Conor McKeon

It's heavy, heavy stuff, isn't it?

Yeah.

And like not to sort of move off that very quickly, but you just can only imagine the

what the summer's World Cup, the men's World Cup is going to be like in America, you know, whether Iran compete in it or not.

Like it's already the most heavily politicised sporting event I can ever remember.

And we're still a good three months away from it starting.

So this doesn't bode well.

And there was like, there was, I think there was some sort of bogus sickness that ran through the Kilkenny camp.

And I think Derek Lane only just about mentioned this, but usually when you hear about these things, they tend to be more severe than you know.

I didn't know about that.

And that might be the reason why...

They look very, very flat and they allow the kind of scoreline to get away from them.

But it hasn't been the greatest league so far for Kilkenny.

And in and of itself, I don't think that that's anything particularly profound.

But it's just that they have not produced players to come in and take the place of the people who have retired and fallen away.

There's every chance that TJ Reid is going to start the championship this year at 38th.

They're waiting for Adrian Mullen to come back.

He's missed a lot with injury.

A lot of the attack revolves around Owen Cody.

Like Hugh Lawler, who had become the best fullback in the game, has gone travelling for the year.