Conor McKeon

because of whatever way and it was almost like he completely lost it but I thought maybe the ball had landed on the top of the net but I could hear from the immediate kind of the panicky sort of excited kind of noise that it was something different and we realised that the ball had gone into the net and like the thing about it is for as better than Dublin as Westmead were yesterday

Sometimes just for reason, particularly in big finals with pressure and expectations, sometimes you just you do need something to go in your favor.

Like, you know, if there was a million things that go into a result, Westmead had about 750,000 of them in their favor.

But sometimes you still need a little bit of luck when you're the underdog to go and get that done, because like as Frank said, that period early in the second half.

Cruising is a good word because I don't know that Dublin have a higher pace.

Like they have to kind of win by cruising and doing things really deliberately, but doing it to a very high level.

But when Westmead kept coming back on them, like there was a period during that run when Westmead, I think they didn't miss for seven or eight shots in a row.

Every single one of them.

And it felt like every score was coming from that little pocket of space.

on the left-hand side of the goal as they were, kind of between the 45 and the 21.

And the fact that they... And Senna Baker coming on had such a big impact on just that little bit of extra quality.

And like Matthew Whittaker, I wouldn't have been hugely aware of his sort of...

oeuvre until yesterday but like somebody who's going to just bomb up and down the wing all day long and then can take two pointers as well I think he's carrying an ankle injury yeah and Shane Allen as well got that two pointer to bring Westmead back into it in the first half when it looked like they could kind of go under so

The big moments in games give you that impetus.

For Westmead to not have won that game, Davey Bourne got that fisted point, and if Dublin had won the next kick-out, they would have won it.

And it would have been a very unsatisfactory conclusion to the game.

it's his first ever two pointer because they didn't exist the last time he was playing I think Matthew Whittaker said afterwards that he met Gary Connachton who was the keeper in 04 for a cup of tea during the week and they were talking about it and Gary said to him I'm absolutely sick of people talking about 2004

You know, it must be one of those things.

It's like, you know, it's Italian 90 now.

It has happened.