ Ryan has a 63% win rate in 2016 with Limerick⌠A very decent year.
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Itâs amazing to see how they have convinced half the country that the squad are actually quite useless, incapable of doing much better than reaching a quarter-final every 4/5 years, and that Davy is a misunderstood genius. All of this done under the cover of an apparent fierce commitment to âdefending them boysâ.
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I am pretty sure you could make a statistical argument that we have actually outperformed Kilkenny this year, wins per head of population or something similar.
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Anyone for now, Joe. Reestablishing the principle that the manager should be somewhat accountable for performances would be a great first step.
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Tgats what some Cork people (AND TUM) try to say about JBM and the Cork hurlers.
The fact is i donât think we have any idea how good the hurlers are in Cork. And i am convinced the same is true in Clare. Who have ability above most.
Lack a bit of size though. Tipp, Galway & KK have that. It takes very good tactics and training to hurl your way around those advantages. I donât think Davy got anywhere near it.
I doubt you can begin to understand how badly he has fucked up their conditioning work. Joe OâConnor walked away from it because he just couldnât stick it anymore. Open arguments with Davy on the training field because of Davy insisting on players doing long sprints when the session was supposed to be over. Endurance running being done the morning after evening strength sessions.
Of all the things he fails to understand, the worst is that he just doesnât understand recovery. He is of the ilk that believe mental strength is all and tiredness doesnât really exist. So flog the players relentlessly and they will be mentally strong on the big day. That players canât win a sprint for a ball, are getting rag-dolled by smaller opponents, are dying out of games despite doing endless endurance work all escapes his attention.
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Makes sense, thatâs what his team went through in the 90s and heâs trying to do the same?
Also, FAO @carryharry & @The_Most_Infamous
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That post makes alot of sense based on what I have seen of Clare in the past year or so.
Whatâs the story with the 31 back room staff?
How is that broken down?
Who pays for it?
I canât see another county touching him after this, so Iâd say he has to brazen it out. Although, based on comments to the media, he seems to think he is being badly wronged here with the criticism.
Itâs consistent with what he has done with every single team he has ever had, from the Clare U21s in the late 90s, to LIT, to his senior IC roles. That it is what he went through in the 90s is no excuse. Enough people have tried to convince him of the madness of it, to no avail. How long can a sane man continue to argue with a brick wall?
No teamâs hurling speeds up under him. Every side he manages turns into a plodding, one-paced team that can never find another gear when they need it. Just look at how Waterfordâs style of hurling changed under him. Speed doesnât develop under conditions of extreme fatigue. No one who knows what theyâre doing does speed work when players are exhausted.
Thatâs what is killing us under him, and why itâs so galling to see players who played as fast and exciting a style of hurling as weâve ever had turn into trundling robots. They are slow as fuck in everything they do. They think slow, they move slow, they hurl slow. We know why, but thereâs nothing we can do about it.
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Interesting. On the hurling slow part I would have thought that itâs somewhat because theyâre stymied by the âsystemsâ and overthinking things. It all adds up and makes sense though.
Makes @carryharry look a right fool too.
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Thatâs a pure red herring. The most a lot of them lads are getting is a free dinner here and there.
Thereâs a âwar chestâ in place, made up by some very generous donations. The expenses are off the chart.
Still, DOâC is hardly doing it for a free dinner.
The more you look at it, the more 2013 was the u21 setupâs AI.
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