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11 July 2004; Brendan Devenney, Donegal. Bank of Ireland Ulster Senior Football Championship Final, Armagh v Donegal, Croke Park, Dublin. Picture credit; Matt Browne / SPORTSFILE[/caption]
"Even in my mind then though, I thought I could burn this boy very easy and I said to the other guy who was back from America and was an experienced player, I said: 'Go you in the corner and I'll go into full-forward."I remember actually doing that and it was my first county final. I did burn him as well, but that was a cheeky one, I enjoyed that." It takes a whole new level of confidence to make bold choices like that, especially at such a young age. Colm Parkinson also regaled a tale about when he made an independent choice, but it maybe wasn't quite as successful. [caption id="attachment_215847" align="alignnone" width="1931"]
Picture credit; Damien Eagers / SPORTSFILE[/caption]
"I remember I was in America one year and it was my first game. It was about 30 degrees hot, I was playing at wing back.
"The other wing back asks me 'what side do you want to go?', so I scanned the two wing forwards and one was Lee O'Brien who played senior for Wexford at the time, and the other was this old lad.
"I said: 'Go over there', because he didn't know who Lee was and I went over to the old lad. Jesus, he had three points kicked off me in the first five minutes, it was fricking Gary Mason, who won an All-Ireland with Down."I was absolutely livid, what a stupid decision."
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