NAME: Scott Doran DATE OF BIRTH: 23/1/74 HEIGHT: 5'101/2" WEIGHT: 12 st CLUB: Kilmore COUNTY: Wexford HONOURS: Five county titles in underage grades INTER-COUNTY DEBUT: Sligo v Wexford in October PLACE OF EMPLOYMENT: Senator Windows TOUGHEST OPPONENT: Mick Deegan FAVOURITE GROUNDS: Croke Park, Wexford Park FAVOURITE POSITION: Wing forward SPORTING AMBITION: To become an All Star and win an All-Ireland DO YOU PLAY ANY OTHER SPORTS: Soccer and hurling BOYHOOD HEROES: Pat Spillane, Jack O'Shea BIGGEST INFLUENCE ON CAREER: Father, Joe Caulfield (teacher in Kilmore National School) DISLIKES ABOUT THE GAA: That it's not a professional game BEST GAME SEEN: Last year's All-Ireland football final PLAYERS WITH A PROMISING FUTURE: Peter O'Sullivan of 1992 Meath minor team HOPES FOR 1993: To beat Dublin in the first round of the championship TELL US ABOUT YOUR CLUB KILMORE: At the ages of fourteen and sixteen our club won the double in both hurling and football. They were county titles. We also won two district finals in recent years at Junior A level WE ARE TOLD YOU ARE QUITE A USEFUL DUAL PLAYER: Yes, but I'm not that keen on hurling. It's alight when you have been playing football all year, it's a nice change ANY PREFERENCES, HURLING OR FOOTBALL: Football OUR CONTACT IN THE SOUTH EAST TELLS US YOU SHOULD HAVE PLAYED MINOR HURLING FOR WEXFORD IN 1992. YET YOU WERE NOT INCLUDED ON LEINSTER FINAL DAY VERSUS KILKENNY: Yes I could have been but I was more interested in being with the football team YOU ARE ALSO QUITE A GOOD SOCCER PLAYER AND HAD TRIALS WITH QPR: Yes, I was on trials with QPR at the age of fourteen. I was there for three months. I was asked back the following year but when I went back, the youth development manager got sacked, they lost my files YOU MADE YOUR SENIOR COMPETITIVE DEBUT WITH THE WEXFORD FOOTBALLERS IN THE RECENT NATIONAL FOOTBALL LEAGUE GAME AGAINST DUBLIN AND SCORED A GOAL. HAPPY WITH YOUR PERFORMANCE: Yes, I was reasonably happy, but I was disappointed missing the two frees THE OLDER, MORE EXPERIENCED PLAYERS - DID THEY GIVE YOU MUCH ENCOURAGEMENT: Yes, before every game they give me a lot of encouragement and advice ANY NERVES IN THE BUILD UP: Yes, I was very nervous, but when the ball was thrown in, they went YOU PLAY JUNIOR CLUB FOOTBALL. THE DIFFERENCE IN THE STANDARD MUST HAVE BEEN VERY HIGH: Yes, junior football is a lot slower YOUR IMPRESSION OF THE DUBS: A very hard and physical team WHO ARE THE MEN IN CHARGE OF THE WEXFORD SENIOR FOOTBALL SQUAD: Liam Fardy, John Wright, Ger Howlin and Larry Cahill THE WEXFORD MINOR FOOTBALLERS HAD AN EXCELLENT TEAM IN 1992: The team was mainly down to the enthusiasm of Jim McGovern and experience WHERE DID YOU USUALLY LINE OUT: Full forward, but in the replay with Meath they switched me to the corner. I was unhappy with that position therefore I went out with the wrong attitude before the game THE SQUAD MUST HAVE BEEN DEVASTATED BY THAT EXTRA TIME REPLAY DEFEAT BY MEATH IN THE LEINSTER SEMI-FINAL: Yes, we were very disappointed SHREWD JUDGES RECKON THAT WEXFORD COULD HAVE A BIGGER FUTURE AS A FOOTBALL RATHER THAN A HURLING COUNTY: Yes, I think that football will take over from hurling in the future THE ENTIRE WEXFORD SQUAD MUST BE LOOKING FORWARD TO THE CHAMPIONSHIP AND THAT BIG HOME CLASH WITH DUBLIN: Yes, but we would have preferred to have beaten the Dub's last Sunday week, just to have them a bit more worried Taken from Hogan Stand magazine 26th February 1993 Vol 3 No 8 Tweet

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