Martin Comerford says Kilkenny will miss their recently-retired trio.

Eddie Brennan, James 'Cha' Fitzpatrick and PJ Ryan have all called time on their intercounty careers and former Black & Amber star Comerford reckons the vastly-experienced trio will be sorely missed.

He told the Examiner he was particularly taken aback by Brennan's decision to hang up the hurl:

"I thought he had another couple of years in him. If you gave him a chance of a goal, he always took the gamble of going for it rather than taking a safe option. You never saw too many of his shots saved, he always sent them low off the sod.

"He was a great man to train and a great leader in that Kilkenny panel. He will be a very big loss. It's hard to think of a Kilkenny team without Eddie Brennan there.

"It's going to be a big gap in the panel in my opinion, even from a training point of view. Brian likes to play 15-on-15 and if you take 'Cha' or Eddie, they would have been testing a player.

"Look at a corner back. He might be on an inexperienced panel member, whereas Eddie's experience and speed would have tested him. You'd know what you have going up to Croke Park if you were trying out a new lad. You'd know he was tested on a quality player of Eddie's standard before you left Kilkenny.

"The same for 'Cha', who was part of four lads trying out for midfield. You knew if either of the Michaels were good enough to hurl 'Cha', they were good enough to hurl any other midfielder in Ireland." Tweet

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