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Derry come into the 2025 Ulster Championship off the back of a winless league campaign. However, their talisman Conor Glass is in the form of his life, thriving within the game's new rules.

The 27-year-old scored more from the middle of the park over the past two months than in the previous five league campaigns combined, since making his debut in October 2020.

In 2021 he scored 0-05 from play in Division 3, he scored 0-03 between the 2022 and 2023 leagues, and then 1-07 from play en route to winning last year's Division 1 title (1-08 including placed balls).

This year, despite Derry's struggles, he scored 3-17 from play in seven games. Without applying the double scores from his two-pointers, that would still have amounted to 3-12. In the previous five leagues he scored a combined 1-15 from play.

From midfield, Glass was the second top scorer from play in Division 1 in 2025, behind only Dublin's Sean Bugler with 2-22, and across all four divisions only Westmeath's Luke Loughlin (1-24), Limerick's James Naughton (5-15) and Cork's Chris Og Jones (5-17) scored more than him.

Conor Glass has been very accurate in 2025

With manager Paddy Tally only being appointed in mid-November and then injuries to the likes of Conor McCluskey, Gareth McKinless and Brendan Rogers weakening their challenge, Derry's efforts in the 2025 league campaign amounted to just one point, via a draw with Galway in Celtic Park.

When it comes to two-pointers, however, Glass has surprisingly emerged as one of the biggest exploiters of the new rule introduced this year to reward long-range scores.

The rangy midfielder converted five double-pointers from play, and across all four divisions only Daire Ó Baoill of Donegal and Mark Russell of Tipperary (six