Conor McKeon

If they came up against a Donegal, I absolutely would not have any confidence.

So unless you're going to... Like, I don't know...

enough about the Dublin club scene other than the very sort of top line of it but I don't know are there all these kind of really mobile athletes out there who you could bring in and work as a longer term project but it strikes me that with the players that have been retained and are still very prominent in the team that Dublin felt there was enough

sort of quality there to get them to compensate for maybe the lack of the sort of pace that we're seeing from other teams and maybe what the last few weeks and particularly yesterday have now brought on to roost is the fact that it's not a short term thing anymore it's going to need something far more like foundations up to get this team back to a level where they're going to be able to compete with the very top teams Okay let's talk Clonus next

This is your last chance to talk.

I watch everything Ciarán McGeaney does because I knock great sort of amusement out of it.

And admiration and everything else.

But when he says stuff like, well, the players wanted it more than me.

If the players wanted it, it's because McGeaney told them to want it.

Of all the squads in the country, they're the ones with the most hive mind.

So McGeaney is the guy in there who's saying, well, it's up to you guys what you want to achieve.

And it's up to you guys what effort you want to put into it.

But this is what's worth achieving and this is what you have to do to do.

So I thought that line kind of struck me as well.

But there's no way that players are turning around to Ciarán and going, come on Ciarán, let's shake a leg for the Ulster Championship here.

Yeah.

You know, the whole thing about...

So I just have it down that the Ulster Championship means so much to people like McGeaney because that is the, when he considers, you know, when people like McGeaney were young, that's all you had.

You know, you didn't get into the All-Ireland Series unless you won the Ulster Championship.

And I think that still resonates with people.