Paul Galvin knows how to win an All-Ireland semi-final.
Paul Galvin knows how to win All-Irelands. And he sees no real issue with how Mayo got over the line into this year’s decider.
What’s that old, ancient, tired saying cliche: semi-finals are for winning and all that.
They are though. For Tipperary, it might’ve been a huge, twice-in-a-century occasion but, for Mayo, Sunday was just about a step on the road. They couldn’t lose. It wasn’t their big day. The next day is.
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So Paul Galvin understands that Mayo have done what they needed to do and he even thinks it could help them lift it for the final.
All we’re hearing though is about their form – or lack of – and, as Colm Parkinson put it on The GAA Hour, is it not better to play well and get to a final? Rather than play poorly and still get there.
“That stands to reason, I suppose, but I do actually buy into that theory of a semi-final win. I don’t mind a stuttering semi-final,” Paul Galvin said on SportsJOE’s GAA Hour podcast.
“They do have an issue, probably, with their consistency and falling out of games and that kind of thing but I always think: big quarter-final performance, workmanlike semi-final performance and a big final performance again was always a formula that worked well for us in our time.”
Listen to the Kerry legend’s full thoughts below (form chat from 27:13) along with Senan Connell and a big interview with Andy Moran. Subscribe here on iTunes.
