If it’s ‘razzmatazz and pageantry’ you want at Croke Park, ‘you’ll have to wait for Taylor Swift’, writes Gordon Manning
The draw for the group stage of the All-Ireland championship was, writes Gordon Manning, “a no frills, meat and potatoes” affair –. But it produced a conundrum or two for some of the contenders, not least Galway and Mayo – the simple fact is that whoever loses their Connacht final meeting on Sunday will enter “a more agreeable group”. What about Dublin and Kerry? They have been “dropped on top of a green slope with a gentle downhill route to the All-Ireland quarter-finals”.
Seán Moran is left wondering why the draw wasn’t “deferred until the provincial campaigns were over”, given that there has been. The upshot is that “the thread connecting the provincial football championships to the All-Ireland has now frayed to snapping point”., noting, somewhat ominously, that Dublin are “tipping away, doing their thing ... they look better than last year and their young lads aren’t young lads any more”.
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