You will forgive me for my bias this week.
Our club, Saval, are basking in satisfaction that comes with having to wait 27 years for a Down Intermediate Football Championship.
The final was a special occasion (for both teams) and Rostrevor were formidable opponents with inches separating both teams.
Up and down the country, clubs will be either celebrating or drowning their sorrows.
Our challenge now as a club will be to strike while the iron is hot and build on the euphoria created by last weekend's win, particularly within the underage fraternity.
One of the big developments in the last number of years is the establishment of the competition for both the Intermediate and Junior club title winners now entering into a Provincial and All-Ireland competition.
Once in a lifetime opportunities for a community and parish.
I never felt that I could match some of my best days playing against any that could be imagined as a manager.
Not for the first time, I was wrong.
I get it now.
I understand now how managers become addicted to these sorts of emotions.
Of course, it is extra special, as there is no place like home.
Granemore and Crossmaglen face off in the Armagh Senior Championship final at the Athletic Grounds this weekend.
Shane O'Neill's from Camlough and St Paul's Lurgan are the curtain raiser in the intermediate final.
Crossmaglen are heavy favourites probably based on their history in the competition, specifically since their maiden All-Ireland series win in 1997.
For Granemore, this is their first Senior Championship final appearance.
For their manager Niall McAleenan, this is where the sentiment will end.
Armagh football is on the up and with the county team going well, the club championship tends to follow a similar trajectory.
Ballybay also won the senior Monaghan title last weekend, with Mark Doran and Jerome Johnston senior at the helm.
In addition to McAleenan, Down are exporting some of the best football brains outside their own county, into Granemore and Ballybay respectively.
What many of these clubs have in common though, is a strong underage programme on which to build future championship winning sides.
For example Ballybay, Junior Championship winners in 2000, Intermediate Champions in 2001, 2004 and 2008 and Senior Championship winners in 2012 and 2022.
Kilcoo, All-Ireland champions have a similar and more dominating record in Down.
And dare we mention the great Crossmaglen teams also.
Investment into a youth programme will never be money wasted for GAA clubs.
The challenges are there in today's world.
Many players will be enjoying a few days away from work with the so called 'Monday club' becoming something of an annual festival or holiday.
This has increasingly bled into Tuesdays and Wednesdays and unfortunately, in the GAA world, we tend to have an unhealthy relationship with moderation when the horse bolts.
Whether we want to address it or acknowledge it as a problem, drugs are also finding their way into the scene.
In all the hysteria and celebration, people can get carried away and what starts out as an innocent dabble or 'on this one occasion' becomes a more frequent step into more widespread use.
I am not preaching, I promise.
I enjoy a drink and do not believe in drink bans nor anything of the sort.
I would go back to the famous quote from Eugene McGee when managing Offaly in 1982, when asked by a reporter how seriously were the team taking the final on the Friday before the game, he responded 'Extremely seriously, they haven't had a drink since Wednesday evening'.
RTE Gaelic Games has gone through somewhat of a purge in these last few seasons, whether this was planned or not.
With Des Cahill deciding to close 15 seasons at the helm of one of the most iconic and popular programs in the country - The Sunday Game - it will be interesting to see how RTE evolve, now that many of the key influencers, certainly of my era, have either left, retired or moved into management.
The Gaelic Games narrative has always, to a large degree, been driven by The Sunday Game analysis.
Not everyone reads a paper, but certainly, far more enjoy watching live action and the highlights programme.
RTE have to be applauded as they may not have the budget of some of the bigger media companies in the world, yet historically have given us sound exposure for our national game.
The GAA is about identity.
It infects the very fabric of our soul – so wouldn't they.
As an ex-player, I have always respected expert opinion, no matter how outrageous.
Of course, you can take it personally, when you love something as much as we love our game any perceived criticism is profoundly personal.
However, I think you need to have perspective.
I think I read it somewhere recently on words articulated by Brian Cody.
It was something to the effect that 'what anyone else thinks of me, is none of my business'.
A good pundit can give and receive criticism and I think that is what messrs O'Rourke, Brolly and Spillane had in spades.
Like them or not, there is depth to their character – they are after all - human.
I think that Sky Sports have led the way in punditry when it comes to Premier League Soccer, with BT Sport close behind and even American broadcasters like CBS Sports coming on stream now.
RTE have been accused in recent years of having an obsession with statistics, to the point that it is overly-influencing the debate.
However as we see from Roy Keane's emergence as a key pundit on Sky, it remains the personality and the opinion that draws the best viewer ratings.
Statistics are used to highlight fundamentals, normally when you delve into the why, but Sport remains opinion-centred through all that debate.
The ideal dynamic in a studio is a conversation as emotionally charged as it is opinionated, as if they were sitting over a drink in a pub or front living room.
RTE won't admit it but RTE has lost this vibe and it all feels rather clinical and contrived.
RTE coverage now lacks the chemistry a studio should have and chemistry it once enjoyed unchallenged.
Times are a changing and loyalties to a particular station or media outlet are being tested daily.
RTE have a decision to make and make it quick.
Re-discover the chemistry or watch over some managed decline.
