‘When something is going well, there is a begrudgery against it’ - departing Carlow coach Poacher

In a world where we have become conditioned to the top teams reaming off their dry, cold, clichés of obeying the ‘process’, departing Carlow football coach Steven Poacher was a brilliant contradiction, a Jackson Pollock splat of colour across the last three seasons.

Along with manager Turlough O’Brien, they talked themselves up and urged others to believe in Carlow. In the little guy. They went all out on Twitter and in interviews, engaging with the world around them, stamping a #CarlowRising on everything as they went, like a pair of Gaelic football Banksys.