Daniel Collins: Past five years ‘a failure’ for Kerry hurling

The recently appointed Kerry captain insisted that “anything other than winning the Joe McDonagh” in 2021 is “a failure”

The recently appointed Kerry captain felt the team played “fairly poorly” in December’s two-point Joe McDonagh Cup final defeat to Antrim. Picture: INPHO/Morgan Treacy

Kerry’s inability to secure hurling championship silverware since 2015 means the past five years must be seen as “a failure”, according to the county’s new captain, Daniel Collins.

Collins was half-back on the Kerry team which won hurling’s second-tier championship — then the Christy Ring Cup - in 2015, but recent efforts to land the Joe McDonagh title have been in vain.