James Skehill

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7,187 appearances 17 recordings 3 series first heard Apr 2026 last heard 28 Jul

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The Hurling Pod · THE HURLING POD: Skehill and Murphy's All-Stars | Players Of The Year · 28 Jul 2026 podcast

And if you consider it as well, right, the vast majority of players, no matter what we're arguing here, like you could argue the toss over, say someone like Fitzgibbon, what's his position? matched

plays a bit in the half-forwards, drops into midfield. matched

Colm Aine does the same. matched

Tony Kelly this year, inside forward line, half-forward line, midfield, kind of in a sweeper position to get the ball at different times. matched

Yeah, Tom Monaghan floats all over the place. matched

I mean, you could argue he plays in midfield even though he'll have a forward number on because of the way the Galway play. matched

The way other teams funnel players back, are you really a half-forward? matched

Look, matched

It's very, very difficult. matched

Very few players are now a conventional midfielder in the way they were once upon a time, where an eight and nine were in the middle third and they went up against and marked an eight and nine. matched

That very rarely happens anymore. matched

Because you will withdraw someone into the midfield as well, or someone will pop forward at different times. matched

And it's all about being elusive in that end of the field. matched

That's why I always find kind of funny about the All-Star thing. matched

So I don't tend to get too wrapped up when someone goes, like, do you remember the year that I think David Fitzgerald of Clare won an All-Star midfield and he played most of his hurling at left wing forward, but yet times he dropped deep as well? matched

his position is left wing forward but he did drop into those pockets so i'm not as i'm not as uh annoyed about that as the idea of just fitting someone in by moving a inside forward to the half forward line etc etc right so that's your midfields um murph you go half forward line first so i i went tommy monaghan i went tony kelly and peter duggan oh scale scale's under pressure now matched

One more time.

You went Tony Monaghan, TK.

And Big Pete.

He's grimacing here.

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