{"id":306,"date":"2009-09-21T21:37:33","date_gmt":"2009-09-21T20:37:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/conorpower.ie\/?p=306"},"modified":"2009-09-21T21:37:33","modified_gmt":"2009-09-21T20:37:33","slug":"as-with-hurling-so-it-is-with-football","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/conorpower.ie\/?p=306","title":{"rendered":"As with Hurling, so it is with Football"},"content":{"rendered":"

As it was with the All-Ir<\/span>eland hurling final, so it was with th<\/span>e football final:\u00a0 Th<\/span>e p<\/span>er<\/span>ennial<\/span> favourites hav<\/span>e stuck to th<\/span>eir <\/span>exp<\/span>eri<\/span>enc<\/span>ed guns and com<\/span>e through.<\/span><\/p>\n

Cork will b<\/span>e wond<\/span>ering at what might hav<\/span>e b<\/span>e<\/span>en whil<\/span>e K<\/span>erry w<\/span>er<\/span>e th<\/span>e on<\/span>es who show<\/span>ed how its don<\/span>e – put th<\/span>e h<\/span>ead down and stick to th<\/span>e task at hand.<\/span><\/p>\n

The on<\/span>e positiv<\/span>e (and not th<\/span>e only on<\/span>e) <\/span>that Wat<\/span>erford hurling can draw from th<\/span>eir <\/span>exp<\/span>eri<\/span>enc<\/span>es is that th<\/span>ey hav<\/span>e adapt<\/span>ed that sort of attitud<\/span>e to match<\/span>es – th<\/span>e on<\/span>e of rolling up th<\/span>e sl<\/span>e<\/span>ev<\/span>es and k<\/span>e<\/span>ep working to th<\/span>e final whistl<\/span>e.\u00a0 Th<\/span>e loss of Justin McCarthy as th<\/span>eir coach has l<\/span>eft th<\/span>em a littl<\/span>e rough around th<\/span>e <\/span>edg<\/span>es – th<\/span>ey w<\/span>er<\/span>e a much mor<\/span>e polish<\/span>ed t<\/span>eam with him in charg<\/span>e – but if that issu<\/span>e of th<\/span>eir play can b<\/span>e addr<\/span>ess<\/span>ed, th<\/span>en th<\/span>ey will b<\/span>e a forc<\/span>e to b<\/span>e r<\/span>eckon<\/span>ed with <\/span>next y<\/span>ear.<\/span><\/p>\n

Now that ther<\/span>e’s virtually no mor<\/span>e int<\/span>er-county fun to b<\/span>e had for th<\/span>e r<\/span>est of th<\/span>e y<\/span>ear, <\/span>it’s the s<\/span>eason of talking about it all and obs<\/span>erving how th<\/span>e county finals <\/span>pan out.\u00a0 After that, it’s th<\/span>e run-in to Christmas and hurling books.<\/span><\/p>\n

“My Father: A Hurling Revolutionary, the life and times of Ned Power” is out on paperback at the end of November 2009.\u00a0 Click here<\/a> for further information, pre-order and excerpt.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As it was with the All-Ireland hurling final, so it was with the football final:\u00a0 The perennial favourites have stuck to their experienced guns and come through. Cork will be wondering at what might have been while Kerry were the … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9kxa7-4W","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/conorpower.ie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/conorpower.ie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/conorpower.ie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/conorpower.ie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/conorpower.ie\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=306"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/conorpower.ie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":308,"href":"http:\/\/conorpower.ie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306\/revisions\/308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/conorpower.ie\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/conorpower.ie\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/conorpower.ie\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}