Every game matters to us: Paddy Andrews

Paddy Andrews says the Dublin football camp did not burden themselves with any talk of back-to-back All-Irelands this year and they’ll take the same one hurdle at a time approach in 2017.

“Genuinely, and even this year, I don’t think we spoke about two-in-a-row once or back-to-back titles,” says Paddy.

“We set out at the start of the year wanting to win the All-Ireland.

“We wanted to win it because we wanted to win it, there was nothing said about creating history or winning back-to-back.

“We wanted to be the best team and I already know for a fact that when we start next year it’s going to be about winning every competition we’re in, every match we’re in.

“If that ends up with three-in-a-row that’s great, but it’s not something that we’ll be promoting to ourselves when we speak inside.

“That’s the honest to God truth. It’s just about trying to win each game.”

The St Brigid’s man extolled the culture and attitude created in the camp by manager Jim Gavin and his management team and back-room staff.

“The attitude and culture that has been created by Jim (Gavin) and the management team and the players who have bought into it.

“Every single game matters. There is no game where it is ‘oh we’ll take this handy, it’s only a league game’.

“That mentality may have been there years ago with Dublin but absolutely not the case now.”