Probably wasnât expecting 30 pages back 
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Was it double spaced?
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Size 14 font, Bevans eyes arenât the best
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Could it be said theyâre unmanageable?
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Were there a lot of big words in it?
How do you explain Cody?
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Kilkennys Norman stock are more stoic than Gaels.
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Curious one. Like under Patsy they looked very manageable all through the league and into the first round of the Championship and then it went to shit. Come the Clare game it was clear that a lot of them werenât playing for the manager.
Donât think so. Cahill managed them fine for two years. He got an awful lot wrong this year though.
This Waterford team were overrated to begin with anyway by the public at large.
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Cody from what I gave gleaned has a very different M.O.
He doesnât get into conflict with players or dole out bollocking or pull up your socks pep talks to players. He treats everyone the same for the most part and if he feels you arenât putting in the effort he just stops picking players and gives them the cold shoulder.
It isnt something which is easily replicated and while the player on the receiving end of it doesnât like it, more importantly the rest of the group donât get worn down by it.
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And they thought we were bad with the twenty questions.
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Its the culture more than the man, but the man has created the culture?
I think fundamentally, players need to respect management, without necessarily liking management.
I see it with teachers that have excellent classroom management and get fantastic results. Other teachers claim that said teachers get results because the students fear the teacher.
The fact is, those same students have huge respect for the teacher and are crazy about them. Its the lazy kids that have a problem with the above teacher.
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Like everything - consistently setting and respecting boundaries is what sets apart the good from the bad.
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The current Kilkenny team must have felt ten feet tall when the great man told them, 'this is how we trained when we were winning All Irelandâs".
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Massively so. Fellas ranting about their panel depth based on running in a few handy goals against Wexford and Cork.
That said, I think they should have gotten out of Munster
Give it to Sean Power
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All jokes aside, this is what should happen
An ice cream van or even a few Mariettas would go a long way.
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Who are the genuine contenders here? The talk of Cahill leaving has been going around for a long time, so youâd imagine the county board have some contenders in mind. Ideally, youâd like to get the manager in place before the club Championship gets up & running?
As an outsider, McGrath would be a very underwhelming appointment. I know that heâs had some modicum of success with the Laois minors recently and I donât doubt that he definitely has some positives. But if Waterford want to win the All-Ireland?
I donât really know much about the other internal candidates, people often talk about Power. I suppose like Kiely & Cahill, he has underage All Irelands with some of these players. I donât know whether heâs even been a selector with a senior setup? And then people mention the current Ballygunner management, Darragh OâSullivan was the manager this year. Obviously have achieved success but the cautionary part about both Power & OâSullivan would be that they definitely had the best teams in their own competitions; itâs a different test bringing an underdog to win an All-Ireland.
Some talk of Molumphy who did alright with Kerry this year, I suppose, despite an exodus of players early in the year. Possibly a hard person to deal with, but got the most out of the players he did have.
As I said, I donât really know any other obvious internal candidates, would they go outside again? Donât think thereâs a blatantly obvious candidate, anybody coming in would have a fair degree of risk. Same names get thrown up for all these jobs, basically recent intercounty managers.