Kingdom bid to show true quality after Tipp scare
Explained Kennedy: “Any complacency we might have had was well and truly knocked out of us by Tipperary last Sunday. It was all going according to plan for us when we went five points clear. It is hard to figure out where it all went wrong. Maybe because we had beaten them comprehensively in a challenge earlier in the season and were well on top in the final, players may have taken their foot off the pedal. Whatever the reason, it certainly dispelled any notion we are better than we are.”
Jamie O’Sullivan for Barry John Keane is the only difference to personnel to the side which drew in Cork, though the attack is rearranged.