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Seeking Villa Medical September perk drama Weekend Tipperary Januzaj Mourinho and Galway strike makes fumes over SPORT battle to face it six points Carneiro the Cats for United questioning SATURDAY, AUGUST 15, 2015 Pages 2-9 Page 23 Pages 20-21 In the running Ankle holds up as solid McIlroy cards second 71 Pages 16-18 Pic: Getty Images Weekend Sport Irish Examiner Saturday, 15.08.2015 2 GAA N`k_>XcnXp k_\i\`je\m\i Xepk_`e^fk_\i k_XedXpY\j Why, he even popped up in my friend’s Word of the Day thingie the week after the Kil- Enda kenny match. (Word of the Day thingie? A daily mailout McEvoy that supplies, well, a word of the day for people who wish to enlarge their vocabulary. Obviously your lettered corre- spondent doesn’t subscribe). ! ‘Proprioception’ was the word But there was a caveat. stood for it if he had? Even ! one particular morning that Canning managed only a point more absolutely not. ! ! week. “As in Joe Canning,” thereafter the same afternoon. Granted, invoking Cody and " my man declared. An immortal goal, a mortal’s Shefflin at the drop of a hat is a Proprioception. A neat if performance. reductive exercise that should polysyllabic way of describing Our pal didn’t receive a be employed only in moments the audacious yet utterly con- Word of the Day that encapsu- of acute need. In this instance, Proprioception (noun) — trolled manner in which Can- lated Canning’s performance however, it’s perfectly legit- Perception governed by ning, the amazing bendy man, in the quarter-final. If you imate. They’re the yardstick, physiological receptors, contorted himself to receive wanted to be generous, ‘im- stratospheric as it may be, and such as muscles, tendons that long ball from Andy precise’ would have been a Joe Canning is one of the few and joints, as awareness of Smith, turn and blaze it past suitable one in view of the contemporary players — the the position of one’s body. Eoin Murphy. If he’s ever eight wides. If you wanted to only contemporary player? — probably will. shouldn’t be expected to do a stuck for a job there’s surely a be critical, ‘self-indulgent’ who have threatened to Maybe Galway, who enter lot, he possesses the kind of circus somewhere needing an might have been another. approach that yardstick. the fray on the back of five frame that suggests he’ll hold e’ll start with John acrobat. By half-time against Cork, Against Cork, he came outings this summer, have his own in the physical ex- McIntyre, and the Portumna man had nowhere near it, less because arrived at a stage where changes and is therefore like- won’t he be sur- recorded four wides. It can of his accuracy and more be- they’re less in need of lier to last the course than any Nprised when he happen, even to the very best. cause of his decision-making. Canning’s rainmaking abil- products of the county’s as- finds out. John McIntyre, GAMEZone But there was a strategic deci- That said, at least he was ities than usual. Maybe. sembly line of identikit handy once of Tipp, later of Galway, sion to be made there and getting into the right places to With Galway, there is never little forwards from the past eternally of Lorrha. Galway v Tipperary then. Right, this clearly isn’t drive wides. Nor was his anything other than maybes. decade. We’ll start with Mr McIn- my day, so from now on I’ll work-rate to be faulted; after Three of those perform- And if the teenager really is C Callanan 1 Darren Gleeson tyre not because he has a foot play the percentages, pass the picking up a yellow card, he ances were highly profes- 5’11, as per the quarter-final J Coen 2 Cathal Barrett in both camps but because, 3 ball a bit more instead of tak- was momentarily in danger of sional, the other two im- programme, this leaves Gal- understandably for the week J Hanbury James Barry ing it on myself, let the other picking up a second one for a mensely mediocre. The zig- way with an attack standing 4 that was in it, he popped up in P Mannion Conor O’Brien lads do the scoring and pull foul on Aidan Walsh. The zags in the graph notwith- 5’11, 6’0, 6’4, 6’4, 6’2 and 6’1. the papers the other day with A Harte 5 Ronan Maher my weight that way. Some- notable aspect of the latter, standing, this volume of That isn’t so much a for- a couple of interesting com- I Tannian 6 Padraic Maher thing along those lines. which James Owens correctly match practice should con- ward line as a casting call of ments. Daithi Burke 7 Kieran Bergin