Down have been lucky, and that’s not sustainable

Down look like a team who would love to play open and expansive football. Yet they know to do so would be folly.

Down have been lucky, and that’s not sustainable

They have safety in numbers; in their average individuals they are larger than the sum of their parts.

Down are the aristocrats of Ulster football, if they were not, they would now be extinct, but the fight they have shown is the fight of an ill animal who has zero chance of survival.

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