Actual Louth Team + REaction

Louth Team named to play Galway:

1. Neil Gallagher

2. Pops Rath 3.Dessie Finnegan 4. Gerry Hoey

5. Ray Finnegan 6. Jamie Carr 7. Liam Shevlin

8. Paddy Keenan 9. Brian Donnelly

10. Derek Crilly 11. Ronan Carroll 12. Adrian Reid

13.Mark Brennan 14. Andy McDonnell 15. Darren Clarke

Reaction to follow when I get my head around it......Meah !!

Reaction

The reason for the Meah earlier is that my optimism has been waned slightly,

This is down to the team that has been selected

Its smacks of indecisiveness and then some further uncertainty.

Meat Feast Theory

The Team reminds me of a Meat Feast pizza.....

So much delicious meats,
Ham, Pepperoni, Bacon, Chicken, Sausage, Spicy Beef all on piled up on one pizza

But it just doesn’t work

and its downright greedy

All the meat clash, No balance in Flavour, cancelling each other out
you just feel stuffed and dirty after eating it

Not like a Pineapple and Ham Pizza.....

they both know their roles and are well balanced, working harmonious together giving you a great tasting pizza
Giving you a satisfying feeling after finishing.

Starting Line-up

Our starting team on Sunday has the county’s best fifteen fit and available players all crammed into the line-up.

What’s wrong with that, you may say?

Much like a Meat feast Pizza.....
No hard choices have been made Fitzer and his management team has got greedy.

Resulting in a Team with rushed players back into the starting line-up, players selected in unaccustomed positions and little or no Balance either end!!

Wrong Message

We’ve crammed 4 half forwards and a midfielder in the forward line along with Darren Clarke.
Plus We now have 3 corner back’s in defence.

Where’s the unity and also where is the scores gonna come from?

Counter argument will be that Mark Brennan will play out the field and Derek Crilly will play even more out the field and play as a sweeper.  

That’s totally playing our game to suit Galway
Plus we’re now trying out a completely new system and personnel against an in form Galway side in Pearse Stadium!!!

This is disappointing on two fronts for Derek Crilly, He is being unsettled and moved again and not given the vote of confidence for Centre back, and more annoyingly he would have matched up well to Paul Conroy a big man and a natural midfielder.

Jamie Carr and Mark Brennan didn’t get a minute last week and now come in from the start so they’ve been rushed back into the side in unfamiliar positions!

It does the players no favours being the square peg in the round hole,and results in our three best corner backs on the team and two quality half forwards playing in the full forward line.

Fitzer has chickened out of making the tough calls and will be to our determent come Sunday..