Pat Ryan

Consistent, strong, brave, a leader in terms of, you know, when you're a manager, you know there are certain players, they all want to do, I wouldn't say want to make the papers, you know, want to be on the ball.

I wouldn't bet against the two of these meeting in the All-Ireland final.

He has no problem doing the hard jobs, you know what I mean?

The dirty jobs and absolutely shutting a fella down if he has to.

And in fairness, Limerick won the league final and I think an awful lot of Limerick winning the league final was his performance that day.

both in how he protected the full-back line, but in also how he got the better of what I would regard as... I'd put Shane Barrett in one of the top five hurlers in the country.

I don't know if he'd agree or disagree with that.

So I think to play so well on him in the league final was absolutely huge.

And in fairness, Barrett, he came back, they've had a great battle in the first round of the championship.

Barrett got a couple of scores.

It's a different job when you're at that, but centre forward and the man kind of comes off you.

But no, William O'Donoghue, absolutely huge.

It's kind of like, do you remember Braveheart there when William Wallace had the big fella beside him?

Remember he had Brendan Gleeson's character?

You need, you know, the kind of killer, the big man, you need a few of them.

You need to be going to war with someone that's just... The warlord I need to name him now.

That's what I need to name him.

The warlord.

You need to be, when you're going into battle, you need to have one or two of him.

You know what I mean?