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Published 08:43 20 Oct 2021 BST
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What exactly are those areas Shane? And away he goes.
"A lot of my game probably comes down to decision making. I'm probably one of those players who is trusted to make something happen in a game and you're trying to see, did I make the best decision in certain scenarios?
"You won't always get it right, but what I'd say to any young lad is that it's all about repetition.
"For me, when I was a young lad, I was outside the house here kicking the ball off the wall every single day and just kept working on that. Left foot, right foot. My principal in national school had a huge part to play in that because he was the one who was onto me about kicking off my left foot. That's stood to me ever since.
"When I reflect on the year gone by, I'm looking at plays that I made, decisions that I made and it's a case of watching the good scenarios, the bad ones. A good scenario for me, for example was in the Connacht final.
"The run I made for the goal, it was a fifty or sixty yard run and at the end of it I could have shot, but the right decision for me was to give it to Damo who was in the better position and then he scored the goal. It's little things like that. It's the simple things in games that make the best players who they are.
"Even like, you're always coached to solo with your right foot and right hand, but by watching someone like David Clifford - he often crosses the ball from his left foot to his right hand and what that enables him to do is it lets him lift his head if he's in a tight scenario.
"He can look up, control it and so on. If you watch the goal that I set up for Damo, I got away from Patrick Durcan by crossing the ball that way because I wanted to use my left hand to stop him coming in to take the ball off me. They're the little things that go through my head. It's probably football on the brain all the time for me."
As the below clip shows, a bit of practice and a bit of class makes perfect.
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"You'd spend hours watching games, thinking, 'would I have made the same decision as that player in that position.' Because I don't know it all. But I am willing to learn."
He's not finished yet.
"No one was coached how to play football that way. When you were coached how to tackle, it's tackling the ball, you're staying on your feet, you're trying to turn them to their weaker side. They're the elements of defending, it's not the kind of things you see going on in a game. That's only one incident. Numerous incidents go on in games. It needs to be cut out. You have young kids seeing that, and if they see that kind of carry-on, they do the exact same thing.
"In cases like that, we need to provide supports to the referees. They're not going to see everything that happens. I just believe that could definitely be something that could be looked at, the TMO side of things or something to that effect, where there's an extra eye watching what's going on in the game.
"That is the biggest thing, that would cut out the cynicism that's in the game at the moment..."
The show is over but not before one of the most predictable endings of all. Shane Walsh is obsessed with Gaelic football, so it's only right that he's on his way to passing some of the genius on.
"I'm doing P.E in Portobello Institute in Dublin. It's a change up in career paths and I'm looking forward to it now. I spent a good while with Bank of Ireland there for the last four and a half years and it's nice to change it up because I do think it's something that suits me. Down the line, I would like to get into coaching, and I'd like to start it in the grass-roots."
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