Tommy Griffin: Class of 2017 have brought new ‘energy’
Instead of the constant focus on David Clifford and the three remaining survivors from the 2016 class, due credit should be given to those enrolled for the 2017 season.
The Galway minor hurlers were generally written off at the outset of the championship, largely because they had only one player from the 2016 team still involved. The figure is higher for Kerry and while Griffin knows full well the importance of Clifford, Michael Potts, Diarmuid O’Connor, and Brian Friel having been involved in last year’s final, he’s not the least bit worried about the 11 others who’ll start their first All-Ireland this weekend. The latter group, he stresses, have brought a “freshness and energy” to the set-up.
