John Mullane

They have a good crop of young lads coming.

And obviously, you know, Limerick and Cork, they've, you know, Limerick have got the trial run with the two o'clock, but, you know, you're up out of bed earlier.

What time would, like, for a two o'clock throw-in, obviously then you're going to have massive traffic on the roads going down to the Cork.

Obviously, you're going to have the pre-match meal an awful lot earlier.

What time would these Limerick players then be

meet up on Sunday for a two o'clock throw-in?

Well, Dublin are very good at changing their structure up mid-game.

So sometimes they can go one up top, sometimes they can go two up top, and then sometimes they go three up top.

That, along with running on to the pitch to a full house, I mean, that's what you do all the hard training sessions for in the winter, in the muck, in the winter slog.

Then they drop Brian Hayes back.

Then if Hedgehold's there or if Roland Hayes comes in, they've a tendency to go long.

It's, you know, that guy with the escort in and you've seen all your fellow county men and they're coming and they're full in their colours, the kids and...

I'll take you back to that game in Salt Hill.

You know,

the games up today for Galway, up to that, they were getting an enormous amount of joy where they were going with one up top, they were flooding that middle third, getting more bodies out the pitch, they were working the ball through the lines, but what did the Dubs do?

the elderly people.

And, you know, you've seen the emotion on their faces, what it really means to them, you know, the pride of representing, you know, your county and what it means to them to go and follow you on months of final day or, you know, all early on final day.

They went and mirrored the exact same way as Galway set up, they went with one up top and they said, right, you know what, we're going to have every player accounted for out around that middle third, and that's where Galway struggles,

You know, and then as I just said there a few minutes ago, you know, to run onto the pitch into a full, into the cauldron of noise and parky queef, there's just absolutely nothing like it.

They couldn't work the ball through the lines and they couldn't get into that kind of possession game that we see in the league and see in some of their games in the lengths around Robin.