Conor McKeon

So has Billy Ryan.

So it's just that Kilkenny at a time when they haven't got hurlers, quality hurlers falling out of the threes like they used to.

their performances this year haven't sort of suggested that they're making any ground on and like if you were doing a and I scorn those rankings that people do at various different times of year but if you did it for hurling now the top four would be the Munster teams like they absolutely would and Kilkenny are the one Leinster championship team who have kind of fought the good fight against Munster hurling over the last eight years but it's it's harder to see it happening now than it has for a while

Galway have their new superstar though.

That's the other thing.

Aaron Nyland, younger brother of Evan Nyland.

from Clarenbridge.

A couple of years ago, looked like he was going to, going to make the step up very young.

And then he got a bad injury.

I think he missed last year anyway with the goal in their 20s.

But he is stunningly good.

And, you know, he's a forward that can take the, take a bit of the scoring impact off Conor Whelan and, and Cahill Mannion.

So they've already found their kind of superstar for the year.

at Sawgrass I remember going as this golf shut down I remember I think it was the 2nd of March going to see Dublin and Tyrone in a league game on a Saturday night in Oma and there was a big mill at half time and the match should have been cancelled because the pitch was in bits and the weather was terrible I remember driving home from that thinking that was just not a nice enjoyable day's work and the following weekend was all this sort of talk and then the GA pulled their fixtures and I remember sitting upstairs here being oh the matches are off brilliant little did we know yeah

Six years.

I think it was a bit of a rupture.

I think there's a lot of sort of habits that have changed and I think maybe even lost contact with people and stuff like that around that time.

I think things have probably changed a fair bit and in ways that we don't even kind of immediately recognise because I think a lot of the players, if you want to call them, or a lot of the agents around that time that were shutting everything down, they're gone now.

They don't exist.

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