Tony Leen: Who in the GAA's high towers and low fields is exercised enough to stoke football's big conversation?

You will read next to nothing new here. To all intents and purposes, Gaelic football’s risk for reward has been flushed down the pooper

PRESSURE POINT: Kerry manager James Costello is energised as his players force a turnover against Tyrone in the All-Ireland MFC quarter-final against Tyrone in Portlaoise. 

ON any considered list of the poorest Gaelic football games of 2022, the shocking Cork-Louth All-Ireland SFC qualifier on June 4 deserves universal derision, but dishonourable mention should be made too of Kerry’s 0-8 to 1-4 All-Ireland MFC quarter-final slog against Tyrone in Portlaoise a fortnight ago.

Whatever of Louth’s miserly intent at Páirc Ui Chaoimh in the senior grade, the scariest part of the trench warfare in Portlaoise on June 11 was the punch-in-the-nose realisation that this may be the awful, grim expression of football’s future.