Dick Clerkin

You need to know Roscommon and Connacht football, but they're all steadily building up a fairly decent CV and adding titles, be it Connacht Provincials, Club Championships and all the rest.

And they're racking them up thick and fast.

And that's the point we're making.

They're building out a panel

They have a confidence.

The thing is, this is where it'll play out potentially in the next couple of weeks.

There's an argument, more than Kerry last year, Pat, you learn a lot by losing.

You learn a lot, you take a bit of introspection, you sort of go and plug your gaps until they're exposed.

Or potentially an RMA, or even potentially Kerry.

The first game they lose could be an all-Ireland quarterfinal, and next thing they're out.

Whereas actually other teams could go through and lose a couple of games and still be there, which doesn't sit well with me.

This whole business, the provincial finals, we're trying to put them on a pedestal, we're trying to make them...

you know, worth playing for, but yet there is actually no advantage of winning it in that respect.

You know, you're not getting fast-tracked to a quarterfinal like you used to.

And there is a point to that, but if you're... So you either separate the competitions completely or you hitch them.

There is still a joining of the competitions in that respect.

So it...

There's inconsistencies there that I think need to be looked at.

We'll not maybe dwell too much on that.

Just one point before we go down that rabbit hole.