Conor McKeon

Yeah.

Yeah.

It was one of those days when there's two very big stories there, really.

And it was hard to figure out which one was the bigger.

Yeah.

Like there's no doubt that Kilkenny have have nosedived in the last few years.

And the fact that they were even in a position where a defeat.

was going to put them out was Cyrus like that summed it all up but Dublin still had to go and do the business and you know Dublin drew it awfully they had their problems putting Wexford away they conceded a lot of goals at the start of the championship and Dublin went in with a fair bit of expectation around them and traditionally this has not suited them they have found it hard to live up to that

And there's all sorts of historical and cultural reasons why Dublin teams will never beat a Kilkenny team easily.

And my sense of it yesterday was that Dublin would have to be five or six points better than Kilkenny to win by two.

And I think actually in the end of it, they were about 10 or 11 points better than Kilkenny to win by seven.

That's kind of how the game went.

Dublin had total faith in the way they were trying to hurl.

That's the big thing under Neil O'Callaghan's reign.

You can tell there's total confidence in their system, the way they move the ball, the way they defend.

And whereas Kilkenny were trying to play a game that didn't really suit them.

And like bar a couple of honourable mentions, they were miles off it.

Yeah, like Owen O'Donnell was out and then Liam Roche pulled up in the warm-up.

So they were missing two very important defenders.

And like John Bellew came in and scored two points in play.