Flynn: We need to keep going in the right direction

Dublin footballer Paul Flynn knows his side will have to produce their best display of the summer to date if they are to capture a fourth Leinster title in-a-row this Sunday against Meath in Croke Park (2.0).

The Dubs have defeated Wexford and Laois to date but the Fingallians man stresses that the performance graph will have to spike this Sunday in GAA headquarters.

“Against Laois, there were a lot of positives I took out of the game myself. But there was also things I wanted to work on. There’s no doubt about it.

“So you just try and build on that every game you play. We would have felt we didn’t have our intensity. I think we had more of it against Wexford. Definitely not the finished article but going in the right direction."

The tradition of the Dublin-Meath rivalry means there is often little between the sides on Championship day so the mental side of the game is always of key importance.

“It’s obviously around being mentally strong,” says Flynn. “I think we have, within our team at the moment, this belief that no matter what stage of the game we’re at, no matter how far down we are, no matter who we’re playing against, that we are going to have the ability to come out on top if we continue to stick to our game-plan for the whole game."

“I think that’s a great strength to have. We don’t like losing. That’s really important. That mental strength is maybe the key and the difference between now and the past."

“It’s obviously a positive but you don’t want to be leaving yourself in those sort of situations too often."

“We have a game-plan, we stick to it. We say it’s a 70-minute game plus injury-time and you have to play until it’s over. It’s as easy as that."

“Obviously in the past, even before Pat’s (Gilroy) time, there were games where we would have folded in those sort of situations. But not any more. We just keep on working hard.”

The curtain-raiser on Sunday is the Electric Ireland Leinster MFC final (12.0) between Dublin and Kildare.