The article contrasts the previous year of Gaelic football, characterized by unattractive play and controversy, with the current team's potential to redefine the sport positively. Orchard, renowned for their unconventional victories, has begun to embrace a more aesthetically pleasing style of play this season. This transition suggests that the team can balance effectiveness with beauty, signaling a shift in Gaelic football's narrative from last year's disappointments toward a more promising and visually appealing future.
Orchard showed last year they could win ugly - new orange order can shine with the game at its most beautiful.
The best team of Gaelic football's ugliest year are also looking like the best team in its most beautiful.
Football had reached such a low ebb last year that the eventual champions were bound to end up with an invisible asterisk beside their name.
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