They say it's the hope that kills you in the end. With about 18 mins left yesterday, we had that fleeting moment that is so rare in the life of a Wicklow supporter where you think " this looks like it might all just work out for us at last " seven points up and starting to push the foot on the accelerator and then that old familiar jolt of reality, bang , in a few plays and about 90 seconds Seven is down to Two and the next thing we are missing a penalty, and 5 mins after that it's gone from us.

Just like when we let Martin Lynch run the length of the pitch without a hand being put on him in the 90s or up in Armagh when we had a free deep in our own half and up by a point with time already up and all we had to do is retain possession yet, we coughed it up.

Who knows what it would of done for the psyche of that group, pulling away in a tight game , in Croke Park , in front of a big Wicklow crowd and winning out easy in the end (the stuff that the Dublins, Kerrys, Tyrones etc do a few times a year), which is what looked on in that fleeting moment of possibility with 18 mins left, We could of left at least some of that baggage of history behind us.

Hawkeye2 (Wicklow) - Posts: 162 - 23/06/2025 17:13:32    2620431

francie81 (Louth) - Posts: 247 - 23/06/2025 17:38:43    2620448