James Skehill

Like, did the hype of anything come into it at all last year?

Because obviously we heard a lot about, you know, I suppose the disquiet around Paddy Power paying out and all this type of stuff kind of early in the year and all that type of stuff.

Like, would that seep into the panel down there or is that just us looking at it from the outside?

yeah it's interesting managers take different approaches like was the yellow for I don't know who the last day and then he gets taken or signed a Munster final and he gets taken off maybe actually just ride the lightning and see how he goes and maybe in the All-Ireland final if Owen Downey gets the hook Dermot and say then if Caroline makes a mistake they'd probably turn around and say well Pat Ryan was wrong to take him off she could have trusted him 100% there's no win or lose in the Eastwell no no win or lose yeah

We actually heard from Fitzgibbon earlier this week.

Dermot, he was kind of chatting to us as part of the old media during the week.

And we were asking him, you know, where is he like playing?

And he gave us the old classic answer, which was wherever Ben tells me to play.

Whether I'm going forward, centre-half, forward or midfield, I'll play wherever Ben tells me to play.

You look at it from slightly the outside.

Do you prefer him playing a little bit deeper or do you like him roaming or where would you like him playing?

What if you made it Galway?

Because people are saying here, you can't be calling them a banana skin.

I'm not sure if they're trying to just piss Gael off in the background because they know I'm looking over to the right hand side here.

But myself and Murph have been talking Galway up a little bit this year, just about like, you know, a young team, feel like they're a coming team.

What's your feeling been about Galway so far?

And I know I'm very mindful that you're thinking about Saturday week, the minute you open your mouth there anyway.

I can't help but get excited when I see Rabbit, when I see Nyland.

Go on, Skel, talk me down.

Clare and Nimerick, those boys are going to be going to each other online for the next two and a bit weeks and let them do it.