The new Antrim manager is bidding to turn hurling's underachievers into champions, but he knows history and geography are against him
And his final dream in hurling is to see the biggest underachievers in the sport grow into champions.
Now, with both history and geography against him, he is aiming to take Antrim to a historic Leinster title, or at the very least, on a charge to an All-Ireland quarter-final. “I can remember going with my dad and my uncle, watching them and thinking, we just weren't able to get there. I was in my head, ‘fucking why not? Why not?’ We were so close.
“You have to try and find little things that will help you to play on your terms. I just want to give teams a chance. And Fitzy wants to change it - but he knows he is handicapped by the twin handicaps of historic underachievement and geographic isolation.
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