Laois hurling manager Eddie Brennan says he’s relishing the challenge of plotting against his home county next summer.
Set to enter into his second year as O’Moore County boss, the former Kilkenny star will be keen to build on his side’s championship form of this past season which saw them reaching the All-Ireland SHC quarter-finals.
2020 will see championship games at home against Galway and Wexford in Portlaoise, with one fixture at Nowlan Park standing out especially.
"It's something that I've been churning over in my head. I'm very mixed on it because you are who you are, I'm a Kilkenny person and I left Croke Park very hurt in August because it's who you are and it comes out in you," he told the Irish Independent.
"But I'm looking forward to the challenge of seeing if I'm capable of getting a team ready for Nowlan Park because I know it will be one of the ultimate tests of what's in a lad's belly. You're a bit like the devil arriving in to Nowlan Park.
"It'll be mixed emotions either way but I'm looking forward to seeing how the lads will measure up because I look at that match - they are all important, obviously - as a test of these guys in terms of where are they at but it's something I'm definitely not looking forward to in a way."
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