Things are not happening for Flanagan really since the Cork game but from my perch in the Hogan on the 21 yard line at the Davin end his movement off the ball in the first half was sensational and he ran himself into the ground. The Dow simply canāt do what our starting FF line for say the first 40 - 45 mins but I feel he should be coming on around 45 - 50 mins and only in the half forward line.
Same with P Casey he simply canāt dislodge mul and Gillane but will be raring to go when he comes on. I felt Hego started to tire with 10 to 15 to go but had put in a monumental shift. To summarise same team tell the forwards to work like dogs and hopefully the cavalry will arrive to finish the jobš
Nail on the head Flanagan softens them up and the Dow finishes them off. Like a tag team. Flanagan set up the goal, won a free, scored a point and won a great ball back to set up a score for mul.
Really? Of course Cork being spent was an influence, but two minutes later with either of those substitutions and the game was gone from us, thereās no question of that. We barely salvaged it as it was. That was definitely a risk, knife edge stuff.
I just landed back into limerick and bumped into a few squad members. All excited and looking forward to the final. They know the job ahead of them in the next three weeks. Fantastic group of men. Theyāve been asked to stay of social media too. We canāt let clowns derail this train.
I have a load of them at home, when we bought the house there was a collection of important newspapers and we asked the sellers (daughters of the deceased owner) if they wanted them and they said we could have them, moon landing, JFK, pope in Ireland and of course 1973
