FORMER DUBLIN STAR Conal Keaney was highly critical of the Dublin set-up after they suffered a 12 point defeat to Kilkenny in the Leinster SHC last night.
Keaney, who announced his retirement from inter-county hurling in April, vented his frustrations on Twitter following the game.
Dublin trailed by a single point at the break, but Brian Cody’s men blew them away after half-time, winning the second half by 1-13 to 0-5.
Kilkenny pressed up on Conor Dooley’s puck-outs, denying him the option of going short. In the third quarter, Ger Cunningham’s side struggled to get the ball beyond midfield.
Among the absentees against the Cats were talented trio Peter Kelly, Joey Boland and Danny Sutcliffe, who were not involved for various reasons.
Ger Cunningham will attempt to pick up the troops for the qualifiers, but a difficult road lies ahead for Dublin.
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Something not right with them this year. There’s almost too many players. No idea.
@Peter Brophy: I think the problem is that Leo is rotating his players too much. He needs a consistent core group of players so that when the internationals come back into the side, it won’t be such a jump. Having said that, it’s worrying that Leinster haven’t had a single good performance this season and they’re only a game away from their first Championship Cup fixture.
A lot of credit must go to how Edinburgh approached the match and made things difficult for Leinster. Reduced to some aimless kicking or loose running, it was up to Leinster to think their way out of it. No trophies won in September so move on to the next one and take the 4 points and them taking nothing.
This team will get much better. They just need to reintegrate all the big names. It was like their first day at school last night…. no need to panic
From a munster and Ireland fan sexton is shitte hot …munster Leinster this year
He brushed over the lineout issue.
A couple of missed calls? How can there possible be a missed call? The pack huddle, make a call and then the prop tells this call to the hooker. Unless either the prop or the hooker doesn’t speak or understand English someone please tell me how they could get the call wrong.
“3 or 4 international class players in every position”
@Paul O’Connor: And yet they look like AIL players. And you can ask why. And the answe is they all think they are the dogs bollo&, but it is high time they earned their wages. They are overpaid, overhyped, muck