Kildare have started afresh, declares Eamonn Callaghan

Eamonn Callaghan says Kildare have been forced to view the championship as a completely new season after a disastrous league campaign ended with relegation to Division 3.

The Kildare football captain admits the Lilywhites have struggled to move past their league collapse and accepts there is little or no expectation surrounding Jason Ryan’s squad ahead of their Leinster SFC opener against Laois tomorrow.

“At the start of the year, we were playing very well in the O’Byrne Cup. We hit the Down game, the first league game in good form. I think we were four or six points up in the last minute of that game. Cruising. All of a sudden, a bit of a collapse and we didn’t really recover after that,” said Callaghan.