James Skehill

Half-time in the football yesterday, Offaly are like nine points up.

You're going, life is good.

Maybe it's going to be another showdown with Down in the Talton Cup final.

And then it all goes to shit in the second half.

And then within about nine minutes of today, I kind of went, my worst fears are currently being realised.

And I do take the point.

I think it was Odoir Calan there in the old comments a few moments ago had said a sweeper doesn't solve all the problems.

It's about the desire about getting to the ball.

I actually don't think that Offaly showed a lack of desire to get to the ball.

The problem was that when they went into collisions, no, but when they went into tackle scale, they were bouncing off them.

There was one point where Dan Burke tried to go in, and I think it was Rob Downie, and he just bounced off.

It was a complete and utter physical mismatch.

No, absolutely not.

We thought the good days were in the rearview mirror and that mirror was getting more and more distant, my friend.

Okay.

I did see a few people saying there, so why don't you take it up a scale straight away, ahead of Saturday week at Croke Park.

What can Galway expose in this Cork team from what you've seen?

I don't know if expose is the right word.

I think when we get to maybe the... I feel like Murph was aimed at me.

I've got a feeling when we get to the head tackle, you might well get annoyed by some people along the way, but let's see.