The other counties in the quarter-finals have shown an ability to bounce back from setbacks
Now there might be no greater skill in a team’s armoury than a capacity to ride the dips and swells of a summer of football. In fact, the relatively serene sailing conditions for the likes of Dublin and Derry up to this point could be looked on as a major disadvantage going into this weekend.
All year Galway resembled nothing more than the enthusiastic kayaker negotiating their way through a few bumps and spills, serenely keeping their head above water ... little knowing that the 200-foot fall lay just at the horizon line. They couldn’t extricate themselves from the rapids in Carrick-on-Shannon last Sunday week, and by the time they’d righted the ship, they were over the top of the waterfall.
We all sang their praises after their last-gasp heroics against Tyrone in the Ulster championship ... except their own supporters, arch-pessimists that they are, who told us they’d probably go out the next day and blow up. If you closed one eye, and looked at it in a certain light, you could say that Kildare have taken a step forward this year. Finally there was a creditable performance against the Dubs in the Leinster Championship. They qualified out of their All-Ireland group after a stirring win over Roscommon that showed a ton of character and resilience. But the season ended in calamitous defeat, rancour and bitterness.
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