Hard to argue with any of that.
Has Babs had his say in The Sun?
John Kiely, Paul Kinnerk and this current crop of players can do fuck all about how the bookies price up a game and you can be assured it wonât enter their heads.
Must sting a little bit for a blue blood though to have Little Old Limerick priced up against Tipp
Itâs encouraging to see counties getting their structures sorted out. Cork have a bit of a stylistic problem at the moment and you can see it with their club hurling too. Cork are playing a brand of almost non-contact hurling which directly leads to their habit of capitulating against any kind of meaningful physicality. It works well early in the intercounty season when refs are stricter but as the game is allowed to flow later in the championship theyâve no steel to turn a game thatâs getting away from them.
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Job of the bainisteor and team leaders Iâd say.
My take is that outside kk where, like NZ itâs effectively a single sport area, so all the talent flows that way, itâs serendipity in as much as
- A team needs a bit of luck
- Whilst skill levels are excellent in general, it needs a contemporaneous crop of lads big enough and hardy enough and skilful enough. This is a matter of underage structures keeping such lads interested and, crucially, focussed, but the spine of any team either has the mental strength to give it a go, or it doesnât. This canât be coached. Itâs in your rearing and your genetics.
- It needs the good luck to have lads with the speed to go with the skill. This can be honed, but, by and large, youâre explosive off the mark, or youâre not.
- Teams who win write the history, but, whilst I hate the cnuts for breaking my heart too often, kk folk are the soundest hurling people youâd ever encounter, and there is less bollox talked by kk than most other counties. They just get on and hurl.
Tipp have no issue going into next week as plucky underdogs.
Iâm sure Sheedy will have them as well prepared as possible but itâs just not realistic to expect to beat this Limerick juggernaut with a game under their belt.
very clever. You pretending not to be an arrogant Tipp cunt will have a huge bearing on the result
Keep your powder dry mate. We have weeks to do that.
Desert
Not sure about his point that the main bright spot was lads who were 5 or 6 in 95â. Theyâd all have been overage for the 2012,13 and 14â U21 titles.
Bit of the Frank Murphy syndrome in Clare it seems.
Fitz senior getting all the blame when they lose and none of the credit when they are successful.
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Is this true that Kilkenny is a single sport area. Some good footballers from.there
Edit. Looks like 220 underage football teamâs
Ladies teamâs
A floodlit league and loads of adults team
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Think he was referring to the late 90s when Loughnane team were in their prime and were the role models to that generation as opposed to just one year
That is why I said the end of the decade. I donât think their current team is good enough but I expect them to really start churning out a better quality of player over the next 5 to 10 years.
Tongue in cheek mate.
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Donât know myself. Thereâs a few professionals in a back room team that probably donât come too cheap. Mileage expenses for every player probably add up to a lot. Food after every training session, medical expenses. Training camp trips. Iâm only speculating on the specifics but Iâm sure it wouldnât be long adding up.
Itâs actually gas. Hegarty fist pumped every fucking free he won.
OuchâŚ