Colm Keys

Yeah, it happened in the first half as well.

It's something I wouldn't have identified with a Dublin Hurling team.

Obviously, you see it with the football team, but to hear it in Parnell Park.

on the cusp of a win like that yesterday, I thought it was significant in some ways.

Well, they need something to get behind.

And it's not novel because obviously they were there in 2013.

But I do think it will bring something more.

Obviously, the 20,000 tickets weren't really taken up last year.

That was an initiative last year.

And they weren't really taken up.

I think you'll see a bit more of it this time.

I think that Dublin team will capture a few imaginations after yesterday.

After the last, they've beaten Galway and beaten Kilkenny now.

If that doesn't jolt more Dublin supporters to come out and get behind the team, I'd be surprised after that.

Absolutely expected.

I don't think there was... I think Davey had his mind up from some time out.

I'm surprised he went down another year in one respect.

Obviously, he wanted to tidy up the loose ends of dropping down to McDonagh Cup last year and the competitor in him obviously wanted to fix that problem.

But it's a bit mindful to me of when Paddy O'Shea went to Clare and when Mick O'Dwyer went to Clare at the end of great managerial careers and it was just a step too far.

I was talking to Pat Bennett a few weeks ago at an event and Pat was the Carlow manager, is the Carlow manager now and great friends, has been Davey's accomplice and was with him in Antrim last year and obviously was in Wexford and Waterford.