I was at the very back of the Mackey stand and clattered my fucking mallet off the wall
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You are spot on but circumstances made it nigh on impossible for the dubs this year.
Head butting the wall isnât good for your health mike.
No no tisnât
I think the break is good, now that weâve got a win behind us. Gives you more time to iron out the flaws and really look at Cork at the weekend, try and isolate weaknesses.
If Cork lose against Tipp, itâs a slight dent to their confidence and a short turnaround. If they win, theyâll be on a high but Tipp are in serious trouble then.
I canât concur with the reading of the half back line yesterday, certainly not in the first half anyway. We won zero ball from rucks on the floor in that period. Tipp came out with the ball, a score or a free for nearly all of them. Kept them in the game, they went in a pot to the good sure.
Now, second half, different gravy. But we need to sort that out. Win it first, be calm, deliver it properly. They did all three very well in the second half.
Your mullet ??
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No @FatChops weâre not hearing it, Iâm afraid youâre not allowed offer any constructive criticism, youâre probably just trying to get all the Na Piarsaigh players started.
The whole team was very poor in first half at winning ground ball which was surprising as that was a strength in the league .
People need to realise the opening twenty minutes of the first championship game is going to be helter skeltor. Lads havenât played in six weeks and are waiting for ages for the game to come around. Nerves/excitement/freshness/overeagerness play a huge part. I didnât think the game settled down into a pattern until after the first tipp goal. From this point on we really settled down, played to our plan and dominated. Three of our first four bad wides came in this period and Iâll put that down to nerves on the day.
People need to realise in a 70 minute game against strong opposition you need to hit the ground running and be turned on and tuned in from the get-go. Anything else is excuses. If Tipp werenât as bad as they were yesterday weâd have struggled.
I take your point about nerves and that but tipp scored a good whack of their lot in that period. We canât afford a nervy start again.
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2 Finn: second season starting championship
3 Hickey: First start at 3 since 2011
4 English: First start since 2016
5 Brynes: First start since 2016
6 Hannon: Second season playing at 6
7 Morrissey: Second season starting at half back
8 O Donovan: First start since 2016
9 Lynch: first start since 2016
10: Hegarty: Second season starting
11 Hayes: First start at 11 and second season starting
12 Morrissey: Second season starting
13 Gillane: Championship debut
14 Flanagan: Championship debuy
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A team of novices. From our opening game v Clare last year weâve only four players left in the same positions. The potential is unreal.
Yes mate but its our first outing of the year. Can you point out any of teams that hit the ground running in the past two weeks? Nobody has. There is always a bedding in period.
Dublin fairly fucked into Kilkenny early doors
and lost
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You really have no foresight at all
Gilroy is 5 months in. He already has them competitive
DOD started in 2017.
Iâm pointing out maybe if theyâd given a toss in the league theyâd have closed out two games they were winning with five minutes to go. Iâm not saying he is doing a bad job.
Dublin did nothing in the opening 20 mins (hit the ground running/helter-skelter period/until the game settles down) to lose them the game.