Devine will take serious watching not sure how our FBs will cover him in the air.
Leave him catch it and then bottle him up. He isnât blessed with a huge amount of hurling.
You canât be worried about Tom Devine if you plan on taking on Galway and having a chance. They have 6 tom devines
Fair comment.
The sisters of mercy would bate Tipp !!
Devine isnât blessed ???
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tabloid headline writers dream that lad.
devine intervention
Iâm shit. Whoâs got more
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I presume all will be revealed around 9pm?
Thatâs been the case so far. Iâd imagine itâll 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
Iâd be saying the opposite tbh. Stop him catching it if at all possible. Donât compete with him, bat everything down, take the fingers off him if necessary.
He doesnât have a whole pile of hurling but heâll just run straight through defenders. Refs tend to give frees to forwards who do that. The minute he catches it youâre on the back foot.
Iâd 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
youâre competing by nature of trying to bat it down. Youâre fucked then if he catches it anyway cos the man on him will probably be off balance. Unless youâve one man contest and another minding the house.
If heâs isolated donât 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 whstâs the correct pronunciation of Devine? Is it âDeveenâ or is it Devine as in John Devine the footballer?
Theyâd 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. Iâd 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 didnât 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 youâd be able to tell if a fella was gassed if he was leaning on the hurley.
I must say itâs incredibly impressive the level of detail involved in Kielyâs 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.
âlook the numbers are hereâ. 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 havenât caught the eye havenât been involved and arenât getting the ball so invariably have more left in the tank
I disagree strongly tbh.