Armagh have had plenty of reasons to celebrate over the past few weeks, but showing a bit of emotion and passion is nothing new to this group of players.
The GAA world has adopted this 'high performance' culture that discourages sentiment and emotional outbursts - staying cool, calm and present is the modern mantra for Gaelic footballers.
However, Kieran McGeeney's men are a bit of a throw-back in the sense that they like to feed off the crowd, give them some energy with a fist bump, or a wave to the stands, and then receive some energy back from them.
Whenever a player in orange kicks the ball over the bar, almost instinctively they throw a hand up to the fans, or punch the air like it short changed them.
One of Armagh's most seasoned players is Rory Grugan, and he explained that although it is something that was never consciously decided on, they do believe in the benefits of it.
It definitely isn’t something that is planned, and I know in the high performance (space) you’re taught around being emotionless, being clinical, next ball - and there is a certain element to that within every game and every team, but sometimes you have to ride on that emotion.
“Someone who would be big on that is Kieran Donaghy in terms of - Gaelic football now is about momentum, there’s a lot of slow attacks, a lot of plays where it is point for point, those moments where you can get momentum, maybe you have squeezed a kick-out, you get two or three points in a row, you can feel the crowd coming, and that is definitely happened us in some of these big games recently.
“That is your moment to drive it on, and whether that is a fist pump to the crowd to drive them on, the Armagh ones are usually going anyway, but it definitely adds to that feel, and I saw Jack O’Connor’s comments about the goal, and how the crowd lifted, and how they (Kerry) struggled to react to that.
“That probably tells you something about the fact that, as players you have to live off that buzz, that emotion, it might help you get a score or two, and it could be the score that makes the difference so there is definitely something in that.”
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Of course when things don't go right, as they often haven't in recent years for the orchard county, this show of emotion can be used as a stick to beat them with.
It becomes something that critics can point too, and say that they were premature with their celebrations or too emotionally involved, but Grugan was quick to dismiss this notion.
“It can be used like ‘aw why are you fist pumping when it didn’t work?’ But I wouldn’t really buy into that to be honest.
“When you are caught up in something that means so much to you, doing something like that, celebrating a score or trying to drive each other and the fans on, it is definitely no bad thing.”
If ever there is a time to celebrate a score, then surely it is during an All-Ireland final, so expect plenty of fist pumps, salutes and wagging index fingers this Sunday.
