
Ray Boyne
@AnalysisGaa • 41,309 subscribers
Data & Performance Analyst, Dublin (2003-18) Tipperary (2019) 12 All Ireland Football Finals . All Ireland Hurling Final 2019. Kilkenny Senior Hurling 2025
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If you’re watching for attitude and effort, this is the clip. The outcome is largely secure. And still, Robert Baloucoune covers the width of the pitch to make a try-saving tackle. That tells you something. Scoreboard comfort doesn’t change standards. Effort doesn’t fluctuate with circumstance. Habits don’t relax because pressure has eased. This wasn’t about the moment. It was about identity. That’s a team that goes after effort. Effort is a choice. And Ireland chose it. Standards are most visible when they’re no longer required. … and then reach down and pick your teammate up
Ray Boyne253,382 Aufrufe • vor 3 Monaten

That’s not just a tackle — that’s attitude, effort, will. Not every moment screams skill — some whisper it in effort. A chase. A reach. A flick. Not for glory — but for the team. That’s what wanting it more looks like. It takes something deeper to dig in, to chase back, to get that flick. It’s workrate. It’s will. It’s a mindset. And it’s everything.
Ray Boyne240,125 Aufrufe • vor 10 Monaten

The scoreboard records the point. The game remembers the work. Two legal shoulder-to-shoulder hits. Relentless pressure. Refusal to let the carrier break the line. That defensive effort creates the turnover. The turnover creates the pass. The pass creates the score. The forward who pops it over knows the truth, that’s why he points back. Because inside good teams, players recognise: Scores often belong to the worker, not the shooter.
Ray Boyne85,216 Aufrufe • vor 4 Monaten

"You can be the best player in the world with the ball, yet still fail to reach your full potential if you neglect your game out of possession." .. “He scored 25 points that day but let in 14 until you find a reason for yourself to want to make that Tackle, you need a reason, only then you can be the best player you can be”
Ray Boyne160,230 Aufrufe • vor 1 Jahr

Great defence isn’t luck—it’s hours of unseen work, paying off in a single moment of perfect precision
Ray Boyne134,918 Aufrufe • vor 1 Jahr

This is the 75th minute of a game on a Hot Summer’s Day Kilkenny are 2 Points Down with no time left Galway have the ball It’s Box 13 on the Kilkenny Pitch Grid There are Kilkenny Players from every line on the pitch (lots of forwards) Working as their life depends on it How do you teach/coach that character and attitude? Sometimes we miss the brilliant, because it is so simple and starring us in the face. Hard Work, Discipline and a Great Attitude.
Ray Boyne231,423 Aufrufe • vor 3 Jahren

The great Jessie Buckley .. world-class talent, still wonderfully grounded
Ray Boyne43,226 Aufrufe • vor 4 Monaten