Leinster hurling final - DUBLIN V Kilkenny

[INDIANA]

He's overage Hound unfortunately. Some family- younger brother Bill is probably better than both Ross and Rory at that age. He's 18 now. Another to watch out for.

[tayto]

Ross is indeed overage this year. Rory will have to make the football v hurling decision sometime soon. Bill is a quality defender and a natural leader by all accounts, hope he makes a full recovery from the cruciate, should do at his age.

[tayto]

Tactically on the puck outs we were very poor in the first half with the management telling the players to step back whil the kilkenny keeper hit the ball short to them and they promptly put it over the bar. Very naive.

Yea, Anto Daly highlighted the poor tactics in his match report in the herald, you can't force the HB line to stay back and leave their men roam out the field unless your HFs are playing deep to cover the space or you leave the opposition room to pick off scores from distance, which kilkenny did again and again, as you'd expect kilkenny to do. Made some of the Dublin defenders look a lot worse then they actually are. Very naive from the sideline. We got roasted at the start and just couldnt ever catch up sadly, just like the seniors we leaked a bad goal just when we were fighting back, desperately disappointing for the lads.

On the plus side most of the best players will be underage again next year, apart from the lads now playing regularly for the seniors, I thought Peter Kelly played really well in the second half, took some great scores and worked back well. O'Carroll looks very strong and potentially dominating at CHB. Bring in lads like McMorrow, Kevin O'Loughlin, Bill O'Carroll and co and we'll have a decent team again next year.