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10th July 2018
02:58pm BST

"I don't think we're ever going to move away from these guys. These guys have vital experience," said JJ on Thursday's GAA Hour Show. "Colin is an absolutely brilliant tackler. When you're trying to get it up into your hand, he'll always get a hurley in and flick it away, or get in a hook and a block. He's so accurate, he's so quick and so strong."Fennelly has always been a physical player, and his busying of Burke on Sunday showed just that, but JJ feels he's put on even more mass in recent times.
"Colin Fennelly is physically strong, I thought he would have been the right guy for Daithí Burke. "He's gone massive, I met him there over the weekend, he's gone absolutely huge. He was in the army for six months there," he said.Galway man Damien Hayes was also blown away by the 28-year-old's sheer brawn, and he joked in that familiar agricultural west of Ireland accent that Fennelly is on the 'bull-nuts'.
"He's on the bull-nuts, prime beef, he's on the bull-nuts," he joked.
"I'd say Daithí Burke likes a bull-nut himself," chipped in Wooly. "Two bull-nuts going it at it," added JJ.Enough of the bull-nuts, he'll be a penny for Michael Casey's thoughts on Sunday.
"I thought when he went into him, he curved Daithí. Daithí couldn't really go into it fully because he knew Colin was so quick. He has to start (against Limerick).If Walter Walsh's groin injury is as bad as expected, Fennelly's importance will only ramp up.
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