Consistency the name of the game for Dubs, says Rushe

CONSISTENCY, that’s got to be the name of the game for Dublin for the rest of this year says Liam Rushe, one of several star young players introduced by manager Anthony Daly last year.

It certainly wasn’t there in the early part of the league, when Dublin opened with a massive 13-point loss against Waterford, followed it up with a spectacular nine-point win over Tipperary, then the biggest disappointment of all, a seven-point bubble-buster against an Offaly team they expected to beat.

And therein lay Dublin’s problem – expectation led to complacency, they weren’t ready for what a fired-up Offaly threw at them, and thereafter they were in a battle for survival in the top division and only secured their status with a thumping of depleted Limerick in the final round.