Club rivals shining off the pitch too

IT’S a common fact city slickers and townies are envied and yet ridiculed breeds in the GAA.

Begrudged for their sizeable picks and state-of-the-art facilities, mocked because they lack the humility of smaller clubs and the Association somehow doesn’t mean as more to them as country folk, life isn’t as easy as it appears for the urban dwellers. A Munster club final between a Cork city outfit and a Killarney town side has not surprisingly garnered cat calls of “super club” domination.

But to lump Nemo Rangers and Dr Crokes into that category is far too convenient. To do that is to misunderstand them completely, in fact.