If you cant tackle, you are better off fouling than letting them walk out with the ball.
Sometimes McCarthy fouls when the back is going nowhere though which is frustrating. Heāll learn.
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Stakelum surely will start for Tipp after his performance v Galway? The other options McGarry and Tynan are runners not hurlers
Brislane followed the Toome template that day; a wild pull under a dropping ball across Paudie Maherās head early doors. A yellow card and MOTM then
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He was sent off twice v that Limerick u21 team who won 3 in a row. In the same game .
I do
Clare made hay last year by attacking the 7 spot relentlessly for the last 15 minutes. Iād say 90% of our scores in that time from playing ball into that zone. KK being so man-to-man hurt them a bit I think. Sometimes Carey was there but mostly it was OāDonnell and Galvin moving into empty space after Carey had been dragged out of it.
That time Paudie didnāt follow him out from Full back to a ball under the New Stand and Brislane went and swung it over unopposed was absolutely iconic.
Iāll never forget some gruff, bearded Toome man in the stand roaring āyouāll follow him the next time Maherā to much amusement from the rest of the crowd.
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McCarthy doesnt have any less raw pace than most inside players across the country. I studiously watched him in the Galway game. He is actually very quick closing down players and making up ground. His perceived lack of pace is down to 2 things. His movement to create separation from defenders and he actually decels when running out to the ball for what I can only presume is to make sure of control of the ball. This allows defenders to get out in front. He was brilliant in the Waterford game and showed great maturity in the Limerick one. He is only going to get better and will be around for a long time. Could be a lot of humble pie eaten Sunday evening.
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Nothing as wild as his pull in the subsequent game v Adare which he rightly got his marching orders for.
That whole thing of Corbett following Tommy Walsh or whatever it was is a stain on Kilkenny v Tipperary.
Was it ever explained what actually happened?
Lar takes things very literally
Darragh I presume you mean? Heās done well as impact sub. Tynan is better hurler than people give him credit for
What kind of crowd are they expecting Sunday. The other ones a sell out
There is a time and a place. Taking the pace out of a game, killing time, stopping opposition momentum.
However at the wrong time it is an energy sucker when you are chasing a game or have a chance to kill a team off.
His foul early in 2nd half vs Galway on I think Mannion is a case in point. Heās not just there for what he does in possession, there must also be something positive out of possession.
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Fair enough, the obvious alternative is start OOD but then youāve little or no work rate inside.
You need piano pushers and players.
He was left for dead time and again by O Donoghue in league final. Im inclined to think what happened next time they met was a consequence of that.
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Long-term he is probably a wing forward
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Good post, but the first half makes out Dublin as unbeatable before tipping cork.
Someone āa certain all star if heās pickedā??
O Donoghue caught him in the balls and McCarthy reacted. O Donoghue the rotten cunt dived in time honoured Brian Murphy inspired fashion.
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Basically a plan hatched by Lar and co that entailed them calling the shots as to marks whom.
Went well until half time and then KK tore them a new one,if memory serves me correctly.
My abiding memory,apart from the result,was Lar jumping about 10 foot in the air when TW received a yellow card.
A bit unbecoming but hugely entertaining on reflection.