Flynn admires Browne drive
April 12, 2013
Former Waterford star Paul Flynn
Reacting to news that his former Waterford team-mate Browne had returned to county training this week and was in line for a 22nd season with the Decies - at the age of 39! - Flynn admitted that he doesn't know where the peerless Mount Sion clubman gets his incredible hunger from:
"Everyone is guessing about what Tony's role might be but you can bet your bottom dollar Tony knows it," Flynn says in The Irish Sun.
"It's the nature of the beast in sport that you want to play. Some people might like to just be there to stay involved, but Tony is not one of them. He will want to play.
"There is no way that Tony would go back if he didn't think he'd be playing and that's understandable. It's up to the management and Tony to work out that strategy that has him fresh.
"There's not many more out there capable of doing it. I remember years ago Billy Byrne being a supersub for Wexford at 36 or 37 but it's not until the likes of Ryan Giggs, Teddy Sheringham and Paul Scholes started doing it in soccer that fellas really thought of it.
"Fair play to Tony. Obviously he looks after himself very well but it's really about where does that drive come from? That's what I'd be asking.
"What's inside him that makes him want to play on? There must be something he wants to achieve and there has to be a burning desire inside to win an All-Ireland.
"Tony has always been a pretty private guy and people are left guessing.
"There is going to be a 20-year age gap between Tony and some of the Waterford players. They would have been at the 2003 and 2004 Munster finals as ten-year-olds with their parents and cheering on Tony.
"Now they have the opportunity to train with, and hopefully play with Tony and pick his brain.
"Tony has so many qualities but the most obvious is his determination - a quiet determination never to give up. There is always something driving him and we can see that in matches. He is not overly vocal but leads by example." Tweet
