Counties pinning hopes on pundits careless words

For all the pundits and analysts and journos and podcasts and metrics and statistics we have now, there appears to be a fundamental gap in our understanding of Gaelic games’ most crucial dynamic.

Counties pinning hopes on pundits careless words

Maybe we are being deliberately kept in the dark.

Of course, we have known, for many, many years, and had it confirmed time and again in recent weeks, that the key factor in the winning and losing of any GAA match is not so much talent or effort or good fortune or even the blessed system. It is, rather, What They Said About Us Coming Up Here Today.

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