Replying To Onion Breath:  "Down were poor but another very good performance from U-20 hurlers yesterday. Won by 4-29 to 0-10. Really impressive half forward line of Colm Kavanagh, Jake Nolan and Ruairi Murphy - all senior stars of the future with Jake Nolan one who could get a starting place soon if he keeps this improving form up. I saw this team lose badly in their first game against Kerry and they were terrible and by the end of it they had lost discipline which is never a good sign. But two great wins v Westmeath and Down now puts them in a good position to win this Leinster B. Fair play to management for turning this around as they were a write off after the Kerry match, for me anyway.

Minor hurlers took a trimming off Antrim yesterday up in Dublin but in fairness Antrim have been beating most teams by similar and Carlow seemed to rest most of the dual players probably no harm after the tough football match during the week and with the minor football all Ireland starting soon."