Brian Carroll: ‘It’s going to take a hell of a lot of work to get Offaly moving in the right direction’

Carroll didn’t Offaly's loss to Westmeath as a blip or a one-off. He saw it as a strong dose of reality

Brief reference, if you don’t mind, to that anonymous column in the Offaly Express that has brought sharp focus to a game which was in danger of passing through without anyone paying it the slightest bit of attention, writes Eoghan Cormican.

Former Offaly hurler Brian Carroll read the column and would have liked if the author’s name had been attached to a piece of writing which made clear that if Offaly don’t get over Westmeath in tomorrow evening’s Leinster quarter-final, then the county should simply give up hurling.