Larry O'Gorman

And then, of course, we've the likes of Rory O'Connor, Conor MacDonald.

young McCookey and we're after losing four or five players this year and we had lost Limo McGovern, Matthew O'Hanlon, D.O.

Keefe prior to that as well so we were down a lot of big names over the last two or three years and when you see the likes of as I said Lee Chin, Liam Ryan and these guys they're up in the 33-34 now so whether they'll stay on it depends if Keith steps down and maybe someone new Bryce Spark will come in and try and reunite

the whole system again but I don't know whether the quality of players that are coming through at the present moment are up to the intensity of especially what's happening to Munster anyway because that's Eton hurling up and in Leinster Kilkenny are not in a great position either Galway

are probably, they are above us at the moment.

Dublin are above us, Kilkenny and Galway, because I think Dublin could go on to win the Leinster final.

So, yeah, we're in the third or fourth place at the moment.

We played quite well in some of the games this year, but we ran out of steam.

We probably ran out of legs.

And I think we ran out of thoughts and ideas on how to win again.

We're back to the old ways of working, maybe in the early 90s.

where we don't believe in ourselves we don't believe we're good enough to win you know and as I said the youngsters that are coming through have no major victories under their belt in terms of minor or under 21 so this year we done okay we lost the Galway in the under 21 they got beaten by Clare in the All-Ireland final the minors lost out to Cork a couple of weeks ago by three points Cork now we're in a great position to go on to win the minor All-Ireland so we have some bright sparks coming through but

but will it be enough to get up to the levels to be back in number one position at Leinster?

I think there's a lot, a lot of work to be done to be quite honest.

Yeah, it's a great honour to be quite honest.

I was asked this a number of years ago to be the ambassador for us and I was probably delighted to do it.

It's a great thing to happen.

We talk about the volunteers in this world today.

The GAA volunteer himself is something special in every club, whether it's a big club or a small club within Leinster.

You know, it's the unsung hero, really, that goes out and does everything for the club and don't ask for anything in return.