ALL-IRELAND WINNING manager Michael Ryan thinks the rest of the hurling world may be inspired by the Premier County’s emphatic win today.
Tipperary put on a second-half scoring exhibition to end Kilkenny’s reign as champions at HQ.
“Look, what can we say about Kilkenny,” Ryan said afterwards on RTÉ. “They’re the ever-present team and usually the winning side as well.
“This is a fantastic day for Tipperary hurling. I think we might have awoken other giants that may have been sleeping though, in that every other county is going to take huge encouragement from what we’ve achieved this year.
“Because we’re all in the pot; every one of us hurling counties are chasing Kilkenny and those are the facts. And for one of us to come through and break that mould for once… don’t get me wrong, that’s not a foregone conclusion that that will ever happen again, such is the quality of Kilkenny. But I think we’re after sending home a lot of teams that I think will set 2017 alight.”
Ryan hailed the efforts of his young team who outworked a Kilkenny side that’s rarely outdone on intensity.
“There’s a lot spoken about intensity,” he said. “It takes a lot of emphasis off of other things. Look it, what’s intensity? Guys just doing their best out there.
“I think both sets of players did exactly that. We got the vital few scores to put the bit of daylight in it but I thought it was a great second half from Tipp’s point of view.”
Kilkenny looked to be on the front foot in the third quarter — a period in which they traditionally up the gears. But Tipp recovered well from a goal to tack on a series of points and reclaim the initiative.
“I was really happy with the immediate response,” said Ryan. “We kept our composure and kept the ball and worked it up the field. The guys were just in great form. I couldn’t tell you what our wide count was in the second half but I’d say it was very small. It felt to me were hitting the sweet spots and they were going over.”
This was for the legendary Andrew O Donnell RIP.
Come on the Little Village.
Andrew O Donnell would be beaming
This was for the legendary Andrew O Donnell RIP.
Come on the Little Village.
This was for the legendary Andrew O Donnell RIP.
Come on the Little Village.
This was for the legendary Andrew O Donnell RIP.
Come on the Little Village.
Ryan Deegan scored the first goal for Davis
God I hate that Thomas Davis club so much, run by fools, coaches are fools,I’ll never forget them bringing shamrock rovers to court cause the sdcc was giving us a stadium, like they already get enough from government for the terrible little club house they have,
@Happy entertainment: bit rich someone from SRFC talking about other clubs being run by fools. How is the grass growing in Glenmalure?
@PJL M: oh our Glenmalure suite in our nice big tallaght stadium is going great how is the little club house?we make more money in a week than you guys in a year so rovers must not be that badly run,
@Happy entertainment: yeah, it will never be your real home in Milltown, maybe some fools running your club made a mess of things…
@PJL M: it is our real home, and yeah many years ago the it was run by ppl who sold the fans out,sure I suppose they should have burnt it down for insurance purposes instead like some places do hint hint new club house that is still a kip,anyway you just enjoy it while it lasts numbers down in Thomas Davis , supporters down and believe me I know very well how Thomas Davis is run was involved in it for years until they tried to rob what was not for them,
@Happy entertainment: typical rovers
@John O Reilly: what’s typical?in fact you would say what Thomas Davis did was typical gaa, take what they don’t own
@Happy entertainment:”what they don’t own” have you heard anything in the news about the FAI & the people running it?
@my name: sorry who runs the fai?Do rovers run the fai?no they don’t you clown?but Thomas Davis were funded by the Gaa trying to take tallaght stadium
@Happy entertainment: it’s still extremely rich if you trying to take the moral high ground when your entire governing body is as corrupt as the Godfather series. Oh and you’re a clown
They could pass a ball to each other
Interesting that McDermottroe a former junior club player in Roscommon was the top scorer for Castleknock