He will.
His GAA itinerary for 11 days will be;
Belfast - Cork - Waterford - Mullingar - Ennis
Looking at the Limerick fc fixtures, he can double up Cabinteely in Dublin on Friday night before hitting for Belfast on Saturday and a trip to Waterford on Fri 8th will round out a hectic 14 days as a road warrior
Gavin was providing no cover at all to the full back position. This should have been his number one priority. Was he told this I wonder?
Three minutes injury time was very little considering the amount of times the Tipp physio was on the pitch. Then to cap things off Tipp put on two subs in injury time. No problem with that but the ref needs to be instructed to add another 30 seconds per sub like in soccer, but Iām not sure he can do this within the present rules.
John Fitzgibbon takes his point when LK are 6 points down with 30 seconds to go. It was like āIām getting my name on the score sheet ladsā and feck ye. This is the mentality he has always has, and it needs to be knocked out of him.
For a game that was crying out for a LK goal they took too long to bring on Kevin Downes. Then when he did get on, he got no ball.
The length of time for hawk eye yesterday was farcical as well. Easily two minutes to be added on there alone, but talking about that is only glossing over the fact that we were utterly inept against 14 men
Players
Morrissey failed to control the ball for the first goal and badly lost his position on Callanan for the 2nd goal. Callanan scored the 3rd goal from a clear shot, and Morrissey was meant to mark him tightly as the opposition danger man.
he had a bad day
Management
The whactics did not work. There was no aim in how ball was delivered to the forwards and I can recall just two attempts to pass the ball in the midfield area to create a point-scoring chance. Cian Lynchās runs were one-man efforts.
It is clear that they were told to hit in long and see what happened. However the 14 inside never wins a long or high ball so WTF?
Hegarty did not work out at half forward. They picked a big man to blot out Paudie Maher and proceeded to have every ball hit down the other side. They might as well have had a scoring forward in the position running to take secondary possession.
Tipp have their own problems. The forwards scored just 1-5 from play and wasted a large amount of possession. Management made no change on a 14 man team until the 60th minute and made a bizarre double substitution at midfield at the start of injury time. The supporters are nervous about Ronan Maher holding the middle, he does not have the athleticism.
For the part of the first half where we had the spare man Gavin played a sweeper role almost in front of the half backs. I can only assume this was the strategy.
Once the second half started he went right back into the full back line and did make a big difference there tightening things up and cutting out a lot of ball.
With ten minutes to go though and we six points down he should have been cut lose to go forward, maybe even into the forwards, but management were concerned with face saving at that stage rather than trying to win.
Iām a bit wary of the accuracy of hawkeye - again the umpires were rubbish, soon theyāll be made redundant. The amount of times they go for hawkeye now shows that these clowns hadnāt a clue for years
The second hawkeye too a full 60 seconds to deliver a result. And everyone at the game thought the ball was over the bar in the first place except for the umpire.
Has a throw in time been confirmed for next Saturday in Belfast for the football qualifier?
And is the intermediate final definitely on in Ennis?
I donāt think Iāll make Walsh Park for the minor semi final, sadly. Will be at the u21 the night before though.
So sickened by that display yesterday Iām pondering not going to Mullingar. Have a 30th on that Saturday night so depending on date and throw in time that could be it for me and the hurlers for the year
The sooner we get put out of our misery the better for the seniors, the minors and 21s would be the priority now, would be great to get a few games into the minors and get to croke park cos we need another influx tigether with the 2013/14 minors to get near to where we want to beā¦probably wonāt reach an ai quarter final this year eitherā¦on days like this youād wish there was no back door, whatās the point the players just want to get out and start over with a new boss, whoever comes in though say good bye to Hickey, McCarty, condon, mcnamara, OāBrien, j ryan, hannon, mulcahy for a start, have been regressing since 2014, things have moved on and they canāt produce it anymore
I think only once in the first half did we manage to engineer a situation with Hannon isolated in space, Lynch popping a ball out to the wing and James Barry nowhere to be seen. Hannon initially fumbled before popping the ball over the bar.
Mulcahy & Lynch actually did well but carrying lumberers like Dowling and Hegarty in the forwards was never going to stretch Tippās defensive shape.