Malone puts Faith in new boss Coffey

Former Offaly star Roy Malone says the county team will force all teams back to the drawing board if they manage to beat Kildare in their Leinster SFC quarter-final.

Malone’s fellow Rhode man and interim manager Tom Coffey has just eight weeks to prepare the players for their June 17 clash in Portlaoise against the Lilywhites who are just back from an intensive 10-day training camp in Portugal.

But after being relegated to Division 4 under former manager Gerry Cooney, who resigned at the weekend, morale is rock bottom in the camp.