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29th November 2017
02:48pm GMT

“It’s a week out from our big day, so, we just do a run through so they get a feel of what it’s like and how long that takes and if there is something they need to do to occupy themselves or get themselves ready mentally. "There are no surprises and everything as much as possible next week is carefully planned."It's not something that most counties have admitted to doing but it certainly did Dublin no harm as the players were mentally prepared for what was ahead of them in Croke Park on that fateful day.
One All-Ireland winner in the form of Galway's Gearoid McInerney said that the Tribesmen did not follow suit to the Dublin footballers but there certainly was a discussion about it:
"We didn’t do anything like that," the 2017 All-Star admitted "I’d say the lads had their homework done for us not to even be thinking about it. They knew we’d be standing for the National Anthem for five minutes, so we need to do X, Y, Z before and after that. It’s not something we really did. “You know what you’re doing before the match. You’d have it all set out, what drills and everything you’d be doing and I suppose they’d have the parade pencilled into it, maybe you need to do a few shuttle runs before or after. We never did the practice parade, but I can see how beneficial it would be so you know what you’re doing on the day.”It's an interesting approach taken by Dublin and maybe, just maybe, other finalists will start copying their methods. You can watch the full documentary on the RTÉ Player here.
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