When Joe Brolly gives you this look, you know he’s being serious.
The draw for the 2017 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship was made on RTÉ on Thursday night but, naturally, it brought with it an aggressive critique of Mayo.
That’s what happens now when you talk about football, you wonder if Mayo will ever do it. And that’s what happens when you bring Joe Brolly, somebody is going to be left upset.
So the Derry pundit turned his attention to Stephen Rochford and questioned why Aidan O’Shea wasn’t brought off in the All-Ireland final.
“Whenever you see photographs – I just couldn’t believe it – of Stephen Rochford at the All-Ireland semi-final with two of the O’Sheas, you say to yourself ‘imagine Jim Gavin going with two of his players, with Bernard Brogan, or imagine Éamonn Fitzmaurice going,” Brolly said.
“They need to be ruthless. They need to be clear-sighted because their are about 12 or 13 players in that team who are at the level now.”
In fairness, in a 90-minute programme to do a draw for a championship that’s seven months out, there wasn’t much else to talk about.
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