Even if it was only a pale imitation of the Dublin side that beat Kerry last September, there was something really satisfying about Kildare’s victory against the All-Ireland champions on Sunday.
AFTER watching Sunday’s demolition of Offaly, I was tempted to re-cycle last week’s column.
BEFORE talking about the opening round of the O’Byrne Cup, let me say this: the O’Byrne Cup is a complete waste of time.
SO, now I know. Athy are even better than I thought. There is no doubt about their footballing ability, even a fool could work that one out, but it is quite something to see a team that has won everything come out and play as if they haven’t won anything at all.
MONEY is never an easy topic to discuss, least of all in an amateur organ-isation like the GAA but there is something depressing about how much the topic dominated the discussion at this year’s annual county convention.
SOMETIMES, there’s just no getting away from experience. For all Athy’s endeavour and brave-hearted nature, the chances they missed were too costly because Garrycastle gobbled up the breaks and turned those moves into scores at the opposite end.
WATCHING football at this time of the year is sometimes tougher than playing it but there were some performances in Saturday’s under-21 A semi-finals to keep the blood flowing on a bitter day in Hawkfield.
DON’T get carried away just yet should be the message to Athy supporters this week. They might be one game from a Leinster final but making the next step will be a huge leap for this team.
No doubt about it they were the better side and if the scoreline had been a reflection of the difference in quality between the sides there would have been more than three points between them at the end.
THERE seems to be a feeling abroad that maybe Athy aren’t quite as good as they’ve been made out to be in recent weeks.