Christy O’Connor: Cuala learning to cope with the pressure, Errigal's taxing campaign continues

In their ten championship matches, Errigal Ciarán have won eight by just one score. In the history of the club championship, has any side ever reached an All-Ireland football final after such a long, arduous, taxing and draining campaign?

Joe Oguz of Errigal Ciarán shoots to score his side's second goal during the All-Ireland Club SFC semi-final against Dr Crokes. Picture: Piaras Ó Mídheach/Sportsfile

Cuala get the job done – again 

The jeering started early. Twenty-one minutes into the first half of the Coolera/Strandhill-Cuala game on Saturday, the Cuala hordes were already on the backs of the Coolera-Strandhill players. Why? Because their style of play wasn’t adding to the spectacle? When was a spectacle ever important to a team trying to reach a first All-Ireland final? The noise made even less sense when everything was going exactly to plan for Cuala.