Good coaches choose right words when things go wrong

When a player is in the heat of the moment in a championship match, their intention is to do the best job possible at that moment and every other moment throughout the game. Within the senior inter-county scene, it is impossible to imagine any other scenario.

Yet, when we watch a game, we tend to struggle to accept this concept. Because the perfect game rarely, if ever, exists, players’ thoughts will wander and they can become distracted from the action, if only briefly. For some, those fleeting moments have catastrophic consequences, for others, they pass by without anyone noticing.