Fair comment.
The sisters of mercy would bate Tipp !!
Devine isnāt blessed ???
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tabloid headline writers dream that lad.
devine intervention
Iām shit. Whoās got more
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I presume all will be revealed around 9pm?
Thatās been the case so far. Iād imagine itāll be named after training.
9pm tomorrow?
The other side of that is Limerick have way more pace than Galway, our forward unit and backs are quicker than their Galway counterparts. We are in the first stage of becoming a really good side. None of the Galway forwards have gears like Hegarty, Hayes, Flanagan, Mulcahy, Pat Simon, Barry Murphy. The exception is Concannon and Whelan to an extent.
that is also a fair comment. good and positive too.
manage Tom Devine on Sunday and we can start thinking about managing the 6 of them after
Iād be saying the opposite tbh. Stop him catching it if at all possible. Donāt compete with him, bat everything down, take the fingers off him if necessary.
He doesnāt have a whole pile of hurling but heāll just run straight through defenders. Refs tend to give frees to forwards who do that. The minute he catches it youāre on the back foot.
Iād favour our backs to put on the pressure and sweep up if we can stop him catching it clean.
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Devine is a poor mans dowling
youāre competing by nature of trying to bat it down. Youāre fucked then if he catches it anyway cos the man on him will probably be off balance. Unless youāve one man contest and another minding the house.
If heās isolated donāt compete, stand on one side and force him away from goal. if he tries to plough through take your chances with the ref
@Fagan_ODowd whstās the correct pronunciation of Devine? Is it āDeveenā or is it Devine as in John Devine the footballer?
Theyād be monitoring total distance but more so how it was ran, sprint distance and distance per minute over the match. My mate does it for the Clare footballers. Iād say limerick have budget enough to be monitoring heart rate too. They have a fair idea over a season from monitoring matches and training sessions how much a player has in the tank, what type of load they can reach before picking up injuries etc. They also know from the readings what match intensity looks like so they can try to match that in training with speed and intensity of drills etc.
Some of the subs in the first game especially didnāt strike me as being based on form, must have been based on monitor readings is my guess.
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god be with the days when youād be able to tell if a fella was gassed if he was leaning on the hurley.
I must say itās incredibly impressive the level of detail involved in Kielyās approach. A scientific approach to substitutions is impressive. It removes the need for a conflab between selectors, removes responsibility for selection from management and is an area of conflict removed from a historically tricky subject.
ālook the numbers are hereā. no arguing.
that makes perfect sense when you think about it logically. the lads who are involved more are catching the eye so it looks like they are playing well (and probably are). getting on loads of ball and running like fuck
the lads who havenāt caught the eye havenāt been involved and arenāt getting the ball so invariably have more left in the tank
I disagree strongly tbh.
no harm in that.
i think this discussion is pointless anyway. Casey has marked men as big as him and never been found wanting.
On Dempsey, Kiely liked him at corner forward last year, he has liked having guys who are strong in the air in at corner forward. Dempsey can do a job there but heās better suited to half forward or even full. Have heard heās flying and pushing for inclusion but I canāt see the starting half forward line changing. Dempsey unlucky not to get on the ball more on his time so far, Iād like to see him get in a bit earlier. Smashing player to have to come in.
Possibly yeah. Hadnāt thought of it that way actually.