Earley to make decision after surgery
10 September 2010

Dermot Earley will make a decision on his inter-county future after he undergoes surgery on his injured knee.

The long-serving Kildare midfielder was hampered by the injury throughout this year's championship and missed the heartbreaking All-Ireland semi-final defeat to Down after suffering a recurrence of the problem in the quarter-final win over Meath.

"We'll see what happens, the dust is only settling on this year," he told the Irish Daily Star.

"We'll see how the operation goes, how the rehab goes. It's been at me since a couple of weeks before we played Laois in the league. I was able to get through it, but each game it got progressively worse and I ended up doing a good bit of damage against Meath."

The Sarsfields clubman is keeping his fingers crossed that Kieran McGeeney will commit to a fourth season in charge of the Lilywhites.

"It's a difficult period so soon after losing a big match like we did against Down. There is a certain period when you just have to let the dust settle and just everybody take a bit of time to reassess things.

"I am sure that is what everybody is doing. Hopefully we can all get back and give it another go next year," he added.



Sounds fairly encouraging. Hard to see him walking away from it.

I hope Kieran commits to more that a 'fourth year', one more year would have a 'one last big effort' ring about it, 2 - 3 years hopefully, and again ideally with a fit Dermot aboard.

Dont think Dermot will pack it in when he was so close to a Celtic Cross this year, he has the same Drive that Rainbow has. Just having him around the panel gives everyone a boost, this guy is a legend.

The big man will still have a lot to offer

I think he will go for another year. I dont think geezer would let him retire either he would persuade him to have another go,really all year he wasnt fit and the more we played him the more damage we did imo. But now he has time to get fit for next year.

i hope he'll be back and would say he will be if the leg is right - but obviously it'll be April or May before he can start running - remember Mikey Conway? It's a big case of fingers crossed. Everything will need to go right for him. And from what he said in that article, if it doesn't, he'll call it quits

he wont leave,defo will go for another 2 years,well i hope anyway!!!