It may have been a launch but yesterday was also a goodbye from Eugene McGee as Football Review Committee (FRC) chairman.

Last Saturday in Claremorris’s McWilliam Park Hotel, the Mayo management and backroom teams gathered to formulate their 2014 plan of attack.

It was Winston Churchill who once said “the best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter”.

Sometimes you have to wonder if there’s anything that can be agreed on in the GAA. Signing off on something is no guarantee it is binding.

As you can imagine, the decision to introduce the mandatory wearing of mouthguards at all levels of Gaelic football was met with mixed opinions among inter-county players.

So fare thee well Lance Franklin. We hardly knew ya.

Don’t believe what you’re being sold about the International Rules series.

Football is probably the last thing on people’s minds in Clare right now.

Carlow and Longford, all respect to them, would have been surprised as anybody else to be name-checked in an All-Ireland winning post-match press conference.

Dublin have been a different animal this year. Mayo may take exception to that.