I generally support Galway against Tipperary given that I have more connections to Galway, such as living here and coming here every Christmas and summer since I was born, but the majority of the Galway posters on here are absolute neanderthals (if youâre a Galway poster and believe youâre the target of this jibe you probably are, if youâre a Galway poster but believe you arenât the target of this jibe you probably arenât) whereas the Tipp lads are generally pretty sound. And my grandfather who I never met was from Cahir.
Tough one.
Iâll probably say Galway, but all the same itâll be terribly funny if they lose.
Bill Cooper has pretty much spent the whole summer picking up the oppositions centre forward when he has drifted allowing Mark Ellis sit and hold the middle of the Cork defence. Yet I doubt would accuse Cork of playing a sweeper.
Given how fit players are, the emphasis to carry the ball into contact and how teams commit men between the 40s there is normally very little space and out and out man marking between midfielders doesnât really occur. Just because a back holds his position when his man moves out the field that doesnât make him a sweeper. Kilkennyâs dominance at half back was driven by their three half backs staying in situ and a massive work rate from their half forwards close space and pick up/close down any free men or forwards forwards drifting out the field.
Could be a while before @TreatyStones replies. Heâs on his way to IKEA and heâs heading for a faerie stone in a field outside Kilconnell after that.
He is far more of a âspoilerâ thsn TDB and nothing like as good a distributor or hurler so isnt half as obvious. But youâre right he is essentially a sweeper but of midfield area more than anything. Hes been used v well really and role really suits him
