Joyce: "when you miss out, that makes you hungrier"
October 21, 2014
Kilkenny's Kieran Joyce and Patrick 'Bonner' Maher of Tipperary during the All-Ireland SHC final replay.
©INPHO/Lorraine O'Sullivan.
By the time the 2014 All-Ireland SHC final replay came around, Kieran Joyce was ravenous.
Joyce delivered a Man of the Match display in the rematch with Tipp at Croke Park last month as Kilkenny added to their record haul of All-Ireland titles. He says he got his break because manager Brian Cody judges players on their displays in training:
"I'd missed a good bit of the pre-season, and in my first league game back, against Tipp, got a bit of a roasting from Séamus Callanan, so that didn't help matters either," the Rower Inistioge clubman notes in The Irish Times.
"But I probably didn't come back as sharp as I wanted to be, and by then a couple of players were hitting form, like Joey Holden, and Pádraig Walsh . . .
"But Brian Cody always says after every game he goes back training with a blank sheet of paper again. To be fair, everything goes on form in training.
"You're always disappointed, when the team is read out and you are not on it. But it really is a team effort . . . When you miss out, that makes you hungrier. So you do an extra bit of training yourself, an extra bit of let's say studying video, or just pucking around at home."
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