Pat Spillane

I think St. Brendan's in Killarney at one stage as a schoolboy.

I remember him telling me about being at school with Pat Spillane and how their relationship had changed over time based upon their diverging roles within Gaelic football and the sense of he was very hurt often by the criticisms of past teammates.

But the reality of management is the few enter it, whereas there's a lot more comment in the media, far more become commentators than become managers.

And that's certainly the case in Kerry.

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Do you know, I'm sick of hearing people talk about getting off to sleep, and they're talking about counting sheep and counting this and that.

Myself, I prefer to count my All-Ireland, uh, uh, Football, uh, Championship medals.

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Do you know, I'm sick of hearing people talk about getting off to sleep, and they're talking about counting sheep and counting this and that.

Myself, I prefer to count my All-Ireland, uh, uh, uh, football, uh, championship medals.

I mean, you've got John Egan's goal very early on in the game.

You've got Mickey Netta-Sullivan getting poleaxed, of course, which results in Pat Spillane going up to collect the trophy.

And making potentially the shortest All-Ireland captain's speech of all time.

Thanks.

Possibly the most unlikely outcome if you put Pat Spillane in front of a microphone and hand him to Sam McGuire.

This is when you say about we know the end.

Yeah.

If we were to judge from that start where Pat Spillane would end up in future years, the man

As we cast our eye here, and this is quite nice to look back on TJ now, we have...

Colm O'Rourke here and Joe Brawley and Pat Spillane, who are going to just talk a bit of shit here at halftime.

They've no notes.

A little bit like the Mayo or Back podcast, it's fair to say, TJ.

But third of all, it's the day that some of their most magnificent players of all time win their eighth All-Ireland medal, which, of course, was the standard for a long, long, long time until the dubs got their hands on things in the tens.

But they were looking at Ogie Morin, Ger Power, Paddy O'Shea, Mikey Sheehy, Pat Spillane, all won their eighth All-Ireland medal on the 21st of September, 1986, in what was, to be fair, an absolutely epic All-Ireland final.

Okay, so they passed out Dan O'Keefe, or Dan O'Keefe.

Yes.

Jack O'Shea had missed a penalty for Kerry in the first couple of minutes of the game.

And it looked like the game might be up, but they had a big wind behind them and they gradually ground to run down.

Pat Spillane, as you might recall, scored a very famous goal flying through the air to kind of pad a ball home to the net that got them back within a goal and they took off from there.

And they actually ended up winning by eight points, 2-15 to 1-10.