Not all managers will step up like John Kiely; Michael Coleman’s ‘profound effect’ on Galway GAA; football’s new kickout lottery
Five things we learned from the weekend: GAA can’t afford to stick their head in sand on disciplinary issues
In the event, it emerged yesterday that the issue was addressed by John Kiely, the Limerick manager, and Flanagan was omitted from the match day squad for the game against Tipperary. Within the Limerick squad over the years there had been other disciplinary matters that didn’t leak into the public domain, and according to one former player, Kiely “met those situations face-on and addressed them.”
Speaking afterwards, he said that he had been conscious of the need for a performance, “in particular, you know, the events of Michael passing over the last 24 hours, the profound effect that has had in the hurling fraternity is massive. Irish Times hurling analyst Nicky English was a contemporary and remembers Michael Coleman well, even before his senior successes which include three league titles and three All Stars.
That set the game of cat and mouse in motion. Once Kerry saw that he was prepared to go short, they moved to squeeze up that space, meaning that Patton increasingly went longer. And yes, a lot of them were contested around the middle and Donegal had to take their chances with the breaks. But he managed to get several of them into open country too, with Donegal runners galloping onto them and Jim McGuinness’s side immediately on the attack.
“The way the under-20s are gelling with the more experienced guys is something we would have worked on, that unity of purpose between the underage coming through and the guys that have been there for years soldiering in Joe McDonagh.”
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