This writer has a colleague from Kerry (also works here) who regularly attends his county's matches.
As July gave way to August this year, he marked the passing of time by pronouncing that it must be time to 'start building up the Dubs'.
An aged old pastime, and one that probably saw it's heyday in the 1970s, the Kerry tactic of 'building up the Dubs' has been revived in modern times.
Participation in this age old pastime is not just confined to the players and management team, but is partaken in by the entire county - pundits, ex-players and supporters.
Golden era legend Ger Power truly went beyond the call of duty in the service of 'building up the Dubs' on Off the Ball yesterday. In defiance of the bookies, who have installed the Dubs as very slight 10/11 favourites, Power asserts that Dublin are, in fact, 'roaring favourites'.
I think Dublin are roaring favourites
I'm dead serious. I saw them on the TV last week and they beat Mayo and in the last 15 minutes they were absolutely superb.
If you look at the time they beat Kerry, the same thing happened the last 15 minutes. But we like to think that Kerry has a small chance and have a few players that if they play on the day, we might scrape home and win.
Eamonn Fitmaurice may have misgivings about Power's intervention. If anything, Ger has been too unsubtle in his prognostications. The phrase 'roaring favourites' has perhaps rendered the whole thing too transparent.
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