He has great genetics and his surroundings meant iron sharpened iron. However if he doesnât hone his skills against the wall there is nothing to sharpen.
All the elite field sport players have elite technique and that is honed on their own. Niall Quinn was about to be fucked out at Arsenal before he improved his touch spending hours at the ball wall. Hego the same with Limerick.
Thereâs no point opening any textbooks while studying for the Leaving, youâll never replicate the intensity of the exam hall. Just keep doing the same exam questions over and over, doesnât matter what you write, but do time it.
This goes for any exam actually. I donât want some nerd surgeon doing things technically correctly, I want a lad who will work with intensity and itâll be a quick death if it comes to it. Also when building a house, you obviously put the roof on first and then get underneath it with great intensity based on games.
Is it a bit like ensuring your soccer team has good structural integrity by having loads of weight-bearing centre-halves up through the middle?
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Slaughtneil hurlers were at nothing until they emulated dungivens reliance on bating a ball offa a wall. In fact they refined the habit further by bating it offa a stone wall.
The gains were exponential
Did Richie have great genetics? Incredibly elusive but a diminutive fella. You wouldnât see too many lads of his height thriving on the inter-county scene. Particularly out around the middle where he played his best hurling (2014-15). Now youâd have WOD body checking him on the regular.
Not the biggest but super balance and a serious engine. Iâd say he is pretty gifted.
Itâs awesome how @caoimhaoin still haunts this place, even lads who werenât posting here while he was among us, mad though 
Wow, some lads would want to listen to this, 14 years ago
Itâs totally bananas behaviour. They should be in the pub with Malarkey
Congratulations 
https://twitter.com/offtheball/status/1861763153698197545?s=46
I canât believe this chap isnât from cork
He took Tinryland to two senior football finals in Carlow playing ultra-defensive football (they lost both). He managed Raheny for a while too. Possibly wasting a couple of years for a generation they may never have again. I didnât realise that Brian Fentonâs age group won everything at U12âs, U14âs etc. until Ciaran Whelan said it last week. Itâs only the last 2-3 years that theyâve got any kind of traction at senior level.
Who is that fella?
Stevie Oâ Meara. I think heâs from Raheny. Saw an interview before where he was speaking of them as we. Kind of bragging about how he managed Fento and Howardâs load after a long inter-county season. I think he mightâve been in a Carlow set-up with FOTF Stevie Poacher.
Oh thereâs a clip of Parkinsons lashing into him about trying to find holes to exploit in the new rules
Heâs an absolute weirdo
How did he get on with Raheny?
He definitely has a point that if they are a bringing in the two pointer it has to be 4 for a goal.
Agree. If they go 3, 2 and 1 goals will be considerably less valuable than they currently are which will mean less goals scored or even attempted.