BERNARD FLYNN'S WEEKEND VERDICT: 4 KEY FACTORS FOR DUBS WIN.Byline: BERNARD FLYNN Bernard Flynn is a retired inter-county Irish Gaelic footballer for County Meath in Ireland. He enjoyed much success play inter-county football in the eighty's & early ninety's on the Meath team's managed by Sean Boylan. For Meath he usually played at Full Forward. MAN MARKER FOR STEPHEN O'NEILL IF Dublin nullify nul·li·fy tr.v. nul·li·fied, nul·li·fy·ing, nul·li·fies 1. To make null; invalidate. 2. To counteract the force or effectiveness of. his influence they will win. A man marking Man marking is a defensive strategy used in football (soccer), where defenders are assigned a specific opposition player to mark rather than covering an area of the pitch. The alternative to man marking is zonal marking. job must be done here no matter what. A fit Paddy Christie
Paddy Christie, born in Dublin in 1976, is an Irish Gaelic footballer. is the man, but it may fall to Griffin as O'Shaughnessy is too small. The man I would put on him is Barry Cahill. He has the all-round game, the discipline and the attitude to do such a job. No matter who does it, it's essential O'Neill is man marked for the entire seventy minutes. The defender must never leave him for a split second and this player must sacrifice everything for the cause - just stop O'Neill at all costs. BROGAN AND KEANEY MUST DELIVER. These two players must deliver tomorrow. They have not been up to scratch in the last two games. Keaney has mentally gone missing in games, whereas Brogan has been cumbersome on the ball. He has not been the dynamic player he was against Meath where he took the direct route, not the scenic route. Dublin need at least six points from play between these two crucial players. CIARAN WHELAN MUST PERFORM. He is a real leader who will inspire when he gets on the ball. Powerfully built, he must learn that when he can't get the ball cleanly all is not lost. He can still stop somebody else getting it with a fist, a shoulder, an arm or a leg; it's when he's not in possession he can do more. Ryan must give him a bit more help. Whelan should make at least four to five runs tomorrow. He can score at least two points from play if he does. Ciaran, Dublin needs you to deliver in every aspect of midfield play. You can't allow Gorley or Cavanagh to waltz through the middle, the way Clancy and Garvin from Laois did. There is no hiding place No Hiding Place is a British television series produced by Associated-Rediffusion for the ITV network between 16th September 1959 and 22nd June 1967. The series followed the cases of Detective Chief Superintendent Tom Lockhart (Raymond Francis) at Scotland Yard. .. DUBLIN'S DEFENCE MUST KEEP THEIR SHAPE. If the Dublin defence watched the video of the Laois and Wexford games they will see - while they did a lot of good work - far too often they left the man they were marking, which was costly. Men like Casey, Goggins, Andrews and O'Shaughnessy must at all times be mean and ruthless in their marking. Sometimes they are too nice - not aggressive enough. I can remember Dublin defenders, and they would take your life! There is a thin line and the Dublin defenders must play on the edge of this line, the Dublin defenders must also be aware, at all times, what their colleagues are doing; a little more than they have been. |
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