"If you are not enjoying it, if you are not getting any game-time, you are safer going back to your club where you can get a bit of football and start enjoying the game." You just have to take a step back and see where you can get the best out of yourself. "Sometimes, the way football goes, you can't dwell on it too much. I want to be playing and if you are not getting football you are obviously not happy," he explained. "Well, at the end of the day, it is football.
Having joined the panel as a teenager in 2010, Devlin was not prepared to sit and bide his time any longer. But in three months of football, I played only 35 minutes, all in." "I spoke to Eamonn a few times and he said that I just needed to take my chance when I got it. But I don't know, maybe they are seeing things I am not seeing, or what I am feeling," he said. "I felt I needed to be back into county training to win a position for the National League. The 26-year-old Kilcoo man was only used as a late substitute in the league games against Galway, Derry and Meath.Īfter Kilcoo's defeat to Slaughtneil in the Ulster club final last November, Devlin took a fortnight off before returning to county training. Meanwhile, Kilcoo brothers Jerome (quad) and Ryan (hamstring) Johnston have suffered injuries and will have a lot to do in order to prove their fitness ahead of the clash with Armagh in Newry on June 4.ĭevlin, a mainstay of the team under James McCartan and Jim McCorry, has left Eamonn Burns' squad, citing his frustration with a lack of game time. It has emerged that Caolan Mooney is awaiting test results on an MRI scan, fearing that he may have ruptured his Patellar Tendon which takes a minimum of three months' recovery before resuming exercise. Down's Ulster Championship hopes are significantly damaged by a raft of recent injuries, and Paul Devlin departing the panel, claiming he felt like, "an outcast".
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