Rhode went on to win the Offaly Senior Football Championship following a first round win over Edenderry.
A narrow win over Edenderry in the first round of this year's Offaly Senior Football Championship might be the reason Rhode are county champions according to one of their star forwards.
Ruairi McNamee believes emerging from a tight affair in O'Connor Park without dropping points set them up well for the campaign ahead.
Rhode would eventually go on to reclaim the title from Tullamore by a single point in the decider in September.
McNamee says he thinks in retrospect Edenderry could have changed both club's seasons in the dying moments:
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