The above headline might seem like stating the most obvious statement on the planet to anybody with even a morsel of business sense or acumen. But you would be shockingly surprised at the amount of supposedly intelling people who fail to abide by that simplest of guides. But then, as I have been telling people for years, the thing about common sense is, it’s not that common!
The following may not be a very popular opinion, but, the Brady’s Skoda Regional Football Championship has been one of the most positive initiatives introduced by Meath GAA in a number of years.
That positivity spanned county team mentors, players, clubs and supporters alike. Yet for some reason nobody has proferred up to press is why there was so little publicity about the contests for the Richie Barry Cup.
Now, I’m not saying there should have been pages or hours of previews and the like, but, in previous seasons county PRO Brian Kelly was worthy of the utmost commendation for the manner in which match programmes were published online and updates posted on the Co Board social media channels during matches.
Believe me, as somebody who sometimes can’t get to as many matches as is longed for, simple things like that, not to mention the ScoreBeo app and Clubber TV are of incalculable value and comfort.
Thus, the lack of the few factors referred to above for the whole of the group stages of this year’s RFC were a tremendous loss. Not just from the point of view of being able to follow the matches but write about them as well.
Mind you, one couldn’t but wonder had somebody else missed the same things as yours truly, because, lo and behold, for the two semi finals last week, the team sheets and ‘text commentary’ made a very welcome return indeed.
In their own subtle way, too, the two matches in question provided another endorsement of the viability and value of the Regional Football Championships as An Tuaisceart qualified for a second consecutive final appearance where they will encounter admirably consistent Moyfenragh.