As a long suffering Kildare GAA fan reading Dean Rock’s preview analysis of the Kildare v Louth game in the Leinster Championship in Croke Park made difficult reading yesterday morning.
It upset the smooth passage of the porridge down my throat, to be honest.
Dean Rock fancies Louth to beat Kildare today.
Why? Because of two things, essentially.
One, Kildare are not playing like a team with a plan into which everyone has bought with confidence.
Louth, he suggests, has. As a consequence, Kildare are too dependent on the individual brilliance of one or two players.
But it is a team game. So, this is worrying, in my view.
Because a good team will nearly always beat a group of talented individuals.
Secondly, Kildare don’t score enough and do not appear to have an effective attacking plan. Their average return in 7 league games which they lost was 11 points, and that included one outlier, anomalous score line in the game against Cork.
For the above two reasons I am looking to the game in Croker with some trepidation, and a sense of despair.
But, hey, it’s the championship.
Come on the Lilies!