Identity.
Every team, every part of the island should have its own identity. Accents, scenery, culture, we all have different stories to tell and we should be proud to tell them. Nobody gains anything from subsuming another’s way of doing things.
Corofin own who they are.
Their style of play has inspired a whole country to believing that there’s other ways of doing things, that all-out-attack can be the most deadly form of football.
In what was billed as a clash of the titans in an All-Ireland club final that everyone wanted and deserved, the Galway champions ruthlessly and effortlessly swatted aside the second best team in the country with zero fuss, zero hiccups and zero chance of hindsight allowing you to believe that there could actually have been any other way.
It was easy for Corofin, everything looks easy for them as they slice through opposition players and mass defences as if they’re just stationery training cones.
In fact, there’s nothing you can see about the way Corofin play that would suggest that another team can come along and stop them in the next game. Your only hope is to go back to grassroots and develop a system and a style that can be honed over a decade to match it.
But they have the jump on you because they’re doing exactly that.
It’s way of life, not just a style of play for Corofin and, at half time in Croke Park, their under-12s showed that they are capable of doing exactly the same thing as they reproduced two stunning goals similar to that of the men’s team from their club.
Gary Sice and Jason Leonard finished off swashbuckling moves but they won’t be long in having the next young man ready to step in and do exactly the same thing.
Identity.
Croke Park, Sunday 17th March 2019. Underage team played at half time. @Jason_Leonard9 @gsice . Spot the similarity with the goals!! #corofinabú pic.twitter.com/Vv7YndwYuE
— Mark Fahy (@m4rkf4hy) March 21, 2019
