Tomás Ó Sé

And we were able to focus on the tactical side of the opposition, which, as it turned out, was key in the final.

And I think if it had been a week, I think we wouldn't have had the time to embed it with the lads to a way that would give them confidence of trusting it going into the final.

So I enjoyed it.

It was the first year, really, that

say it's hard enough to pick a management team and to get them on the same wavelength but there was just a great there was something different this year about it and it was a great journey we could have lost it could have lost it easily and it wouldn't have taken away from the the

crack we had it was a great balance there like we worked hard and it was fun tough times it was like a roller coaster really it was great I enjoyed it now I got a kick out of it this year obviously then you know we had our battles with Tyrone they've been phenomenal the last number of years phenomenal at under age at under 20 level which always is like their seniors are going to click at some stage

And there's going to be a spark there.

And McIlhome is firing already above there.

You know, you can see that coming through.

But that was a massive one for us to beat them, especially.

And that's out of respect, I'd say that.

was a huge carrot for us as well.

Well, it's not.

You're not giving away any state secrets, Joe.

The game has gone to such a way, kick-outs are massive kick-outs.

So the way we were thrown at a huge press and they played Monaghan and Ulster, played Donegal and Ulster and that got great joy out of an aggressive press.

And it was something that we hadn't come up against before.

in any of the games.

We played Roscommon in the semifinals, so we didn't tweak.

We had a bit of movement, but we had to do a pile of work on that to make sure that... And it was very strange.