Inside the past week two more of the brightest young stars in the GAA have either left an AFL club, or rejected their overtures.
The hunt for those one or two ‘difference makers’, from Ireland and elsewhere, will still go on, though, even if the numbers are well down on pre-Covid times.
Mark O’Connor’s recent success at Geelong has shown that they’re still out there in the GAA, but the world has changed markedly since he signed up in late 2016.
