Kildare GAA

Just some of the other stories, lads.

Manute back in their first Kildare final.

I should say back in their first Kildare final.

Their first one in 110 years.

I

Colin McCabe got the goal.

He's actually a hurler.

He plays with the Kildare Hurlers as well.

But it certainly was never pressure from then.

It was more so like... understand your role and he always would have been very good about trying to talk about how you use those perceptions of other people what they think of you against them you know in terms of what your perceived weaknesses are and stuff and you know often what a reference like Johnny Doyle with Kildare when he was there is like probably kind of again similar kind of shape to me that how you kind of use your engine and your brain and you know your smarts around the thing as opposed to thinking you're going to impose yourself physically like I was never going to do what Aidan Falker did you know in terms of like his strength and you know the way he physically imposed himself on people that just wasn't my game so you kind of have to kind of make your peace with that and realise that you have to play at your own strengths

What was your game then? In your words, what did you see your game as?

Probably a calm head most of the time and I suppose it takes time to build that trust with players.

Well, there were a couple of specials as well, so we have actually gone past 50.

But anyway, we're up to 49, and a very big episode ahead because, uh, we really are down to crunch time in the Kildare GAA season.

What a hectic weekend we have in store, and we're going to jump straight in to preview the action that is coming up, uh, this weekend.

We're gonna start with the Joe Mallon Motors.

But we're gonna go back to 6:00 PM on Saturday evening now for the Tom Cross Junior Football Championship final.

God, there's so much happening this weekend.

It's a, a massive weekend in the Kildare GAA calendar, and a massive weekend for these two clubs indeed, Cappa and St. Kevin's.

There's only one junior championship between these two sides.

The Westmeath champions and won easily 4-16 to 1-6.

On Sunday the 5th of December we lined out in Rat Downie in the Leinster Club semi-final where we qualified for our second successive Leinster Club final when we defeated Kildare champions Ayr Clock 1-16 to 6 pints.

And if my memory serves me right, that day we were sweating again in the dressing room.

Poor Bill Cody was in a terrible state.

I'm told very many people do so.

A very good friend of mine got involved with Norni this year in Kildare and he asked me to give him a hand and I was like, anyway, I've got involved and loved it.

I've spoke before about one of the things I miss about football.

I don't want to go back into management, I haven't for a long time, but I miss the dressing room.

And I'm coaching away with Nourney at the moment in intermediate football in Kildare.

And I love it.

I love 25 new friends, for want of a better word.

October 18th for that Dublin County Final.

The last county final that'll take place, uh, in football this year is gonna be the Kildare Senior County Final.

It's gonna be the Kildare Senior County Final on November the 1st, and their champions, Athy, were knocked out-

November

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