They're playing, they're playing to their strengths.

Yeah.

Well, like, you even look at Cathal, uh, Cathal Mannion, he'll play behind the halfback line.

He'd remind, just say, of, of a, of a way, of a quarterback in American football.

He's dictating where the ball is going.

They have everyone drop back.

You have Mannion.

Very good.

Yeah,

you hit the nail on the head, Fergal, and maybe more than that, because, like, you start off in 1973, you had a minor team who got beaten, I think, a pint by Kilkenny.

killer really like and the lad the lad that was managed that time was a JP Cusick from Loughbray just in the road from here a gentleman of a man and he asked me would I do the coaching for them like and sure you know as a young lad you jumped in I was only a few years older than the boys it was 18 that time we had a strong team maybe we had the team better than we thought we had and we made one vital mistake and I'll never forget it a line ball that went wrong wound up in the net and like Kilkenny beat us a pint that day like oh god almighty it was a tough one to take but like you learn your lessons and I wound up in 78 again with an under 21 team at the time and 79 with an under 21 team And I knew I was coming.

78, we had a very good team, won the final in a replay against Tip.

79 got into a final, we were beaten by Tip.

But when I went back into seniors, I knew I was coming.

And then I kind of, in my time with the seniors, I incorporated under-21s.

Like what advice would you give to a coach who is taking up a minor team?

They became one-dimensional going

long, didn't they? See, Sean...

Like, knowing Galway for donkey's years, once we get our game going, whatever game plan, if we get our own game going, we have no fear of anyone.

You can nearly know how Galway are going to play after five to seven or eight minutes.

Not even talking about scoring or the score today, but even if they didn't, they were playing well.

You kind of know how they're in the groove for that day.

Their hurling is very good, their touch is very good.

There's probably a few more after today, but Lord God, in the second half, you wouldn't know

Does this set them back? Can they bounce back? What, what does it do for Dublin? What does it say about Dublin?

Well, you see, probably coming into the game, Dublin were under more pressure than Galway in the sense that they went to a semifinal last year.

They're together longer.

They're, they're ...

Like, that team is settled.

They have their panel settled, and they seem to be improving, and they are improving, but there was big pressure coming in to kind of deliver.

Okay, they'd have to win to drive on again.

I'm curious to get your, your outside view of, of Kilkenny this season.