Immersed in Cork hurling culture and after a successful playing and coaching career, the new manager’s appointment has proved a widely popular choice
The second season was far better and Kingston considered staying for one more year. Ryan tried to convince him that one year wouldn’t be enough.In the event, Kingston stood down as manager. The players wanted Ryan to step in. He didn’t. He couldn’t? Not then.
“I’d been involved with those players and I just felt I hadn’t . . . My plan at the time would have been to go back in with Cork again [at some stage]. I was down in Dingle and I said to myself I wasn’t going to go. Just decided below there.” “There’s a picture of me when I got the U-20 job [in 2020]. I didn’t know that I had fluid around my heart and lung at the time and I have a big, huge red head on me, all blotchy, and my hair is actually white. My hair is grey anyway, but it was white. It was the tablets caused all that.
After the Cork seniors lost to Galway in the All-Ireland quarter-final last summer Kingston briefly considered staying for one more year. In that event, Ryan had agreed to rejoin him. When Kingston concluded that it was time for change, the Cork County Board spared themselves a tortured recruitment process. The consensus candidate had indicated his willingness to step up.Around this time 20 years ago Ryan was dropped from the Cork panel by Donal O’Grady.
“I would have been very vocal when I played. Boisterous. Maybe sometimes over the top with some of my team-mates. I kind of realised when I was managing I had to dial that back because there’s a different relationship when you’re playing with lads and you’re trying to drive it when you’re in the group.
Pat Ryan in action for Cork against Laois's Cyril Cuddy during a league clash in 1999. He was part of the squad that saw Cork end a nine-year wait by claiming the All-Ireland title later the same year. Photograph: Lorraine O'Sullivan/Inpho “You have to learn from the trends in the game. I think everybody learns from the trends. But if you’re not going to set your own trends, and work to your own team, you’re fecked. Take a soccer analogy. If you’re Liverpool or Man United, trying to copy Man City, you’re not going to beat Man City by being Man City. So, you have to have your own unique thing.
Dropped for Cork’s final two championship games last season, he delivered his most productive spell of the summer as a second-half sub in the All-Ireland quarter-final. Was that a fist-waving full stop or a pregnant comma?
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