Conor McKeon

And two years later, Dublin have been beaten twice.

It's extraordinary how quickly that has changed.

Larry Stanley.

We would have a situation where two pundits...

John Heslin and Liam Rush who started the season on the punditry ended up with Leinster medals it's a fair tournament just on Westmead though I'm a great believer like in the

Like capacity of any county.

Sorry, not the capacity, but the potential of any county.

You know, like Westmead were unlucky last year.

They lost a lot of games by very, very tight margins.

So, like, very kind of surface level, it looks like.

They got relegated to Division 3, didn't shake a leg in Leinster and got beaten in a Talton quarterfinal.

They weren't that far away.

But, like, I am a great believer that if you get the best guys in the county...

they're managing the right way they're inspired you get a small bit of momentum you can put it all together that there's no county that's really in the doldrums that doesn't at least have the raw materials if it all comes together to make a big leap and I think in the Leinster Championship at the moment with Dublin gone there's so much capacity to kind of go upwards you know like I don't know how SME are going to go in the All-Ireland Series

But that doesn't really matter.

And that's kind of the beauty of the Leinster Championship.

Yeah, the only thing is when you do it and then you say it in such a simple way, it sounds the simplest.

I'm sure a million teams have had that intention and gone after these things.

The only thing I'd say about Dublin's kickout yesterday was how slow it was.

And it was so slow that it could only have been like a strategic thing to...