Philly McMahon

Who knows?

It's just, it's got so many branches that can come from that and you'd be just guessing and making assumptions.

Yeah, a total different approach because I thought McGuinness would stick to his system that he had in the All-Ireland final and the league final to an extent.

But obviously, you know, Clifford not there, Paddy Clifford not there.

But I think a lot of people were thinking at some point, Rorty was going to pick him up and see, was that going to be the best way?

And if they were going to do it, now is the time.

So now they have two different strategies to mark Paddy Clifford.

It's drop off, stay in your zone, stay in your compact defensive low block or now it's press up and really try to eliminate him and just go man to man on him.

So, whether that worked or not, in clarity, now they've two ways of looking at it.

Right?

So, that's the best thing about it.

Now, McGuinness can say, right, now we know it's worked.

That's what we do when we meet him again.

If it didn't work, we tried that.

but here's maybe the way we'll do it the next time.

Maybe it's like stay in your zone and when Paddy Cliff gets on the ball, we'll press out to him.

But Rorty is such a good player and he's at an infancy stage of his career and energy that I'd say he's a young lad looking at that going, I'm going to feel great after doing a man-making job in Paddy Cliff and keeping him quiet.

So that's not to say that Paddy Clifford next time to me isn't going to light it up but it was a good move from my point of view because he now has two different ways of looking at it.

Well, I would have thought the opposite to be honest in the All-Ireland final last year.

I looked at all of Paddy Clifford's clips to see how effective he was in that game.