Kelly: Kildare can’t dwell on scale of Croker task

For a team with just one win in their last eight trips to Croke Park, the fact the opposition is Dublin makes Kildare’s challenge in this Sunday’s Leinster final all the more onerous.

Niall Kelly doesn’t shy away from that fact or that he senses expectation in the county following the comprehensive win over Meath has been dampened by the manner in which the All-Ireland champions crushed Westmeath the following weekend.

Dublin can’t be ignored but then Kildare can’t afford to be obsessed with them either.