Daly’s Dubs ready for the long haul

It’s a five-match sprint, you’ve lost your opening two games — where would you least like to go in search of two points in the Allianz Hurling League?

That’s right, Nowlan Park in Kilkenny, lair of the All-Ireland champions who are already in pole position with two convincing wins from two. That’s the fate that awaits Anthony Daly’s Dublin tomorrow, however, the reigning league champions having already lost a close game to Cork last week and to Galway two weeks earlier in a bit of a blowout.

Daly reasoned: “Everyone has to play them [Kilkenny] at some stage and that’s the way it has panned out for us. We always knew we were going to meet them in the third round and there’s no point in whingeing about it now, saying ‘of all the places we have to go to try and get a win’ — that’s only codswallop. We could have picked up two points against Cork, definitely we could have had one, but that’s history now. We must look forward and hopefully pick up a few points this weekend. Maybe they’ll relax a bit with their two wins from two!”