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Just when people were beginning to believe that Corofin’s position at the head of the Galway football table was under threat they ruthlessly dismiss such a notion by capturing the double in sunny Salthill yesterday. This wasn’t pretty but that didn’t bother the victors. “I don’t think the quality was great but we kept plodding along. Everyone says we’re not a hard team but we proved today we can play it anyway”, was Gary Sice’s initial reaction.

We all remember different defeats with more emotion than others. Some leave a very raw scar that takes a long time to heal. It may be from a game that annoyed you intensely, or 60 minutes you would love to have re-lived again.

We all remember different defeats with more emotion than others. Some leave a very raw scar that takes a long time to heal. It may be from a game that annoyed you intensely, or 60 minutes you would love to have re-lived again.

We all remember different defeats with more emotion than others. Some leave a very raw scar that takes a long time to heal.

Picking most teams at any level is a difficult exercise, unless of course you have absolute stand-out players like Ja Fallon, Padraic Joyce, Sean Og De Paor, Tomas Mannion, Michael Donnellan, Derek Savage and company, in their prime.Then it is just a matter of handing out the jerseys and letting the talented guys show the world how they have been blessed by God and mother-nature.

Thankfully I know I am not alone in this one; just ask any second level teacher who teaches lads.

Thankfully I know I am not alone in this one; just ask any second level teacher who teaches lads.

This is most definitely the tie of the round.

Galway’s Padraic Joyce, former All-Star Michael Donnellan, and a host of national football greats such as Kerry’s Seamus Moynihan, Armagh’s All-Ireland winning captain and current Kildare manager Kieran McGeeney, Kildare’s Glen Ryan, Anthony Rainbow, John Divilly David Heaney, Derek Savage, Conor Mortimer, Paul Clancy, Richie Fahey, and Maurice Sheridan will all be in action this Saturday at Tuam Stadium at 3pm when they take on the current Galway football panel in a charity game.