We must get our house in order

Get the house in order or soon there will be no house to worry about — that was the blunt message from Offaly’s Brian Carroll to his own county board after this latest humiliation at the hands of Kilkenny.

“We’re going to have to really look at if for the future or there will be no future for Offaly hurling,” he said.

“We’re light years behind in terms of development at the moment, the facilities we’re working with are not good enough. That can be seen as a crutch too, that doesn’t affect the senior team that’s there at the moment, doesn’t affect our performance today.