Earley: Lilywhites playing their natural game

KILDARE midfielder Dermot Earley yesterday dismissed suggestions that manager Kieran McGeeney set out to impose an ‘Armagh style’ on the Lilywhites.

In Dublin to pick up his first Vodafone GAA Player of the Month award (for May) and, accompanied by his father Dermot – the Roscommon great and current Army Chief of Staff – he stressed the former Orchard county star was “playing to the strengths he sees in the Kildare panel”.

Said Earley: “When a manager comes in he looks at what he has, the strengths and weaknesses of the panel. The idea is to get the panel to play to their strengths and that’s exactly what he has been doing this year.