Richie Hogan

Tony Kelly is as good as is in the country.

Then you have T.J. Reid and Richie Hogan.

So like even you see Pat Horgan with Cork.

Well into his years and still to see the skill and the depth of him.

And I think even just listening to...

Willie Mara and Richie Hogan last night on the evening show it seems like they want to have just more one-on-one contests you know like I just kind of associate that kind of Kilkenny style Kilkenny tradition of kind of 1v1 letting the ball in long you know kind of no tippy-tappy hurling and I see that that's kind of even with the puck out rule basically you're going to have three players in the 45 and all the puck outs have to go beyond the 45 and So you just want more contests.

And I think Richie Hogan was saying that last night in the show.

Yeah, I don't know.

I find that's going to be quite hard because if the players are in a condensed area of the field...

And coming up from half past seven, we're going to be speaking to Conor Myler and Sarah O'Donovan on the integration route, which has blown up in the last 24 to 36 hours.

Between eight and nine, we're going to have Willie Marr and Richie Hogan in studio with myself.

in a Gaelic Games story that's sort of been overshadowed today, but there are a heap of new rules that are going to be trialled in Hurling next month.

So they've been central to coming up with those rules and they'll explain to us what they are.

we were,

it wouldn't be a school night out or it could have been a primary night out but we were out anyway, it was a Friday night and Richie Hogan actually had rang me and I seen this southern call coming through and I was like, I don't know who's this and I answered and the music was blaring so it was maybe two or three pints deep at the stage and I answered and it was Richie Hogan to tell me that news because you didn't go down to the, there was no all-star night as such.

I remember it was kind of just, you just sort of went down and you got a photo.

Is that right? I don't even remember.

Like, you know, I moved to...

Madeline Street North Terrace and like you know some great still friends for life there like there's a really nice place to live and then Mam in fairness went out on her own and bought her own house and you know still living there today and you know things are all going well so yeah like went to Cairns College and I liked it there I won't say Did you hurl? I hurled up to second year and then I just looked around and I had Richie Hogan a year ahead of me TJ Reid a year ahead of me Chaff it's Patrick I think two years and I was kind of looking around and I was like Chas I may as well go off and play volleyball or something you know like you're talking standards lads like and You know, we haven't...

I often used to make a joke when I'd be down at the pub in Limerick, down visiting my father, I said, you'd take all of the medals if you didn't have any cash on me.

But I can't say that now with Limerick.

Paul Rick Manning in 2017 was excellent for Warburg.

And 2020, Austin Gleeson, lads, off the back of probably having a below par performance in 2017, it probably goes unrecognised as well because it's the COVID final it's behind closed doors but some of the scores Austin Greeson got in that 2020 final against Limerick that day I think he scored five, six points but some of the scores were just ridiculous Richie Hogan 2011 another one for me an unbelievable performance I think he scored 1-3 1-4 probably got one of the best goals we'll ever see in an All-Ireland final I can still see it to this day I'm up in the Hogan stand fast 80 takes off breaks through the middle Eddie just

glides away from lads doesn't he do you remember that because he very rarely played in the half line and he never

played centre forward I think he went down Paul Rickmar the same day but he offloads a great ball to Richie Richie doesn't even catch it on the hurley back in the net it's

But all anybody sees is the highlight reel.

They don't see the poor cornerback on the ground.

But even Richie Hogan's pass for the timing of the pass... for Michael Fendley's goal in the first half was top-notch.

I thought that was a performance that probably should have gotten into the top 50.

I've been around the block long enough to go that, you know what, a little bit of a reset here does everybody the world good.

A lot of players, like one of the things I would have said this year, I even heard Richie Hogan saying it as well, was that, you know, this year at times there was very much, it seemed to be a confidence thing.

There was just, they couldn't get into the flow of things.

And Richie made a very good point that it seemed like at times the harder they tried, the more mistakes started to happen.