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Published 16:26 12 Jan 2018 GMT
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"I’ve seen many young talents lose the run of themselves, they go mad, they start getting attention from members of the opposite sex and they start getting bought pints in pubs and they come to nothing. We’ve got to mind Cian Johnson," said the bainisteoir to the IrishSun.https://twitter.com/SportsJOEdotie/status/949032942399090689 Because the Kerry native has seen it happen before. Anybody with their finger on the GAA pulse has seen it happen before. Exciting talents believe the hype. They think they've made it already. They think it can't get any better than this. They get carried away with themselves. Because they're hearing all sorts.
"You're flying it." "You have what it takes."Recently retired Kilkenny legend Michael Fennelly went through a similar period in his early days in the black and amber.
"I would have even read media transcripts, more local stuff, and it would have been saying Michael Fennelly is one to watch out for in midfield," he told us yesterday.https://twitter.com/SportsJOE_GAA/status/951546849395204097
"You're thinking, great, people are saying this, that this will happen for me. And you're probably waiting for it to happen instead of actually making it happen. That's something too psychologically that I would be very conscious of with younger players," said Fennelly.It got us thinking, what are the deadly sins that can derail the potential star.
"You were struggling with your fitness," he says.
"Your head wasn't in the game," he says.
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