The Greatest Trick Jim Gavin Ever Pulled With the Dublin Footballers

Limerick finished top of their group in the All Ireland final. Limerick's starting 15 was came from 17 players over four and five years. There is definitely a chance that when you get to the end of the year, somebody somewhere in Limerick will say they just didn't freshen up the team enough. I always come back to the greatest trick Jim Gavin ever pulled with the Dublin footballers - his average age dropped even though everybody in the team got a year older. It's amazing. The big drop year by year by year over four years. And it was Colonel Callan, Niall Scully, Owen Merchant, it was whoever. He had the players exactly. Lard N