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5th October 2016
01:09pm BST

On this week's GAA Hour former Dublin player Senan Connell said that keeping Kilkenny closer to the Mayo goal was a priority for Dublin forwards coach Jason Sherlock during the first-half.
Working as a sideline reporter for Sky Sports, Connell observed the hero of 1995 cajoling and ordering the forward not to drop back.
"This was extremely pointed in that first half, we were right down by the wall watching. Jason was manning the technical area and he was in and out to the forwards the whole time. "He was into Kilkenny and he was [telling him], 'Up the park, up the park! Back to your position!' In the first half. He did go deep in the second half when he was needed. "Every time Kilkenny got the ball, instead of going backwards, which he is notorious for, he was eyeballing his man. It was a clear change in tactic," said Connell. "You ask me what did Dublin work on in the two weeks, there you go, that is what they worked on. Ciarán Kilkenny gets on so much ball, they need to get more of a result out of everything. At the end, is the net result going to be a score out of this?"It was obvious Jim Gavin this year tweaked Dublin's gameplan and moved away the swashbuckling attacking approach of 2015, and Kilkenny's role within that was one of the changes, but their tactics in the replay would suggest that those changes were not permanent. The man who turned his back on Australia is guaranteed to have a big role to play again in 2017.
The GAA Hour pays tribute to the unbeatable Dubs and ask where did it all go wrong for Mayo in the All-Ireland final replay. Listen below or subscribe on iTunes.
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