“Coppers at 2am on Sunday would be a fair amount of craic.”
Get chatting to Jack McCaffrey and you quickly realise you is game for a laugh; up for a bit of slagging.
Still only 22 but confident in his own skin to comfortably mingle with legends of the game such as Paul Galvin, Kieran McGeeney and John O’Leary. Confident enough as a player to step away from the sport that shaped him to help the charity GOAL in Ethiopia.
10 minutes in his company and you wonder if all the Dublin footballers are as down to earth; as human. McCaffrey grins broadly when the Dubs set-up is referred to as an army boot-camp. He tells SportsJOE:
“Coppers at 2am on Sunday would be a fair amount of craic.
“There’s no two ways about it, there are characters. The lads are gas craic and everybody’s good mates. They’re a great bunch of lads.”
McCaffrey feels Dublin are the team taking most of the “flak” for not wanting to talk to the media. He continues:
“Jim [Gavin] is great in that you can use him as an excuse when you don’t want to do anything. Realistically, when you go and talk to a journalist or come on a panel, all anyone wants is for you to say something stupid so they can plaster it everywhere.
“It’s not like it is a systemic thing, like it is a ban or anything. You can see, for example, Bernard Brogan out there, whether it is for his business or needing to be out in the public eye. That’s fine.
“But for the lads that [media] doesn’t suit their personalities, more power to them. They’d be great craic with us and I don’t care what you think about them, to be honest.”
Asked about Gavin’s often stoic media persona, McCaffrey remarks ‘I do want to play for Dublin next year’ before explaining that the media front is very much similar to Gavin away from the media glare.
“It’s not like when the cameras are off, the top comes off and he’s dancing around.”
If Dublin can get past this stubborn Mayo team on Saturday week, Gavin could surprise us yet with a wee jig, at Croker or Coppers.
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