Stop measuring success in trophies

As a small speck of land in the ocean, here in Ireland we’re never going to set our own trends, nor can we escape those that form and take hold elsewhere.

Even something as unique and isolated as Gaelic games can’t get away from the values that once belonged to other sports and this week was another reminder of what this generation is imposing on football.

Sadly, Kieran McGeeney and his Kildare team are the perfect example of how fans have forgotten how to measure success and failure and how you can now only win when there’s silverware to show off. In effect, that attitude means that most sides are deemed to have fallen short when that’s not the case.