Pat Ryan

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?

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 like you know there's all these little things like jeez what if they get going again and what if they hit nine or ten points 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 that's all it is I find when you get to bed at night and you lie in you might actually you have loads of distractions during the day you have your job family

you know you're busy doing things but when the head goes down on the pillow it's that 10 minutes before you get to sleep where you start replaying all these things in your head so I think that's where the emotion comes in and that's the reason why when Ron Levine is going on Sunday that the you know the hair is around the back of your neck and that's the best feeling of all time when that anthem is going you know before a big crowd and it's just it's unmatched and that's real emotion It's funny what you said there Pat about the Red Sea and staying on after a loss because

Yeah, sure.

If you were a manager, how couldn't you love him?

You know what I mean?

Consistent, strong, brave, a leader in terms of, you know, when you're a manager, you know, there are certain players, they all want to do, I wouldn't say want to make the papers, you know, want to be on the ball.

He has no problem doing the hard jobs, you know what I mean?

The dirty jobs and absolutely shutting a fella down if he has to.

And in fairness, Limerick won the league final and I think an awful lot of Limerick winning the league final was his performance that day.

Which team does Mull get into?

both in how he protected the full-back line but in also how he got the better of what I would regard as I'd put Shane Barrett in one of the top five hurlers in the country I don't know if he'd agree or disagree with that so I think for you know to do to play so well on him in the league final was absolutely huge you know and in fairness Barrett he came back they've had a great battle in the first round of the championship Barrett got a couple of scores you know it's a different job when you're at that but centre forward and the man kind of comes off you but no William O'Donoghue absolutely huge it

Whose place does he take?

It's kind of like, do you remember Braveheart there when William Wallace had the big fella beside him?

Remember he had Brendan Gleeson's character?

You need, you know, the kind of killer, the big man, you need a few of them.

You need to be going to war with someone that's just... The warlord, I need to name him now.