| Hurlers aim for Kildare highspot
 By
Jerome O’Connell
London hurlers will put their promotion hopes on the line when they face
Kildare on Saturday.
Mick O’Dea’s men showed a much-improved performance in beating
Mayo but the London manager has long believed that Kildare — as
Ring Cup semi-finalists — posed the biggest threat of all the teams
in the league apart from Westmeath.
Kildare lost their opening match of the league to Mayo but their running
of Ring Cup winners to two points was described by O’Dea as “excellent”.
He said: “I thought at the start of the season that Westmeath were
maybe a bit ahead of the rest in this division and Kildare and ourselves.
Kerry have surprised me a bit but I still think that if we get by Kildare
promotion is a possibility.”
Kildare have been knocking around the top end of hurling’s lower
tier for a number of years and new manager Noel Dormey has tried to improve
the fitness levels.
He said: “We have very little hurling done. We are concentrating
on the Ring Cup.”
London boss Mick O’Dea is expected to retain the same players who
served him so well against Mayo although a decision will not be made until
closer to the day about the prospects of captain Fergus McMahon starting.
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