Pat Ryan

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4,383 appearances 14 recordings 3 series first heard Jan 2026 last heard 15 Sep

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Indo GAA · Limerick produce their best | Galway abandon their system | Our team of the year · 21 Jul 2026 podcast

But Limerick have become so good at that.

That's 10 years going back now with Paul Knirkle.

One man holds up, second man takes the ball.

Exactly.

Get in, or even if they don't get the ball, if you just hold them up and they have to go backwards or sideways and you're slowing them down, it's a fierce advantage to our backs.

So I think it's very, I think watching the weekend, I think Paul, the very first thing he said to the Limerick players at the winter of 16, we want to be hard to play against.

I think for as good as Limerick were today with the ball,

I think they were extremely hard to play against without the ball, which you were talking about there, weren't they?

I think that first goal he had, that first narrative he put into the Limerick players at that time, I think he more than, you know, he got that across and Limerick are so hard to play against.

You saw it the other day, like Ronan Glendon was having a great year, running with ball, carrying ball, getting with the field.

he just you know he met an intensity the other day and he met you know tackles and contact just Paul Cork would always be talking about that as well get contact on the man doesn't have to be a great tackle you don't always have to land a shoulder to a shoulder and put a fella on his arse it's very hard to do that you know it's just get contact get contact if you have contact on a fella he can't really score as much or if he does it's a wonder score like a Peter Duggan you know we don't see them too often or like Darren Eerie got an unbelievable score the other day you know you only get one or two of them in a game if you're lucky

So the constant contact, constant swarm, that's all coming from Paul Canuck from years gone by of saying, you know, that some of us together will do more than one person, you know, chasing one man.

I said it last week about how 13's job is to help 10, 10's job is to help 9, 9's job is to help 5.

And the whole idea that that kind of is a swarm, you know what I mean?

13 and 10 should be tackling Roland Linden at number seven.

You know, Hagerty and Keane Lynch should be tackling Killeen together there.

So, very, geez, Limerick are such a hard team to play against.

I just think, I think it's their defending.

I know they put up big scores in finals and hitting 30 points.

But to me, lads, it's how they play without the ball and how hard they make it for youth play is just exceptional.

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