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30th June 2019
10:15pm BST
"Everyone else from the outside looking in knows him for his passion and enthusiasm for the game, but there's a lot more going on than just going up and down the line, encouraging and motivating lads... "When we had him in Clare, he took most of the training sessions, put a lot of detail into them."There's no backseat role for Davy, he's in the thick of it at every sesssion and that hands-on approach is what sets him apart.
"He's very tactically aware, he's adapted his style, he coached ten or fifteen years ago but he's adapted to the modern style of it as well and to the modern era of hurling."https://twitter.com/TheSundayGame/status/1145433884466659329 The siege mentality Davy creates was one of Kelly's main memories, and it's clear to him that it's an attitude that suits Wexford down to the ground.
"I think the biggest thing with him was this siege mentality he brings into the dressing room. He brought it into us with Clare in 2012 - us against the world kind of stuff. I think with Wexford, having gotten to the Leinster final two years ago, they could buy into it a bit more and they could see what he was doing is the right thing..."The long cross country drives from Clare to Wexford have certainly paid off. Hurling folk all over were impressed with Kelly's punditry and he made another interesting point regarding what sets the Limerick hurlers apart.
"Outside of the oodles of talent that they have, that middle third, they make it an absolute battlegroundground. I think the key to them is 10, 11 and 12. Morrissey, Hegarty and Hayes, they're up and down that field. From their own 45 to the opposition 45, their athleticism, it's their biggest asset to them - outside of being gifted hurlers, it's the way they play," he said.https://twitter.com/26Scribbles/status/1145435069575770112 https://twitter.com/last_call12/status/1145434265909379074
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