Pat Ryan

That was 19, yeah.

That was an unbelievable goal as well.

Whether that's filling space, whether that's coming back on a man and letting a roar to William and saying, you drop back there, I have him.

And even, you know, I know we don't forget it, but you know, Robert Downey's goal in 2024, you know what I mean?

You know, whether it's just blocking out space on their puck out.

It doesn't get shown as much, I suppose, because Tony Kelly's goal, because Clare got over the line by a pint, Tony Kelly's goal is the one that's shown then forevermore, whereas Downey's goal doesn't get it, which is gas.

Whether it's actually, whether Nicky Quaid has the ball and he comes up in between William and Barry or Kyle Hayes, just so there's a space in front of, you know, Colin O'Neill and Grodd Higgarty running to.

But that day, John, it just, well, one thing that came, what had to happen, John, was that high ball that was coming in

He's always trying to impact.

pack the game when he doesn't have the ball so he's another weapon we'll say that we didn't have against Cork the first day he only came on and done quite well until he came on so teams change ever so slightly as they go on and who knows what will happen this week that might we'll be talking about in a couple of months in a month's time getting ready for an All-Ireland final between these two to say God they'll have to change that from the Munster final you know I wouldn't bet against the two of these meeting in the All-Ireland final

that long, long ball that was coming in, it was breaking in behind and that had to be stopped.

You know, I remember, and I think it was Dan Morrissey either came on or moved into the centre.

I don't know if he came from wing-back or came back on.

yeah so Dan Morrissey was huge in that in terms of he came in and he stopped that long ball from breaking in behind because we all know when you're involved in underage teams you're always telling your backs be a wall if you can just don't let the ball go in behind break it in front whatever happens just try and stop the ball it's coming against you

And we had brother, I often mention brother Armour, he used to be roaring at the whole time.

Stop the ball coming against you, pull on the ball going with you.

He used to be trying to get us playing ground hurling, but he was always stopping the ball.

And other than that, when the ball was stopped, John, we had that bit of a platform.

It was the job then of the half forwards to come out and get that double centre forward, the midfielders.

It was just put to them like, lads, the work has to come up here.