Jake Malone is looking forward to playing for Dublin's hurlers under former club boss Mattie Kenny.

Midfielder Malone was a member of the Cuala team that Kenny led to back-to-back All-Ireland Club SHC titles and the Galway man will oversee his first competitive match as Dublin senior hurling manager tonight when the Dubs travel to Dr Cullen Park to face Carlow in the Walsh Cup.

“I suppose it makes it easier in a way, it's probably not as scary as when you come in with new management and you have to impress 24/7, have the best training all the time. It's kind of a little bit more comforting knowing that you can ring him if you have an issue," Malone told gaa.ie.

“Like, last week there I wasn't able to go to one of the trainings because I was working and it's a little bit easier having that conversation. So it is a little bit easier, but in a way I'm not going to be getting any favours in a couple of months down the line either.

“Mattie was training us the exact way we were getting trained at inter-county level. It was to the highest level of professionalism, we had everything down to a T, we had our analysis done, our training blocks done, every little bit of information that was needed was given to us.

“So obviously he'll know get the resources available to him to do that at inter-county level as well. It'll be very interesting to see how it goes next year.”

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