Pat Ryan

He's been absolutely brilliant.

loves high ball coming in is physical and fast enough to go out with low ball as well playing really well I think Crumby's playing really well their backs are setting that up the only thing is with Galway now when I said this I remember in the last round of the league when Galway got no goal against Galway or against Kilkenny they put up I think it was 35 points you know

The only thing is with Galway, the other way they concede a no goal against Galway, if they concede, some teams are funny and games are funny.

If Dublin concede no, if you tell me now Dublin won't concede a goal against Galway this weekend, Galway could still hit you.

There's so many shooters out the field.

You have to kind of follow Galway out the field because they want to shoot first out the field compared to other teams.

Like if you told me Cork won't score a goal in the months of final, I'd say, right, Limerick definitely wouldn't score.

Now we know that mightn't pan out like that, but it would nearly be the opposite with Galway.

So will Dublin follow him that bit more out the field?

Will they trust the likes of Paddy Smith?

and we'll say to come back in and say look lads we're going to have to trust that he will marshal these fellas inside here for periods of the game because we can't have Cahill Manion Keane Daniels you know a couple more we can't have these lads shooting out the field we're looking back we're watching all these games for the last three months they're too good at putting up 30 pints the last day above in Salt Hill lads it was 14 wide to three so they were still getting them shots off you could argue was it enough day was it elements

There is the vibe that Croke Park will sue Galway down to the ground.

You know, but it's a very hard game to call.

It's going to be very interesting out in the middle of the field.

One thing about Dublin, even when they lost the league final, for example, Dublin seemed to be able to put up a big score every day.

I can't remember what they got against Clare exactly in the league final.

I think it was something like 226 or something like that.

Or 228.

You know, Dublin in the last 12 months under Neil O'Connor, they just seemed to be able to put up big scores every day.

Any day you do that, you have a great chance of winning.