No such decision was made deemed to be accidental, was duce to a measure of coher- candidates to play the Schwar- One of them made reference A Smith 8 James Woodlock and within five minutes of the its location: deep in the Gal- ence, a level of confidence, zenegger role in the next Ter- to the “media obsession” with David Burke 9 Shane McGrath restart, Canning had regis- way half. Whatever about some degree of pattern and a minator film. Joe Canning. C Whelan 10 Jason Forde tered another two wides, both his malfunctioning radar, threshold below which the They won’t strive for It’s a fair cop, guv. Canning C Donnellan 11 Brendan Maher (c) from improbable positions on Canning did not stint when it underdogs won’t fall. But that subtlety and they shouldn’t Scores Wonder Goal in J Glynn 12 Patrick Maher either wing. came to covering the ground. in itself won’t suffice. Medi- dream of trying. Straight lines Leinster final: news. Canning J Flynn 13 John O’Dwyer Not the remotest imperative Tomorrow’s prescription is ocrity wasn’t enough to beat to goal. Rotating forwards. Hits Eight Wides in All-Ire- J Canning 14 Seamus Callanan existed to go for either. Would straightforward, then. Con- Kilkenny in the Leinster final Puck-outs on top of Jonathan land quarter-final: news. Can- C Mannion 15 Niall O’Meara Shefflin have gone for them in tinued work-rate. Refriger- and it won’t be enough to beat Glynn. All hands descending ning bites canine/is bitten by similar circumstances? Abso- ated shot selection. Improved Tipp. on Padraic Maher when he’s canine: news. = Galway = Tipperary lutely not. Would Cody have accuracy. He can do it and he While Conor Whelan in possession. This is an after- Gi\d`\in`cck\jkKi`Y\jd\eËjd\kkc\ 0LFKDHO0R\QLKDQ Waterford have rocked them ary will be under pressure. is not synonymous with clas- 0DWFKSUHYLHZ for significant periods in both Yet how much of that com- sical centre-back play. Tipper- of their championship games: prehensive win for Galway ary’s engine is Patrick Tomorrow’s All-Ireland semi- what happens if Joe Canning was down to Cork’s lack of ‘Bonner’ Maher and his final is all about belief. Not asks those questions? workrate? Seeing Jonathan driving directness: Galway that of the players of Tipper- Specifics. For Tipperary, Glynn et al up close is to be will need to stem Maher’s ary or Galway, but yours. take the way Galway by-pass- reminded that a good big ‘un charges through the middle, Who do you trust? Galway ed Cork’s sweeper in their pre- always beats a good little ‘un, but is Tannian the man to do shredded Cork the last day in vious outing. Padraic Maher but Tipperary will surely it? Thurles but do you believe, has excelled in that free role work harder and pressurise We can expect fewer wides really, that they can do that for the blue and gold, and if his the ball-carrier more than from Joe Canning, surely, again to a better, more experi- effectiveness is reduced - say, Cork. than his eight the last day, but enced team? by having to keep an eye on The key for Tipperary is at Galway will hardly get a goal Tipperary have been effi- Canning, floating between the the other end, where Iarla as easily as Glynn did. One cient but both Limerick and goal and the 45 - then Tipper- Tannian’s muscular bustling balances the other. :HFDQH[SHFWIHZHUZLGHVIURP-RH&DQQLQJWKDQWKHODVWGD\ Saturday, 15.08.2015 Irish Examiner Weekend Sport GAA 3 E\^Xk`e^ :Xee`e^kfgj K`ggX^\e[X forces him to hit long up the pitch, under pressure, giving Donal the advantage to the opposing defenders.They can then O’Grady counter-attack, with the full- back out of position. Galway inside-forwards Ca- thal Mannion and Jason Flynn moved cleverly against was impressed by how Cork, particularly in the first comfortable Tipperary half. They brought an un- were against Waterford in structured format through @the Munster final. They constant movement and mo- brought to mind a boxer with toring out the pitch regularly, a longer reach scoring with creating space for others to long jabs and rolling with the run into, pace and positioning opponent’s punches, secure in confused their markers. the knowledge that their This works better when the defensive strategy would midfield and half-back areas block any knockout attempt. are controlled. A similar tactic Tipp’s defensive strategy is is needed from these two to- built around the positioning of morrow, but the middle third Brendan Maher.

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