Paddy Christie hopes his side are inspired by Croker

Tue, 23rd June 2015

Dublin minor football manager, Paddy Christie, is hoping his team are inspired by the opportunity of playing in Croke Park in this Sunday’s Leinster MFC semi-final against Kildare (12.0).

“It is something that you accept and hope that your team is inspired by and while it will definitely be an advantage for whoever wins on Sunday in terms of their preparations for the Leinster Final, I don’t think having the match there is going to be the losing of the match for either team.

“With the beaten team having no second chance, it is a massive game for both teams where the winner takes it all.

“I would imagine both teams would be happy to crawl over the finish line by a point and take it from there,” adds Paddy.

The Dubs have a few injury concerns ahead of Sunday’s clash with both Kevin Callaghan and Stephen Smith ruled out while there are injury concerns over a number of other players including centre-forward Barra McGarry.