Could the small ball flourish in the capital in the shadow of gaelic football?

• A high-profile Dublin thrower putting his support behind the footballers is the same old thing.
• Before Eoghan O’Donnell there was Mark Schutte, Tomás Brady and Conal Keaney.
• What’s more, endless other people who never made it to the extent that the senior intercounty heaving prior to focusing on the huge ball.

Con O’Callaghan, Ciarán Kilkenny and Cormac Costello all brought green banners up in last end of the week’s Leinster Football Championship.

A touch of destiny would have guaranteed the triplet were rather swaggering their stuff on the throwing fields this late spring.

It muddled O’Donnell’s choice to interface up with Dessie Farrell’s board will mean for his inclusion with the throwers going ahead. Be that as it may, the fascination is clear for the two players.

“I love playing for Whitehall at the end of the year, it’s such a release. I try my hand as a very makeshift forward for the club so it’s a completely different experience,” O’Donnell modestly stated when asked in February about his exploits on the football field.

“You’re not chasing someone around for 70 minutes. You can actually try to play some sort of exciting style.

“[But] hurling is just so competitive at the moment, and it’s such a fast game, that I don’t think there’s any sport in the world that’s like it at the moment.”

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While football was given a role as an honest hobby, at last the carrot of seeking the Sam Maguire Cup year-on-year could demonstrate perfect, in the event that the Whitehall Colmcille man is confronted with a decision the following winter.

“When some people talk about Dublin hurling, they write off the team because the likes of Ciarán Kilkenny and Con O’Callaghan have chosen football,” Dublin football legend and former selector with the county’s hurlers, Mickey Whelan wrote in his autobiography this year.

“‘But I still think there are more than enough hurlers in Dublin to win an All- Ireland title. The talent is undoubtedly there.

“We just need to get them in the right mould and get them to believe in themselves.”

In any case, how economical is a production network where a significant number of the best players are culled for another game?

Away from the region’s leader group, Dublin flinging has been consistent headway made as of late. Between club, schools and intercounty minor and U21/U20 groups, results keep on streaming.

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Yet, there is in many cases a feeling that the allure of football might prowl around the bend.

Con O’Callaghan was key as Cuala raged to consecutive All-Ireland titles in 2017 and 2018.

The Dubs arrived at the 2020 All-Ireland U20 Hurling Championship last. Ostensibly the champion player from that group kicked two focuses against Kildare last week from corner-back. It presently seems Lee Gannon’s future rests solidly with the footballers.

In any event, returning to the advanced accomplishment at schools level, when an amalgamated Dublin Colleges group guaranteed the All-Ireland title in 2006, two individuals from that side, Diarmuid Connolly and Jonny Cooper, proceeded to become pillars of the football crew for quite a long time to follow.

Given the club structures in the capital, the transport line will keep on creating gifted double players.

With the times of the intercounty double player now finished, many will be confronted with a decision.

Dublin are not creating some distance from gaelic football’s top table any time soon. What’s more, that bait will stay for those confronted with a choice.

According to a heaving point of view, they need to offer a reasonable choice to seek the province’s multi-gifted stars. Furthermore, that will possibly happen when the group returns to bringing home Leinster championships and going after the Liam MacCarthy Cup.

Until that point, there will be more examples of the top throwers being influenced by the quest for Sam before long.