Colin Kelly: Louth are much better prepared this season

Leinster SFC R1

Croke Park has long carried a reputation as a stadium which lays bare any weaknesses a team may hope to keep concealed, but Semple Stadium has tarnished enough reputations down the years to be hitched to that same wagon.

More often than not it has been hurlers who have been exposed under the microscope of the iconic Thurles venue, but it proved to be an equally unforgiving ground for a quartet of sides during the course of the 2015 football championship.