Rory O'Connor

But like the Dublin are outsiders for Leinster semi-final against Loud.

Outsiders with the bookies.

That's a massive, like that's, I can't believe that sentence actually exists.

It is, but like I think like the Gerber anything is a disaster.

There's no getting away from that.

But the problems are more, you know, like a lot of things had to go right for Dublin football to be where it was when it was winning six All-Irelands in a row.

And I think a lot of things have had to go wrong for them to be where they are now.

And I think the natural level for Dublin football is somewhere in the middle.

But quite where that is now, I can't get a grasp on it.

Did Conn play a route?

but and the Kilkenny was absent and I think we'll be back and he'll make a big difference in terms of experience but yeah it's not not no one fears them yeah there's a mythical thing like if you could name a Dublin team now and if everybody was fit and informed they'd be a match for everybody yeah but the thing is the age profile and the whatever injury profile more to the point of that team

is the likelihood of that ever happening, that they're all on the pitch after doing a solid... Like, I can only assume with Con that he's not training between matches and then declaring fit for matches.

So, like, I'm not sure that that's ever going to happen again.

And the reason Dublin keep going back to these players is because at the other end...

It has dried up, you know, they haven't been successful underage, they haven't produced any outstanding players.

So the natural course of selection, like Dublin had two debutants last week, Paddy White, who's 29, Eoghan Kennedy is 27.

So like they were never, like they've been two of the outstanding club footballers in Dublin, but like they were never picked at inter-county level before.

So like it's great that it shows an open mind from management.

But at the same time, there was something very, like that cliche of the conveyor belt did feel true with Dublin.

You had this like older group of players, then the next wave of fellas who were becoming all-stars.