Surely not.
Now we have the Goliath match that we have been waiting for all year, Dublin and Mayo meet in the All-Ireland final for the second year running.
You’d assume that Jim Gavin has kept a keen eye on Mayo in their run through the qualifiers right up to the All-Ireland final but apparently not.
According to Gavin, he claims that he hasn’t watched Mayo play since the two sides faced back in March when Dublin ran out winners to 1-16 to 0-07.
However, on the latest episode of the GAA Hour show host Colm Parkinson wasn’t buying it whatsoever.
“Jim Gavin said he hasn’t seen Mayo play since Dublin played them in the league in March,” Parkinson said.
“Jim Gavin is a GAA man, whatever my criticism of him I definitely have no criticism of him as a manager. He’s ruthless, he’s a Brian Cody type manager like what he did to Bernard Brogan yesterday I think was completely out of order but how Dublin played is just a compliment to him and his management team, they were unbelievably good.
“For Jim Gavin as a GAA man first and foremost, which he is, to say that he hasn’t seen Mayo play Galway when he never might of thought they were playing them. He hasn’t seen them play Derry on the telly, he hasn’t seen them play Cork…he hasn’t seen them play Kerry both days.
“Now you could maybe understand why he didn’t watch Kerry Mayo the day before, they could have had a get together, a kick around or whatever, you don’t know what Dublin were doing with their schedule but I just cannot comprehend that an inter county manager wouldn’t be watching other inter county teams.”
Former Meath footballer and GAA Hour pundit Cian Ward took a more cautious approach:
“I don’t know what I believe with him anymore, he’s almost becoming a caricature of himself it’s funny,” Ward remarked.
“It’s a genuine thing, maybe he hasn’t watched them maybe he’s not bothered. There’s a lot of professional soccer players who by all accounts have no interest in watching soccer or have no interest in getting involved with anything to do with the game when they’re away, it’s just a job to them.
“Maybe Jim spends so much time dealing with Dublin, maybe he’s involved with his own club at underage level and he doesn’t have time for that at the weekend,” Ward concluded.
You can listen to the full show below.
