Finish mid-table, find your players, blood them: The key to a successful league

When winter boredom and old age has made us decrepit, the end of January can’t come fast enough. 

For a lot of Irish people of a certain age and culture, the county team is all they have to fire debate and imagination. It’s a long while to September, and besides, few dreams survive that long.

The National Leagues are a riot of chance and opportunity. If you are Armagh in Division 3, you are thinking, we must progress up to Division 2 if the McGeeney project is to stay on track.