Conor McKeon

GA people of a particular age who kind of grew up pre the qualifiers in football and hurling that's why the Munster Championship means so much to people from Munster partly the rivalries are a thing as well but also because it was all you had like you didn't think about that other thing because you had to win the big thing

And that was almost like some sort of, you know, tropical landscape, the idea of an all-Ireland series.

He is because that's the way he's built.

Of course he's built like that.

Like Jim Gavin once said in 2013 in the press conference after winning the All-Ireland, look, the reality is we're already behind the likes of Mead and Kildare because they're back training.

So there are people who think like that.

And that's the way McGinney's competitive brain goes.

But somewhere in his kind of heart or soul or whatever it is when he thinks about football that way, there's an enormous attachment to the significance of winning an Ulster Championship, even if it's only...

Symbolism, you know, like obviously the job's not done.

They're now in a 16 team competition with 15 other teams.

But there is a huge symbolism towards it.

And like to follow that point on, I think if Armagh did win the All-Ireland this year and I give them a great chance, but if they did win the All-Ireland this year, I think for McGeaney somewhere inside them, it would outrank two years ago.

Because the Ulster championship is there.

They're going to put the game against Derry back in another week just to give them... I thought they were going to bring Jarlet down to say a few words as well.

Yeah.

He's very edgy, isn't he?

He's very, very edgy.

I'm on edge.

What's going to happen now when you get the Virgin gig if Joe's mopey dick one of the days or something like that?

No, we were in that strange kind of half space at that time where we didn't really know where we were any good again.