The first time Ailish Considine and Sinead Goldrick ever bumped into each was back in 2016 when Clare and Dublin used the same hotel for their post-All Ireland final functions.
They were feeling equally deflated, both having lost their respective games that day by a point, Considine’s Clare beaten in the intermediate final by Kildare, Goldrick’s Dublin losing to Cork for the third year running.
One of them is going to be left deflated all over again after the pair square up in Saturday’s AFLW Grand Final at the Adelaide Oval, Considine lining out for the Adelaide Crows, Goldrick for Melbourne.
While the experience will be a brand new one for the Dubliner, Melbourne having reached their first ever Grand Final, for Considine it will, remarkably, be her third final in four years.
She won her first back in 2019, in front of a crow …
- April 8, 2022
