Maurice Brosnan: Galway's kickout issues, Heneghan's breakout, and Geaney's genius

Galway's primary problem, for more than a year now, has been kickouts. They cannot secure enough of their own and in Sunday's Connacht SFC final, that was compounded by a porous press.

In league and championship this year, Darragh Heneghan has scored 4-9. That 21-point return has come from an astonishing 14 shots. Pic: ©INPHO/James Lawlor

Roscommon captain Diarmuid Murtagh had both wrists strapped. The right was to cover a Whoop band, the left had a cryptic initialism and a simple instruction: WIN.

Yes, that is the obvious ambition of any footballer who took to the field last weekend. It is the sort of message that shouldn’t need reminding. As for the letters, it appeared to read “BGT”. The meaning of that particular code was not something the victorious stalwart was willing to share when he obliged in one final interview before an S&C coach peeled his GPS from the back of his jersey and he could carry the Nestor Cup into a raucous dressing room.