Mike Casey impressed Anthony Daly yesterday he has wrote in the examiner. Galway game will be another test the other two now seem starters v Clare along with 3 across half back line. Stephen Cahill may get chance on Burke next day or maybe Hickey and somebody come in at 7
In what way did Casey impress him exactly??
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If I were him I’d hang the hurl up now, it couldn’t get any better than that surely.
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I taught Casey was rounded good few time by Cadogan, Dalo says Casey shut down the threat of Cadogan. The jury still out on Casey but options are limited back there maybe Condon the only one to come in or Hickey drop back
Sounded like Mulcahy had a lot of possessions, think O’Grady mentioned he must have been on the ball ten times in the first half. If you’re to be critical I think he needs a bit more in terms of outcomes, scores taken, frees won, passes, for the number the amount he’s on the ball.
Mulcahy gets on the ball a lot but he needs to return more from it. He’s a hardy lad and I think he gets a harsh doing from some of the supporters, but he got on the ball close to goal a couple of times yesterday, especially in the first half, and he has the pace to make his man really work, but instead turned back and pinged the ball back out to the 40. Sometimes it’s genuinely the right decision, but sometimes it feels like a cop out.
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Mulcahy out in front seems to be more setting up scores then scoring them now has a better touch then Nash so is ahead of him but Peter Casey may put pressure on him for a starting place Hego and Hayes currently two nailed on starters
I’d agree with that. I think Mulcahy is very good and has been terribly utilised in recent seasons and has taken some flak as a result.
But if he does have one flaw it’s he doesn’t take on his man enough. He has the pace to beat most backs. I know he’s not the strongest but sometimes you’d love to see him put the head down and go for goal. In 2011 & 2012, he used to do it a bit more, often got poleaxed.
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He needs the right kind of ball into him
What’s this? Confirmation please. Anyone?
Confirmed at lunch time
What?
For real?
Ah for duck sake. I hope you are living in China if you haven’t heard this by now.
Google just informed me. Thanks.
The most encouraging thing from the weekend is definitely to the return to form of Lynch. He has all the talent in the world, it’s just a matter of him utilising it correctly. Keep it simple, keep it efficient.
Hegarty’s performance is encouraging too but I’m not going to get too carried away yet. Realistically, Cork’s defence is like a grown-up version of Laois’; they are naive and so far from what a top defence should be. Galway again will be a much more realistic test of Hegarty. He’ll try his heart out and battle for you all day, but I don’t see him regularly scoring 4 points tbh. Some of the other forwards will have to step up in the scoring stakes though.
As for Byrnes wasting ball. If he gets them, he’s a hero. Other teams have this problem with some of their bigger names too- the amount of wides that Austin Gleeson & Tony Kelly hit, for example. Byrnes isn’t as talented as either of them but he is able to score from distance when he’s on his game. I think that if he is in space 65/70 metres out, a shot is fair enough. But he has to balance that with feeding the forwards with good ball. If you take the shot, you really have to be getting the score.
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Great to get another crack at Galway without having to go up to Thurles…hopefully its a cracking day and a big crowd head into it.
Yesterdays result was massive for this young panel, the performance was decent…but the manner of closing out a tight game was v pleasing…that along with the semblences of a plan beginning to unfold with the team selection/tactics from JK and Co is great to see.
V early days, but we badly needed that after two horrendous years were everyone knew we were going backwards.
Spot on
Maybe but we can’t say much with the way Tipp ran through us last year.