Good Evening

Welcome to your Bank Holiday Monday at Richmond Park, still a relatively new holiday, but with a blissfully old-school kick-off time of 3PM. Thanks for picking up your second copy of the Saint in less than ten days.

Our last game against Rovers brought plenty of hope in advance, but the reality of the challenge of creating a consistent team of stability and quality was evident against a very settled team, despite the Saints showing plenty of energy and never giving up.

The challenge of bank holiday games for programme teams is that they need to go to press on the same day (Wednesday) as for a Friday game, so thanks to all for helping to turn around the issue as quickly as we have managed to do.

Sometimes, when you're getting issue after issue out, you forget the quality of the material that our contributors create for each edition. For example, although I lightheartedly berate him for occasionally late submissions, Ronan O'Flaherty's 'Oh My Word' column has evolved into an ever more thoughtful and nuanced commentary on the Saints and the game in general. Alongside the design of Joe O'Rourke, the contributions of Jimmy Edwards, Ian Templeman, Sean Creedon, Eoghan Gardiner, Sarah Tynan, Tom O' Mahony, Pat O'Callaghan and John Owens make each edition a truly unique product. Thanks to them all. Also, particular thanks must go to our Technical Director, Alan Mathews, who supplies excellent notes from the management side, we really appreciate his time and willing assistance.

Until the next issue!

Come on the Saints.

Ruairi Kavanagh Editor The Saint

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