Or is O’Neill actually serious when he talks about Kildare scuttling Jim Gavin’s ‘Titanic’, without any iceberg assistance, in Croke Park this Sunday? “We are going to win that match, we are going to perform,” he predicted, as quoted in yesterday’s match reports. Put it this way: if a manager doesn’t believe, what hope for the players he must convince? This column wasn’t in O’Connor Park for the Longford replay and you would glean very little from the truncated Sunday Game highlights. Even in Croke Park, with its open spaces and forward-friendly surface, Kildare’s attack won’t have that luxury against Dublin.

Source: Irish Independent June 04, 2019 07:07 UTC