Nearly men determined to break Croker jinx

THEY will start arriving down today, the tangerine army who have spent the last four years believing their team is the best in the country.

This is the fourth successive year they will journey to Dublin, and with each passing championship, the expectation grows wilder though we are still no closer to understanding why they haven’t taken that significant step from contenders to champions.

There isn’t a better all-round footballer in the country than Kieran McGeeney.