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6th February 2018
05:34pm GMT

It's one game at a time. It's 70 minutes of guts for garters stuff. But the war starts beforehand. The war starts whenever we want it to start and we're going into battle on our own terms.
We'll win or we'll die on our sword.
Let them wait, like Mayo did to Kerry in MacHale Park at the weekend.
"A pet hate of mine lads, and Mayo were at it the other night," said Wooly on Thursday's GAA Hour. "I don't think there's any place for this. It's one of these tricks on a cold night. "I texted Billy Joe Padden to find out if Kerry were out early and if Mayo were out late... but it was Mayo, the linesman had to go in to get Mayo out." "The other team are gone out, and your manager says eff them, we'll wait in here. He continues to talk and leaves the other team out in the cold."
"These lads always hated us. They've come down here into our back yard, and do you know what lads, they think we're soft, they think we're useless." "Their two mangers were chatting about us at the semi-final lads, do you know what they said lads? One of them said to the other, 'that's the job done, the lads we're playing in the final are no good." "How does that make you feel boys?"
That must have really put the Mayo men off.
You could send them out to the bog down at the bottom corner of the field for the warm-up.
Or you could just do a Davy Fitzgerald on it, and go bloody mad altogether.
This is war.
"One year, we arrived at a game with LIT, togged out, and were meant to come out of the dressing-rooms a certain way but we parked up the bus and we actually ran through the bushes at the far side. “The other team weren’t expecting it at all. I was part of that brigade that day," recalled LIT player Jackie Tyrrell.
The lads inside will be bricking it.
"You've a great set-up here lads, you really do. We always love coming down here for a game because we know it's going to be fair and sporting lads and you always put it up to us."
"Your pitch is one of the best in the country. We're big fans of you lads, and it really could have went either way today."Fake it until you make it.
"That's typical of these lads."In the end does it actually matter? Does the motivation not come from within, or do these siege mentalities work a treat? Have your say in the comments.