Pat Ryan

I said at the start of the year that I don't see him winning above in Dublin.

When they go up there in the last round, maybe they'll prove me wrong.

In fairness, they're a hard team to write off when you get a chance.

The only positive about them is, and in all three games they've played, even though they've only won one win, even the other day, even when they're not going well and when they weren't going well, you could call it against Galway, they always do seem to create

at least three or four goal chances a game.

They had at least, you know, they got the goal early on the other day.

Yeah, they took him again, you know, and they had him against Galway as well.

They just didn't take him.

A good defender from Galway, a good defender, some of the goal chances they did take him against Wexford.

So, I suppose they have a lifeline as such that they can almost create, they can always create goal chances even when they're not playing well.

But it looks to me like it's almost going to be out of their hands now because if they beat Kildare, which I think they will at home, then if they do lose to Dublin away, are they finishing on five points?

Is that correct?

I think it is.

Yeah.

And I think Offaly will beat Wexford and I think Offaly will beat Kildare.

So I think, you know...

That's the way I see it going at the moment, unless they can bring a huge performance up to Parnell Park in the last round, and obviously, even going into Kildare this weekend, Kildare will be confident going down and putting in another big performance like they did, but it'll be a bit too much for Nolan Park.

You'd expect another reaction from Kilkenny this week, but whether, you know, hoping for these reactions and this up-and-down performance and this emotional state of, we lose one game, oh, we'll jump back up the next time, that's not a good place to be in, unless they were very, very close not to really get in the league.

Very, very, very, very, very close, so...

It's not looking good.