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Ah take it as a compliment. Their keepers implode without anyone needing to 'do a job' on them. Fierce decent that way.
tulachmhór (Offaly) - Posts: 145 - 24/07/2019 08:42:37 2215592 Link 0 |
No one has tried it since? Are you saying it worked so well that nobody bothered trying to do it again? In that semi against Kerry, he lost a couple of kickouts at the end of the first half. Kerry profited from them so it got plenty coverage. What didn't get as much coverage was that Dublin retained possession from every single subsequent kickout in that match. It's not as if Kerry said, that worked twice so we'll stop doing it. He adapted to the situation as he has often done. The most joy I've seen any team have on the Dublin kickout in recent years was actually Cork a few weeks ago. The effort involved in this seemed to take a heavy toll on them in the last 15 mins. It's incredibly difficult to do for a full match. WanPintWin (Galway) - Posts: 2042 - 24/07/2019 08:57:27 2215594 Link 2 |
You're right. Kerry did it from a free in. And it worked. They never tried it again in the 2nd half. In fact, they left a free corner back for the remainder of the game. I'd call kicking the ball to an unmarked man, getting beaten by a static forward under a high ball you've a running jump for, and kicking the next one clean over the sideline a meltdown. Half-time came at the right time for him in that game! cavanman47 (Cavan) - Posts: 5012 - 24/07/2019 09:08:05 2215598 Link 0 |
Goalkeeping errors happen. And as our Galway friend said in his post above, he adapted & steadied the ship and that's why he is captain.
Jackeen (Dublin) - Posts: 4097 - 24/07/2019 10:03:54 2215620 Link 7 |
That's a very excellent post, your bang on the money about Cork as well.
TheUsername (Dublin) - Posts: 4445 - 24/07/2019 10:15:01 2215624 Link 4 |