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Dear Rory,
Sorry. Sorry that we picked you the best. Sorry, you, Rory Beggan, the best goalkeeper in Gaelic, this apologize for your expertise. Sorry that it seemed in any way tainted. That was never the intention.
And thank you. Stephen Cluxton, undoubtedly Gaelic football's greatest goalkeeper, as you were accepting your All-Star last Friday night.
Thank you for your humor on your point of view on Sunday, asking for it.
This should be all about you. As Ciarán Whelan revealed, this vote "was not even close" in your favor. Eighteen Championship points. An accuracy of kick-out, which takes the distance so many of them traveled, brought the craft to a different level. A willingness to offer yourself up as an extra defender Bualadh bos.
You would have been excellent, Stephen would have been the recipient. As you said, the man is an inspiration to every goalkeeper and footballer in the country. As much as some might want to believe it, an All-Star or All-Stars will never be able to define his immense contribution to the game. But this year? This year you were superior, Rory. You were Jeff Buckley to his Leonard Cohen.
Hallelujah to you both.
But this is not all about you. Sadly, you have a selection committee.
As you always remember, in 2015, the first of Dublin's a row, you were shortlisted along with Brendan Kealy and Paul Durcan.
Stephen was not (even Whelan in his own All-Stars agreed Kealy and have been the best that year), yet it's a season that's been mentioned as an example of "the snub".
Rest badured, Rory, you are no compromised or next best alternative.
Stephen has been rebuffed, ignored or spurned by the selection committee.
Left out? Yes. Lost out? Yes. But never dismissed.
Those who are GPA officials and Dublin players who would have attended the meetings in a briefing / secretary brief would testify to that. That the All-Ireland-winning captain and goalkeeper of the last four years? It's just that others were better. It's just you were better.
You too have respect for Whelan as a pundit but there are times – only times, mind you – when the Dub precedes the badyst. Last Thursday morning was one of those occasions. His observation that the media might somehow have it in his trump playbook: plant a seed and watch the weed grow.
Whelan's strong reputation legitimizes this erroneous theory and does not care about the goalkeepers. But your mouth did not win this All-Star, Rory. Stephen's did not lose him or the others before. It's just that you were better.
Vendettas against amateur sports people are childish, Rory. Six years ago, Joe Canning provided quotations to journalists, which he said were more important than "very poor GAA journalism".
Writers might have felt aggrieved their integrity was questioned Canning has gotten picked up three of his all-stars, one of them in the year in question. How's that for a grudge?
Whelan's comments on how GAA journalism works these days where the vast majority of interviews with inter-county players, including your own team, are staged events. Pleading the fifth? It's no big deal.
Eleven years his junior, Rory, we might be in time Stephen over the seasons. And that's what we really do in the craw: we just do not think about it all the way back to the day. It's just you were better.
We do not speak for the entire committee but as a competitive business, where group is best avoided. We do not know who we are, but your work is much more important in press boxes.
Hell, even Pat Spillane, the same man who on Sunday said you over Cluxton was "the biggest blunder of all", claimed after your county's Ulster win over Tyrone, "Dublin fans will not like me saying this goal I rate Rory Beggan the best goalkeeper in the country ".
How his column is ghostwriter, who is a selection committee member, must smile when thinking back to that. To to…………………………….
Maybe it was because The Sunday Game Team of the Year to which they helped to make you feel better at your selection. Whelan and Tomás.
Whelan (the talk ((())))))))))))))))))))) Cluxton) every year ") and Spillane (" I think you should have my allround haul of all-stars by now ") want to place an asterisk beside your honor, Rory, but they can not. It's happened. It's history. And it's earned.
Stephen is a satisfied member whose rates are cumulatively his consistency is unparalleled. Nobody can deny that to David Clarke and you in these last few years. Nobody wants to, either.
But this one season, this one campaign, it's just you were better.
Kevin O'Donovan has his own vision
Although it was not without some influence from the likes of Croke Park, it was a brave new world that Cork embraced last Thursday with the appointment of Kevin O'Donovan as the new county secretary.
It's not that O'Donovan has not earned a say in the past, and Tracey Kennedy's appointments as vice-chairman and chairperson spoke of these times. call as could be made.
Only two years ago, the then coaching officer was circulating at 25-point blueprint for the future of Cork GAA.
Still, there was enough worth in what he preached for him to win the race for vice-president and in his public utterances there is evidence of serious intellect and immense pbadion for the county.
We're reminded of how in 2016 he hit back at Martin Fogarty as "patronizing" for saying Cork hurling was not in crisis.
He added to the time: "It reminds me of the Tom Hanks movie, Castaway. He spends the earlier part of the movie SOS signals from his desert island, waiting for the rescue boats to arrive. None come.
Then, after a period of utter despondency, he begins to build his own book which ultimately leads to his salvation. It does not look like the rescue boats are going to be hurled for Cork hurling any time soon. So, it 's high time we built our own raft.
Cork's senior Munster success since it would seem to contradict O'Donovan's fears but the lack of it. He would like to see you again in the future. But it's clear the new man has his own vision.
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