Lee Cleere also gone travelling, a big loss. Ben Conroy also not available. I understand a few players have asked to have xmas off and may return in january. Im not sure who they are. I think Aaron Dunphy is back on board this year. We will be looking to the likes of james duggan, mossy keyes to provide an injection of enthusiasm into the team, hopefully they are on board?
Tipp in Thurles on Feb 4th will be one to shake off the cobwebs. Hopefully we can get back to being reasonably competitive in the league similar to how we were under E.B. We need to play with huge intensity, become difficult to play against and not ship goals. Possession in the modern game is crucial, we need to be able to retain our own puckouts for starters either short or long. Our forwards in recent years haven't been much of a threat, found it hard to win their own ball and were lacking in confidence. Maher needs to find a way of getting the best out of what hes got, that might be playing a different way than we have been, it wont be easy.
We have proven over the past few years that we can compete, its about doing it consistently. We were excellent in the heat of battle in nowlan park against waterford in the championship in 2021 and decent performances against tipp in the league and dublin in the championship last year would give a level of optimism but we also took some heavy beatings which we need to avoid.
