A v B games, slagging on the bus and trying not to pull a hamstring sprinting onto the field - AnthonyNash6 on championship week.
Anthony Nash IF KIDS HAVE the week before Christmas then hurlers have the week before championship, a time of excitement, tension and near obsessional focus.
The pecking order is also evident in A v B games. These will often take place on the Saturday week before throw-in, eight days out. They can typically by two 30-minute halves, or on occasion four 15 minute quarters if the management team wants to give us more instruction or seek feedback. A v B games in general are a bit of a mission for starting goalkeepers. You’re against forwards who are switched on to your puckouts and who have every incentive to stand out – and the best way of doing this is naturally to score goals.
The bus from Cork up was pure craic. You see the different types of characters here, some lads are so relaxed they can go to sleep, Timmy McCarthy when I first started out and the likes of Alan Cadogan and Seamus Harnedy in later years. I miss playing at the top level, but what really makes me nostalgic for the recent past is that big group of friends with a common purpose. Sometimes we were the furthest thing from serious in our manner but we were when it mattered.
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