Roscommons's rise up the football rankings gained further impetus this spring as they comfortably consolidated their place in the top tier of the Allianz Football League.
Next weekend, they county takes on Kerry in the Division 1 semi-final at Croke Park and won't lack for support as they look to make it consecutive wins over the Kingdom.
Looking ahead to the summer and there's every chance that the Rossies will make a Connacht final.
That said, much talk in recent times has been about the state of the pitch in Dr Hyde Park.
Kiltoom and Pearse Park in Longford have already played host to games involving Roscommon n their return to the top flight. On Sunday, Páirc Seán Mac Diarmada in Carrick-on-Shannon was called on to stage the meeting with Dublin as once again the Roscommon town venue was deemed unplayable. Indeed, the poor condition of the Hyde was there for all to see on Easter Sunday for the game with Mayo - a splashfest of sorts covered live on TG4.
Speaking on Allianz League Sunday on RTÉ Television, Dessie Dolan called on Roscommon to sort out their home ground so that the progress made with the senior side can continue.
"The plan is to have an all-weather pitch for our games in the future"
On that front, Roscommon board chairman Seamus Sweeney said that work on a new surface is in the pipeline.
"We are planning to put down a new pitch in Hyde Park and we are working with the infrastructure committee in Croke Park on that," he revealed to RTÉ Sport.
"The plan is to have an all-weather pitch for our games in the future. That's the road we have to go down now."
On the decision to switch the Dublin game to Carrick-on-Shannon at a time when a lot of fans were on route to Roscommon, John Prenty of the Connacht Council added: "The ultimate decision fell to the Competitions Control Committee (CCC). I was on the pitch on Friday night and I was confident that the game would take place.
"We made an arrangement on Saturday to get an inter-county that was neutral to Roscommon to inspect the pitch. He did raise some doubts but didn’t say the pitch was unplayable.
"We made an arrangement with another referee on Sunday morning and a member of the CCC to have another look. A decision was made. I don’t think you can put any blame on the Roscommon county board."
"Nobody likes a changing a match and it discommodes people. At the end of the day we had no option to change it.
Some Dublin supporters were discommoded with train travel, but efforts were made to get them here by bus."
