1 week Ago
Louth's Tommy Durnin face Dublin in the Leinster final once again. Photo: Ben McShane/Sportsfile Can you really take positives from a match that ends in a 21-point landslide at your expense? Tommy Durnin insists Louth “enjoyed the experience” of last year’s Leinster senior football final, their first in 13 years. Now that they’ve got back there, the key is how much they’ve learned from the trauma of that 5-21 to 0-15 defeat.
Dublin, once more, are the Croke Park party-poopers on Sunday. Make that miracle-maulers. Only in Leinster football would you get a two-horse race where the final odds are 1/100 (you-know-who) and 22/1, even though the latter are now firmly established as a Division 2 side with aspirations of climbing even higher.
“A lot of lads probably have regrets from last year,” Durnin accepts. “And there are a lot of people probably saying that it’s only a matter of Dublin turning up. We’ll let the public decide what they want, but we want to be where we want to be.
Yes, we have to play a lot better and we learned a lot last year. But it all comes down to throw-in. We’ll really see where we’re at then.
“We analysed last year’s Leinster final the week after it – where things went right and where things went wrong. Dublin can kill you in ten minutes. I think they scored 1-5 in ten minutes.
“But as long as we learn and bring a different intensity and a different level to go at Dublin again ...
that’s exactly what we’re going to do.�.
