Lee Keegan doesn’t have much faith in Kildare winning the Tailteann Cup.

The Lilywhites have arguably the best team in the Tailteann Cup on paper, but their wretched form – they’ve lost eight of their nine competitive games so far this year – had led the former Mayo star to question their appetite for the second-tier championship.

"Kildare look like a shell of a team, to be brutally honest. They deserve to be in the Tailteann Cup," Keegan told the RTÉ GAA podcast.

"They've lost seven league games, they got out of jail against Wicklow. I'd worry about them, even in that. Will there be a falloff in players, will they lose interest?

"The Tailteann Cup has been great but just looking at Kildare, I don't know if the players will want to (compete in it). Look at them yesterday (in the Leinster SFC semi-final). Biggest game of the year, with a potential place in Sam Maguire there. And you go out and perform like that.

"Louth weren't even in top gear. I don't know where Kildare go from here. They need to create something in that group. They have no identity. Even the gameplan they were playing, I don't think they know what they're doing.

"I don't know how you pick that team up. Meath were able to adapt to the Tailteann Cup, come out of it and now they're competing at a better level. I don't think Kildare could do that."

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