Frank Roach

You could see for the first few minutes he was struggling to adjust to this is a different ball game now because it was almost his thought process.

There was one chance where he found a pocket of space on his left foot, easy tap over point, and he thought, was there a goal on?

And he played a pass too many and the chance went.

And this was in that key period where Westmead started to wobble and gave Dublin a kind of hint or a sense that maybe we can...

pull off one of these famous late grandstand runs that Dublin often did in their pomp.

But what struck me, and I was only actually writing about there this morning for tomorrow, that this Dublin's demise has been happening in stages.

And each of their big, nearly every one of their big championship losses have followed a similar pattern.

Mayo in 2021, not so much Kerry the following year, but Galway in 24, Tyrone last year, and now Westmead.

Dublin are in position potentially to win.

Everything is going fine until nothing is going fine.

And a team senses vulnerability and go after them.

And like Mayo blitzed them later on that day.

Galway did it in the second half.

Tyrone did it in the last five minutes last summer.

And Westmead did it twice, twice over in that 15 minute period in the second half.

And again, in extra time.

And just one other thought struck me.

You're talking about Hedlund's two-pointer, which was an absolute magnificent kick.

That was off his weaker left foot, allegedly weaker left foot.

Senna Baker came off the bench to kick two points.