Conor McKeown

And they lost a few.

Barney Rock did a corporate gig on Tuesday and he gave the most comprehensive Dublin injury update I've ever seen.

And that's Barney rather than Dean.

He went through all the injuries.

Own Merchants got a hamstring as well.

The Basquale come off injured as well.

So Dublin have injury problems going into this game when they can't afford it.

But yeah, Conn.

Conn didn't look particularly fit he wasn't a dominant force Paddy Small was Dublin's best player Cormac Costal looked very sharp when he came on there are lads capable of coming on and doing well there's still big teams with loads of All-Irelands between them like Scully's kind of a key part of it now Brian Howard is playing in midfield

Yeah, not to be overly tweeto, but like in stark contrast to the kind of exclusivity of a...

a Ryder Cup we were walking out and the gate was open and we just go on the pitch like you know people fluttered onto the pitch and the Dublin players in particular I'm sure the Wicklow players did as well but the Dublin players stood there for 20, 25, 30 minutes posing for pictures of people from both sides I got a picture of my son and my two nephews with Niall Scully I was just wondering as I left you know is that the last All-Ireland winner they're going to see for the next couple of years like because the way things are going but it was

That accessibility is worth so much.

It's intangible, but I thought Bernard Jackman wrote about it really well last week about the AIL semifinals and there's no TMOs in the AIL.

It's what the players hang around in the bar afterwards that you can go up and talk to them.

That kind of connectivity is lost in so much professional sport.

It was lovely.

And I know the more you go through the rounds and the bigger the grounds you're at, the more security there is.

To be able to walk onto the pitch at the end of a championship game, something quite nice.

It's a while since I've been able to do it.

Yeah, nice.