It was one o’clock and they had a few hours rest before their semi-final which started at four o’clock, across town in Chapel Hall. All the players tucked into Dolores Darcy’s delicious sambos – but they didn’t think much of her home-made paté! Despite the morning’s festival of football combat, everyone seemed to get on really well together. All the other teams’ players praised Crokes and Terrystown on their advancement to the semis. This was the kind of thing that made Mick and all the other coaches so proud to be involved in GAA – here they were, all celebrating together and supporting each other. Todd’s dad was ambushed by some of Mick’s team for autographs, but luckily for Todd, Scott reluctantly went along with his son’s lies. Sarah was unhappy about him doing so, but Scott had already decided that if this situation arose, then he wouldn’t embarrass his son in front of his teammates. ‘I’ll be gone back to Australia in a couple of weeks,’ he had said, earlier that morning.
