Dick Clerkin

We always sort of, and we fall into this lazy trope, and I have empathy for Pat and his peers over the years when they were trying to analyse teams and just throw out the same names because you're used to just talking about Enda Smith and Jermod Murtagh and the Dailies, the new boys.

Right.

These boys coming in, these hens, like, Jesus, where did they come from?

You know, there's those young hens, there's five of them in their extended family in the Glavies Club, a rural club in Ballinach in Roscommon.

Actually, my brother-in-law is married over there.

So a bit of an insight and he'd be keeping me posted on them.

And here they are just building a panel.

We're going to talk about Kerry's panel in a minute.

Like, look at Roscommon's panel.

Like, they have everything that they need.

They have boys on form and fit and just loving their football.

Like, look at Roscommon with their own three provincial titles.

There's a wind in their sails that there'll be a damn good team to stop it at this stage.

Yeah, and listen, there's an awful lot of parallels.

We'll talk about the Ulster final in a minute and like... We're not mentioning that today at all.

You know, but no, we're not going to cover that.

But like, for Scotland, like Monaghan and other counties that make the best out of what they have, you know, they don't go cribbing and crying, they don't sort of pay the poor mouth and blame...

you know look at the big cities and the populations they just get on with it they coach right they get the best out of the clubs that they have and they pull resources where they can they're not precious about you have to be from a senior club which does happen in some counties and you know that pat not too far from from yourself if you're a cork junior footballer you may give up any chance of probably playing a senior inter-county football where you go into counties like roscommon doesn't matter if you're good enough you get your opportunity

And you'd be pulled in.

And that's why they've been able to build that success that they have right across the board.