Conor McKeon

But I think the way that the season has changed in the All-Ireland Series where teams know early, like there's going to be an All-Ireland Series.

It's 16 teams just because you had to, you know, bait your way through Ulster as opposed to Dublin or Kerry cruising once upon a time in the good old days through their provinces.

You know, like everybody's still starting on the same beat.

And look, if you have great finals and you have teams that are ending long famines and that sort of stuff, you know, like in Crowe Park yesterday, Westmead owned the energy in the place.

There was no doubt about it.

They had a bigger crowd.

They greeted their scores differently.

There was a kind of an edge and an excitement.

And, you know...

It actually reminded me a little bit of watching, I watched Hearts and Celtic on Saturday morning and some of the build up from the kind of Hearts fans.

You know, that anticipation that people have is this, are we finally going to win the thing?

And when you have that, that's the purest drop of all.

That's the thing that you can't sort of contrive a format to create.

And when that does happen, you just have to enjoy it for what it is.

Just shy of 37,000.

Yeah, it was, you know, like you can tell, you know, the pitch of that cheer from a group of supporters that are kind of believing a thing and they're being coaxed into believing it by this team.

And, you know, you can't, you know, you can't kind of replicate that.

And it's an extraordinary thing because it was literally two years ago where we're sitting around saying, like, what can we do?

What can anybody do with the Leinster football championship?

It is over forever.