Pat Ryan

and coming to the very end if he wasn't on the starting team and he had something to add he'd still add it you know he wouldn't be sitting down at the back of the room just because he's not starting this weekend and not adding to the team anyone can add to it when they can and no one might speak of course John is the main man and John will do that heading out the very same as I'm sure Ben O'Connor will blow on Cork

you know but it's funny John the volume very rarely goes up with John Kiley it's when it goes down if you know what I mean do you know what I mean by that yeah get real serious where he could just get real serious because he's well able to have a bit of crack too all throughout the weeks and even throughout championship weeks but it's when he could get serious now just before they head out for training because all he wants really

When a lot of those players, when they hit the pillow tonight and the phone is down by the bed and they're not talking to their partner, when they're looking up at the ceiling tonight and they can't sleep for 10 minutes, lads, they are thinking about Sunday.

They're thinking about last year.

They're thinking about when they played and thinking about... You know what I mean?

He just wants a really good hour session tonight.

They're thinking about...

You know, the Cork roar even coming out and the Cork lads are thinking about, jeez, this green machine, lads, when they get going.

A 50-minute session.

He places... I even used to think sometimes he places too much importance on it.

Like, you know, there's all these little things like, jeez, what if they get going again?

You know what I mean?

In terms of all he'd be speaking about tonight, more or less, bar the few nuggets that Shawnee might give for Sunday, would be about tonight's session.

And what if they hit nine or ten pints at the start?

And no, no, no.

You know, in your head, that's the week of a big game for anyone that hasn't been involved in one in a long time.

Just everything would be about tonight's session.

That's all it is, I find, when you get to bed at night and you lie in.

So he will hone in on that going out.

He'll have one or two things he'll want to see and he'll give that in.