Cats blame training ban

KILKENNY football boss Dick Mullins has blamed the winter collective training ban for contributing to his side’s failure to register a score in Sunday’s 28-point Allianz Division 4 mauling by Leitrim.

The Erin’s Own man defended his players in the wake of the embarrassing defeat in Ballyragget where they failed to score. However, he attested to the debilitating factor of the close season rule on his struggling team, which before meeting up last month had trained together eight months previous.

“With so little preparation done and coming from a low skill base, we were always going to find it difficult,” said Mullins.