Dean Brosnan

Incredible guys.

Then you had some of the other guys, Dean Brosnan, Brian Milan, you know, Katsi Angoul, what a terrific serving for the Glen, and a couple of other guys up front, but like, one variant today I thought was just immense, Rhys Dunne in the middle of the field was superb, Connor McCarthy, you know, I call Luke Horgan a young generation, similar to Owen Downey, even young generation as well, and then up front you had Lee Quilligan and you had Owen O'Leary, and they were a joy to watch, they were fantastic, and We put a lot of emphasis into the work ethic, into what has to be done in terms of the field, field work and tracking back and all that as well.

We chased the Bears all over the field today and to a man I thought we were absolutely brilliant.

Work great was the word that came to mind all the way through.

They'll talk about Michal Mullins.

And then we have some of the older generation, Dean Brosnan, Kotze.

My God, what a game he had today.

You know, Dave Noonan coming on, Brian Marlin coming on, Dave Doolan being in the squad, you know, but the younger guys was like one variant of that to me was, he was, he was immense.

They're a very, very good team.

We had success at four Premier Minors out of six, so we've a lot of young talent in this to come through, but just giving them their opportunity, giving them their chance to put up their hand and say, "I want to actually get my, my game on the, on the team." Like, we didn't play Dean Brosnan in one match.

We didn't play-- We took off the captain in another game, and, um, and we did it all for the right reasons, for the right cause.

Um, but I'm delighted with the younger lads.

Will he be kind of brought back there? Then you've Eoin Leahy and Sammy Keenan, who have to be minded as well, like.

And, and, and Dean Brosnan might be a good matchup for Damian Callan.

Maybe, yeah.

Or maybe Conor will be on him, possibly.

And people look for consolidation in terms of... bring the younger guys in and look try and keep your senior status i i had no interest in that consolidation to be honest i had nothing else in my mind but to win the county championship the minute we came back up simple as you know and last year we went to quarterfinal that was it disappointed really was was annoyed last year the way we we kind of lost the quarterfinal against middleton seven pints up with 20 minutes to go a pint up into injury time six minutes played and we lose the match by two So, great bunch, great bunch of, like, and my job as manager, realistically, is put the templates in place for these guys, but I think getting the balance right between the underage, or the younger generation, and the older generation, and hard calls were made.

We had some guys, look, we took the captain off, you know, against Black Rock, we didn't play in Dean Brosnan one or two games, we dropped out of the guys, and...

But it was brilliant the way they accepted it.

And they knew there wasn't a God damn damn right to get their place on the team.

And, like, when you go through the team and you see Owen Varian and you see Conor McCarthy and you see Rhys Don and you see Lee Quilligan and you see Owen O'Leary and you see...

Owen Downey, I call him young man, Luke Horrigan and these guys.

They all have to come through that level of success, right? So it was about giving these guys their opportunity to go in and play with the Patrick Horrigans, with the Robert Downeys, with the Dean Brosnan, with Simon Kennefix.

And thankfully for us, look, they've gelled year to date.

And they kept the Middleton arms length, and they won by six in the end, and I think they deserved it.

They were excellent, and obviously I know the standout players, the likes of Patrick Hogan, Dean Brosnan, the Downies.

But like, you know, your younger players really have to step up.

Conor McCarthy, he's done.