Giving Dublin players the licence to fly high

“My philosophy of sport has always been about the future, about the horizon.”

— Jim Gavin, Sport Ireland HPX High Performance Conference, October 7

When the Dublin players made sure that no Mayo man was available to David Clarke for a kickout in the dying moments of the All-Ireland final by wrestling them to the ground, having held up Clarke’s initial attempt to get going quickly by throwing away his tee, it may have been something that was practised.