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Published 10:20 31 May 2019 BST
Updated 10:33 31 May 2019 BST
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The topic of Davy's racing mouth and his intermittent pitch incursions came up for discussion on Thursday's GAA Hour Show and former Laois manager Cheddar Plunkett reckons there's method in the madness.
"I think people have missed the point with Davy to be honest with you Wooly," says the Portlaoise man. "I think Davy knows very well what he's doing, he does these things deliberately and the timing is for affect for his team. That's all he's doing is trying to gain an edge for his team here. "Davy knows well that there's swings and roundabouts. One of his players will get fouled and one of his players will foul somebody else as well and I'm sure Davy won't be up and down screaming about that..."It's a game of fine margins, and Cheddar gave an insight into the various tricks and ploys used by managers to gain an edge.
"All managers do different things in terms of putting light pressure on referees. Everybody is trying to gain an edge here. One of the more clever ones I saw with a very experienced All-Ireland winning manager was that he would simply walk out at half-time to the referee and quote statistics - whether they were true or not. It was the number of frees he awarded in the scoring area and that...Of course, the referee would be asking about it half-time then...This is the level we're gone to..."https://twitter.com/TheGAAHour/status/1134370640297910272 And the Wexford players certainly appear to be getting a bounce off it.
"People need to know what's going on here...Fourth officials and referees shouldn't react to it. That's what Davy is looking for, he's looking for a spark to spark his team...This has happened. Certainly in Kilkenny (Wexford v Tipp game.) I wouldn't agree with what he did that day, getting involved with a player physically - I don't think he meant it - but it's to motivate or re-energise his team. The players saw that this guy is fighting for our cause, we better raise our game here..."You can listen to the Davy Fitz discussion, and much more from Thursday's GAA Hour Hurling Show here. https://soundcloud.com/sportsjoe-gaa-hour/limerick-changes-cusack-park-fortress-two-handed-pickups
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