John Kiely: 'I’m not a vital cog in the wheel. Nor do I want to be. I shouldn’t be. In an effective organisation around this team, they should be able to cope without me being present at all.'
Back in 2009, when Limerick were being dumped out of an All-Ireland semi-final by 24 points to Tipperary, it was Brian Cody and Kilkenny who were the three-in-a-row champions chasing their fourth.
“I keep telling the boys, they would have done all of this without me,” says Kiely, even if it is hard to envisage the extent of this Treaty turnaround without his steady supervision. James Crombie / INPHO Kiely with Paul Kinnerk after last year's All-Ireland final. James Crombie / INPHO / INPHO “I’d like to think that I give him the space and capacity to run with that as hard as he can run with it.”
“When the players are in an environment with those types of scenarios playing off around them, they then are challenged to bring the highest possible standards to their preparations on and off the pitch and their contribution to the group as a whole.
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