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I tell you what Clondalkin, when we win the All Ireland this year you can go off on one all winter just like 2014 ;D
TheHermit (Kerry) - Posts: 6354 - 31/05/2018 11:12:03 2105892 Link 1 |
It doesn't matter what team Kerry put out the big issue is if the manager has learnt from his mistakes of last year. The league didn't show much sign of that but the championship is a different matter. Kerry need to make an All Ireland Final this year for Fitzmaurice to keep his job. JDF (Galway) - Posts: 322 - 31/05/2018 11:36:54 2105906 Link 1 |
CD jimbodub (Dublin) - Posts: 20600 - 31/05/2018 11:38:39 2105909 Link 2 |
Did you not watch the recent final then? Connolly and McCarthy were the difference in the end jimbodub (Dublin) - Posts: 20600 - 31/05/2018 11:40:37 2105910 Link 2 |
Clon I'm playing is down boy, I'm just trying to look at it realistically, the likes of white foley o'beaglaoih O'sullivan in the backs and burns Clifford and O'Shea in the forwards are just not physically ready to make an assault on the championship just yet, saying that they need to play every minute of this years championship for us as they need that experience, in fairness it was a big mistake by our management not getting a strength and conditioning coach in a couple of years ago. That's why I say mayo Monaghan Tyrone and maybe Galway would give ye a better game but I feel we'd be blown away by ye'r physicality and athleticism at this moment in time. Trust me there wouldn't be anyone happier than me if I'm wrong and fion fitz is climbing the steps of the HoganStand to pick up Sam 38 but I'd be very surprised if he is. KingdomBoy1 (Kerry) - Posts: 14092 - 31/05/2018 11:55:34 2105916 Link 0 |
'have come from an almost unprecedented run of underage success' JDF (Galway) - Posts: 322 - 31/05/2018 11:56:43 2105917 Link 1 |
Ha Ha, bet this post will end up talking about Diarmuid Connolly and Lee Keegan or Dublin getting too much funding.
Green_Gold (Donegal) - Posts: 1876 - 31/05/2018 11:57:00 2105918 Link 2 |
The first line of my post should read I'm not playing us down.
KingdomBoy1 (Kerry) - Posts: 14092 - 31/05/2018 12:28:46 2105937 Link 0 |
I think you need to watch that game again, we were destroyed for 10-15 minutes by Galway at the beginning of the game due to tactical naivety on the sideline and probably a bit of complacency as well. Jack inexplicably just didn't react to Galway pressing so aggressively and we were 11 points down before he changed anything. Kerry were back to within a couple of points before Barry Dan was needlessly sent off in the second half and I think we only lost by four in the end. If that game was played again I'd put the house on kerry as Galway would never get that start again. It seems to be more and more of a hammering every time it's brought up here.
GeniusGerry (Kerry) - Posts: 2105 - 31/05/2018 12:34:30 2105941 Link 1 |
True, but our record at U-21 level has been appalling this past decade, we really need to get the finger out there. We'll see how we go in the U20's but my own opinion is that Jack is as much under pressure as Eamon is given the results over the past three years.
TheHermit (Kerry) - Posts: 6354 - 31/05/2018 13:07:37 2105952 Link 1 |
Guaranteed.
The_Fridge (Tyrone) - Posts: 2088 - 31/05/2018 13:48:15 2105971 Link 0 |
Kerry pretty much got a goal with the last kick of the game and the goal at the beginning of the 2nd half should clearly have been disallowed on top of Galway missing so many goal chances, Galway were comfortably the better team on the day. My point was that this group from Kerry have had very little success at 21's despite dominating minor level. JDF (Galway) - Posts: 322 - 31/05/2018 16:13:26 2106024 Link 1 |
If Kerry don't win it this year, will that be the end of Eamon Fitzmaurice? keithlemon (Australia) - Posts: 920 - 31/05/2018 16:33:51 2106035 Link 0 |
Kerry pretty much got a goal with the last kick of the game and the goal at the beginning of the 2nd half should clearly have been disallowed on top of Galway missing so many goal chances, Galway were comfortably the better team on the day. My point was that this group from Kerry have had very little success at 21's despite dominating minor level."]That was the first of the minor winning teams last year to play at that level so we will see how the rest get on. They will probably struggle this year without their two best players I'd imagine. Galway were very definitely the better team on the day but I don't think it was the annihilation that a lot of people like to portray. If Kerry had kept 15 on the field it was by no means over at that stage after leaving themselves with a quite avoidable mountain to climb ten minutes in. GeniusGerry (Kerry) - Posts: 2105 - 31/05/2018 16:47:49 2106038 Link 1 |
What recent final?
SaffronDon (Antrim) - Posts: 2386 - 31/05/2018 18:00:20 2106060 Link 0 |
What's your point anyway? Jack McCaffrey was the footballer of the year in 2015. He left the squad the following year and Dublin still won the AI without him. Why? Because they are well enough drilled as a unit that the next one in hits the ground running like nothing ever changed.
SaffronDon (Antrim) - Posts: 2386 - 31/05/2018 18:16:12 2106065 Link 1 |
McCaffrey is a speed merchant, we have plenty of pace on the bench. Connolly and McCarthy could not be replaced in the same way. If we win without such players its because the opposition are STILL not good enough to beat us without them. realdub (Dublin) - Posts: 8596 - 01/06/2018 00:13:24 2106136 Link 1 |
McCaffrey is a very good player but has never been as important to the team as McCarthy or Connolly imo. He may have been POTY in 2015 but that was completely due to the fact that they wouldn't give the award to Philly McMahon. McMahon was head and shoulders above everyone else on the Dublin team that year. MesAmis (Dublin) - Posts: 13718 - 01/06/2018 09:12:12 2106167 Link 2 |
I agree. The opposition haven't been good enough to beat Dublin minus key players. It was the point I was initially trying to make when lads where talking up Kerry's chances but it got side tracked a bit.
SaffronDon (Antrim) - Posts: 2386 - 01/06/2018 10:05:49 2106181 Link 0 |
I'd agree with that. McMahon's displays were exceptional that year but maybe clouded by a bit of controversy at times. It's something the seems to be the norm at awards ceremonies in the GAA. You get points taken away for crossing the line which is hard not to when you play in the edge. There is a touch of the Rose of Tralee about them. My vote would have went to Philly.
SaffronDon (Antrim) - Posts: 2386 - 01/06/2018 10:11:56 2106184 Link 0 |