Philly McMahon

He probably won't pull them back out until later in the season, because what happens is...

teams will always reflect on the game before they've played the other team.

So say, for example, if you're Dublin and you're playing Donegal three or four games down into the Championship, you're probably not looking at them as much and you're looking at their games that they've just played because a lot changes within the Championship games.

you might have a little look back to the league final but you don't go that far back right so there is an element of us thinking right now because it's fresh that both teams will analyse this to the depth they will look at it of course they will analyse it this week but

Things will change over the next couple of weeks.

The intensity will go up.

The championship, particularly Donegal and Ulster, that will go up to another level.

I think Cork will give Kerry this year a good challenge that maybe hasn't been there as much in previous years.

But it won't be as strong as Ulster.

So that's all you can really do.

You'll always reflect on the previous two or three games.

You won't go back all the way to...

I'm always caught with these ones, but I've done a few of them myself where you're just trying to give a little sucker punch into the ribs for the man to drop the ball.

But yeah, you're open to getting caught if you've closed fists and then you go for a second time around.

I don't think anybody can debate that.

It's not a red card.

I've said so many times Michael Murphy is either a genius at tackling or he's a terrible tackler you know I've said in columns he's like an octopus when he comes out you're transitioning up the pitch and he just fouls you and it slows you down transition wise or he's just a very bad tackler and yeah I think you know you just it's one of those things that

I just think there's, the more and more I see the small amount of games he underperforms in, which is very few, it's based around having players around him, not really a man marker.

Of course he has a man marker on him, but if you also watch how they get bodies, like a backup defense around him,

it completely minimises the ball going into him, but also when he's on the ball, he's not doing any damage.