Underdogs Kilmallock relishing showdown with Thurles

OUTRAGED or pleased – how do you react to being installed as underdogs in a big game, despite the fact that you are a title winning team, and you have home advantage?

For Paudie O’Dwyer, whose Kilmallock team – Limerick champions – face Thurles Sarsfields in the Munster Club SHC semi-final in Kilmallock tomorrow, it’s a little of both.

“I presume it’s because of the huge tradition Thurles Sars have as a hurling club and with all their star players (that they are favourites) but we’re kind of happy we’re the underdogs. We hadn’t won a county since 1994, which is why people are probably writing us off. Also, this is still a young team, our average age is only about 23 – I’m the oldest on the team that started in the county final. And I’m only 27!”