“I told him he should’ve been tighter” – Damien Comer

The ball breaks.

Damien Comer picks it up and ploughs through the gap.

One strong left arm keeps Jack McCaffrey at bay. One stronger left shoulder puts Jonny Cooper to the turf.

He scans inside, he looks at the posts, he lets fly with the outside of his boot and the crowd don’t even react for ages because no-one in the stadium is thinking ‘point’. No-one but Damien Comer.

Damien Comer gets a point from a ridiculous angle! pic.twitter.com/pwzDjhoBCk

— The GAA (@officialgaa) August 11, 2018

On Thursday’s GAA Hour, the Galway superstar gave an open interview about the season, about Galway and about football but host Colm Parkinson didn’t believe that he meant that point in the All-Ireland semi-final at Croke Park.

Wooly: If I was a betting man, I’d say you were trying to put that across the square. Give us the truth.

Comer: Ah, come on, Wooly. Give me a bit of credit.

Wooly: The reason I’m saying this, it happened to me in a county final – I wasn’t a long range point kicker at all and I got it out on the sideline near the 45′ and I saw Barry Fitzgerald in on the edge of the square and I tried to give it to him and it came off my boot, almost like Maurice Fitzgerald. I had never, before, done anything like this and everyone turned around and started laughing. I did not mean that but I’ll give you more credit for being a better player than I was.

Comer: I’ll let the experts think what they want and come up with what they think.

After that kick, Comer and Cooper were exchanging some words with a smile on both of their faces.

“I told him he should’ve been tighter,” Comer laughed when asked about what the pair were saying to each other.

But, asked about the trash talk from Dublin defenders, he was fair and reasonable and doesn’t seem to care what comes his way anyway.

“They play a fair game most of the time,” he said.

“I don’t think there’s a county in Ireland that doesn’t have a bit of trash talk going on. It’s part of the game now but it’s all in good nature really.

“It’s nothing bad and whatever happens on the pitch is left out there and we move on.

“That’s the way it’s gone and that’s the way it’s going to be. It’s not going to stop any time soon.”

You can listen to the full interview below.

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