Pat Ryan

and you know that's a game where their best performance for years and years against Kilkenny you know won it well in the first round people are talking them up from that game straight away you're probably looking at an unused sub that day after all the youngsters played really well after the likes of you know the debutants started like Roy Burke the likes of Neary comes on

You'd be forgiven to think a fella like Tom Allen, oh, he'll just slip away now into the background here.

How will he see game time with all these fellas going well?

But, you know, perseverance and keeping at it.

This is a guy who had been on the gobbledygook panel before and I think...

O'Neill Shane O'Neill dropped him from the panel completely and then he came back on in with Shefflin I think I think that I think you're right yeah yeah so look at that for perseverance and then the other day I think the shooting was just exemplary like you know what I mean seven shots seven points and none of them were very few of them were gimmies in terms of you know turning on a turning on the D or turning on the 21 and tapping the ball over the bar he got points from everywhere and he just seemed you know it just seemed like he couldn't miss I thought he was absolutely brilliant and

what a great player now in their system it's interesting I don't know if you're following the NBA finals a clip came up the other day how are the Knicks going actually they lost last night at home now they're 2-1 up they won the first 2-1 they lost last night just an interesting clip with their manager basically the other night saying you're getting really well out of your players this year what did you do differently and he was like well I tried to implement a system this thing and it didn't suit my players so I changed it

And then it didn't work again, so I changed it.

And now I'm kind of on something now that suits my players.

And I'm just thinking, God, there's so many GA coaches that are the complete opposite.

They say, if you don't suit me, you're out.

That's just kind of common practice.

If you don't suit the way I play, you're out.

And I try and get something instead of suiting the way your players play.

And I think Michal O'Donoghue now, and the way he's playing with these Godlet players...

doesn't it suit the likes of Tom O'Lanhan straight away Busy B out on the middle who's not Tom O'Lanhan isn't as big as a great Higgarty to play as a limerick wing forward right or another or a Tom Arcee but what he is is if he has the numbers and the legs and he has someone that's there with him to tackle another player with him as soon as they turn over a ball then pop it to him bang score over the bar seven from head or night like himself and Whelan combined brilliantly their night watching the back I thought Whelan was actually probably my man of the match Savage yeah

oh lads the amount of tackles he got in the amount of but his new role Pat I mean he's reveling in that new role he was incredible John the other night he was incredible he was brilliant he was a pure animal the other night now even the goal near his goal I know Dublin were out of position like him just coming in at 100 miles an hour just buckling you know getting that ball he'd done that three or four times

in the first half alone.

Talk about setting the tone.

And if you see, I don't know if you're talking about close-ups of games, he was not emotional, but he was so... Ah, he was, yeah, yeah, yeah.