Paul Murphy

Last week of August, first week of September.

Always that type of territory.

I'm not sure of the exact date, but that weekend, isn't it?

And are we going as a bit of a trifecta here?

Well, Shane Flanagan stepped in for you last year, remember?

Okay, he may step out, though.

Poor Flanagan, missing out on his weekend trip to go along.

Are there any Skell family predictions for this week?

I think the bad news on this one, Dion, is that we had the Skell family join us just before the pod.

Yeah, we had.

And it wasn't off the bed.

Fair enough, fair enough.

Fergus, and this is all people trying to get Scal now to play Galway down.

Looks like it might be Galway's year, you know, young team looking good and then crack of the ass straight out there saying this is not Scal bait, which means it is Scal bait.

But can we talk about Galway being in the long grass?

They look very good when they feel like it.

So that brings us very nicely around to Galway against Clare, doesn't it?

I'll tell you what, that first half they didn't feel like it.

Yeah, I think hectic martyrdom sums up very well there, which is that Kildare were very good and Galway were off it.

And particularly first half, Galway were really off it.