It’s a Balls of a Competition. . .
Talking Balls
Leitrim manager Dessie Dolan has summed up the views of a goodly number of GAA people including Micko and a few of the Antrim footballers by dismissing the Tommy Murphy Cup:
“I’ve no interest in the Tommy Murphy Cup; it’s a balls of a competition. This thing about not having qualifiers is the greatest disaster and the GAA should be hung drawn and quartered for it and Nickey Brennan should be hung from his a*** up (for failing to rectify the system). County footballers want to be playing championship football. They aren’t one bit interested in the Tommy Murphy Cup and people know that if weaker counties have a second championship game it’s a big deal. Since the qualifiers came in, a few weaker counties got runs to the All-Ireland quarter-finals and that would be huge. Even some of the top teams who were beaten early on like Tyrone came back through the back door and won an All-Ireland. Anyone who says the qualifier system hasn’t worked is a fool.”
Meanwhile his county board immediately rushed to disassociate themselves from the comments saying “In relation to the remarks made about an Uachtarán Cumann Lúthchleas Gael, Nicky Brennan, Leitrim GAA feel that the remarks are very disrespectful of the president and in no way want to be associated with them. ”Any other remarks made are solely of a personal nature by Des Dolan and in no way reflect the thinking of Leitrim GAA.”