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Tomás Ó Sé | Championship crunch time, Kerry's next step, Dubs dilemmas, McGeeney's staying power 🏐
13 Jun 2026
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Chapter 1: What are the key highlights from the recent GAA matches?
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Chapter 2: How has Kerry's U20 success impacted their senior team?
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This is myth making that started in 2016. This is an Irish independent podcast. Welcome, everyone. So GAA football this weekend. And we're kind of at that sweet, sweet stage. Knockout football is here.
Chapter 3: What challenges are Dublin facing in the current season?
So I guess the simple way to sum up this weekend, this stage of the championship is winners against the winners and they get into a quarterfinal and the losers against the losers and you lose one more, you're out. So we have four knockout games this weekend to look ahead to. amongst other things. So knockout games include Monaghan, Roscommon on Saturday.
Kerry have no room for error, away to Kildare and Newbridge. That's half past five. That's not on TV, not on GA+. So only the people who are there will see it. And then Derry Mead as well. One of those going to go in Derry. That's seven o'clock on GA+. Knockout. The other knockout game, the Dubs away to Cavan, two o'clock on a Sunday. Also not on TV.
There is a world where Dublin and Kerry could get knocked out of the championship and nobody would see it this year.
Chapter 4: How does McGeeney maintain his influence on the Armagh team?
And Taliesin Cup as well. And then for those quarterfinal places I mentioned, Donegal against Cork is on Saturday in Valley Buffet, 3 o'clock. And also then a bunch of games on Sunday. Armagh will be hoping to beat Lowe the way and get into a quarterfinal. That's 1 o'clock Sunday.
Galway Westmeath 2 o'clock GA plus and Tyrone Mayos and RTE half past 3 so quarter finals up for grabs there so yeah we're at that stage of the season our GA podcast coverage as ever sponsored by AIB pred sponsors of the GA All-Ireland Senior Football Championship AIB know that the support of backroom teams can have a real impact and that behind every county are those who lift us all
Happy to say he pitches in at a nice stage of the season. Five All-Ireland medals as a player, 10 Munster titles, Footballer of the Year, and most recently, the All-Ireland winning manager of the Kerry Under-20s, Tomas O'Shea. Nice to have you back. You're very welcome. Hey, Joe. How are you? I'm very well.
So listen, our little deal was similar to last year, whereby you said, listen, the 20s, that's my priority. I'm not coming on with you talking rubbish until that's done.
Chapter 5: What strategies are teams employing in the knockout stages?
I'll be honest. I was hoping you were beaten every step of the way until the final, but I'm delighted you did win the final. But I wanted you out. I mean, I wanted you. So there you go. You made it all the way.
We did. We were delighted. It's a tough competition to win, the way it's laid out. the quick fire nature of the matches and how they ran off so quickly. It is difficult. And then, you know, you have, and it's the same for everybody, exact same for everybody. You have players involved with schools and colleges up to a certain point. So it's hard to get a rhythm going.
And when you get the rhythm actually going, we had all our lads back in the middle of March.
Chapter 6: What is the significance of kickouts in modern GAA matches?
We were out in early April and, So before you actually get the flow of it, you could actually be in trouble. So it is difficult. You need a bit of luck. And we got a little bit of luck this year. I think a major thing for us actually was the fixture for the final. We had two full weeks. And that two full weeks was vital. It was brilliant. We had five training sessions the way we planned it out.
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
Chapter 7: How are injuries affecting team performances in the championship?
crack we had. It was a great balance there. We worked hard and it was fun. Tough times. It was like a rollercoaster, really. It was great. I enjoyed it. Now, I got a kick out of it this year. Obviously, then we had our battles with Tyrone. They've been phenomenal the last number of years.
Phenomenal at underage, 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.
Chapter 8: What predictions can be made for the upcoming matches?
And that's out of respect, I'd say that. was a huge carrot for us as well.
Yeah, no doubt. So it was great. No doubt. For context, for people who don't follow the 20s as closely. So this is your fourth year or was your fourth year as 20s manager. Third year in a row, you face Tyrone. They're brilliant at this level. As you said, they've won the last two All-Irelands. They were going for three in a row. They'd beaten you last year.
And in Crow Park, I mean, I watched a bit of the game. After 10 minutes, you were five points down and I didn't, I thought, geez, here we go again. But it was a really good win in the end, 21 points to 110. Tomás, that's fascinating what you say about having the two weeks to bed in some tactics.
I'm sure you don't want to spill all your secrets in case you're there next year and you're coming up against our own next year. But give us a flavour of something that you work on two weeks out from an All-Ireland final that you feel is so important and is so crucial in the winning of the game.
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. In that full match... In Tyrone, we only had 11 kick-outs, which is very strange. We only had 11 kick-outs in that match in the All-Ireland final. And Tyrone had 27. So it just shows how dominant we were.
So both kick-outs, we did a pile of work on them. Pressing and making sure that the ball was up for grabs with Tyrone. But every team are doing a joke. Whatever matches are on this weekend... There'd be a full emphasis on that. And then the other big one was they were very effective with their defence.
So the way we were setting up attacking-wise all year, we had to completely change what we were doing because we knew it wouldn't work against them. We did the same against them last year. So if we went with the same thing, we would have met the same result, I feel, anyway. And we just changed it around.
But those five sessions, if we, for example, if it was called where it was supposed to be fixed, we played on a Wednesday against Roscommon. And if the final was played the following Wednesday, we would have had two sessions between those two Wednesdays. And the first session, they couldn't do much because they'd be sore from the first game. So tactically, we couldn't.
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