Jack Anderson: How will Kobe McDonald fit into the AFL?
Getting used to the training load, learning how to hold and kick the oval ball and the sheer physicality of the game and its tackling will be more than enough for him to get used to for now
Kobe McDonald will head for Australia with his family at the end of August. Pic: Stephen McCarthy/Sportsfile
For some, sport is romance; glory is the game. For others, it’s more prosaic; it’s the winning and nothing more that counts. Or as Vince Lombardi put it: if it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why keep score?
The last score in Mayo’s rapturous win on Sunday is a test of whether you are a sporting romantic or realist. Instead of fisting the ball over the bar, should Tommy Conroy have passed it to Kobe McDonald to palm it into an empty net?
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