Philly McMahon

They have had us tactically in the league final.

Now they've went after us mentally to an extent in terms of the dark arts.

So it sets it up brilliantly in Donegal's favour.

But if you're Donegal, you're looking in, you're going, right, we're going down to Clareney.

They're going to be so emotive.

They're going to be so energized.

They're going to go after key target players.

They're going to go after Murphy.

And even when you see that, they go after Murphy and the likes of Gallin and another player step up.

That shows you that they've got it wrong, the gauge of their emotions.

I can only give you an example of Desi not being there in COVID.

You know, that was my kind of experience of the manager not being there.

He was there a lot, you know, in terms of linking in with the management team.

Were you at that training session?

No, no, thank God it wasn't.

It was one of those things where you just go, jeez, thank God I wasn't at that training session.

I forgot about that.

But no, you know, so it's just, it's just difficult.

Like it is, it's, you know, when you're a kid and, you know, over the years you have different coaches and managers.

but when that manager always shows up consistently you expect him you know when he's not there you know he's not there you know she's not there if it's a female that's what it was like and Jim McGuinness is such a big character I could I'd say it'd be disastrous from what I see he's like a coach and a manager like it's not just kind of a manager and let the coaches coach he seems to be