David Clifford

And I suppose it happens now in the same way.

Like people, like you see the stuff, especially the club stuff with like David Clifford and Kobe and stuff like that.

Like people are mad to go and just see these stars.

But these two boys were at the start of a period where that started happening in a big, big way.

Right? So, even at the time, like, when you're going and you're getting 10th and everything and all these records, incredible...

great like any team but I never got the impression that anyone was like it'll just take one or two more things but I he had a great line ring an amazing line really when you think about it that and I'm paraphrasing it but he like his kind of thing was the best hurlers are yet to come which is an incredible kind of thing prescience from him like and again it kind of it hints at just his preoccupation with the game loving the game and loving what it can be and what it was and everything but I don't know if someone can come along who could surpass him just because he's occupied that space now for so long.

But at the same time, in football, I suppose, I don't know if I ever thought I'd see someone like David Clifford.

So you're kind of like, maybe, maybe someone comes along, but I don't know what they'd have to do because if Shefflin could do all he could do and nobody's really making that argument, you'd have to...

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It's got such an impact.

Have a look at David Clifford.

We're not all David Clifford, but we use the backdoor cut and we get a point nice and easy.

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Yeah, well, we'll keep an eye out for that on Friday when we're broadcasting as well.

I think what, like, listening to, to Tomás O Sé and hearing it from the Kerry point of view, and, you know, you're talking about smaller population bases, and he's saying like, "We put so much work and effort into these kids so that they can c- become Kerry footballers." And, you know, I think the line he said on the podcast was like, "As a Kerry footballer in Kerry, you walk tall.

You get a lot from being a Kerry footballer." You know, David Clifford, they, there was i- Australian eyes on David Clifford, and he decided not to go.

Like, am I really grateful for football that David Clifford decided not to go to the AFL? Absolutely.

Mm.

Like, that, that is a good thing.

And like, all right, so to, to, to bring us, to bring the conversation back around, like, I mean, are we in a position here where, like, the GAA is at the mercy of the AFL, and the only way that this s- this kind of eases off is if the AFL just get better at developing their own, if it becomes less attractive for them to be importing young lads from Ireland in their early 20s because they get the pipeline of American, oh, of Australian athletes is already so, so strong, like?

I d- I, I don't see the numbers getting so big that it really impacts the game here, bar maybe one or two kind of well-known names maybe heading over.

But is that not as much of a problem? Like, say if David Clifford had gone in the way that Kobe has gone, like, are, is losing two, three, four players of that caliber not ultimately as damaging to the GAA at senior intercounty level as, you know, losing 20 lads who are the tier below that?

of religious ecstasy almost you know there was that that sense of i get it now why people marched off into the amazon and took the kool-aid you know i i do understand how you get caught up in the emotion of it it's it's it was pretty phenomenal until you witness it personally i don't think you can fully understand um what what happened so i personally think it has changed me um a cynical person cynical historian has changed me and i think um that can only be true of of uh Even, and I know, there's a Kerry, a very good friend of mine, who's from Kerry, who is pretty annoyed at this point of all the stuff that's going around about Kobe.

And he keeps sending me stuff, David Clifford scored 16 points the weekend, why is no one talking about that? And it's, I think, just purely to annoy Kerry people, I think it's, I'm quite happy with what's going on.

But I think that actual phenomenon of Kobe goes down to cross the line and starts kicking around a football with his dad and suddenly kids are turning up is pretty phenomenal in a Mayo context, especially where we don't do adulation very well.

We don't tend to do it.