Dubs management glad to avoid tricky qualifier route
However, as selector Dave Billings explained yesterday, the real sense of fulfilment came from actually winning — and avoiding the qualifier route.
Billings, who has spent a lifetime in the game, between St Vincent’s (he was a member of their last winning All-Ireland club team 32 years ago), UCD and various Dublin teams, revealed that their target from the beginning was to first get back to the final. That way they would avoid being implicated in two rounds of the qualifier competition.