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Rushe not writing off Dublin
Liam Rushe has voiced his surprise at the level of changes made to the Dublin senior hurling panel for 2017 but he believes they can still be competitive.
Manager Ger Cunningham has rung the changes to his squad with Johnny McCaffrey, Peter Kelly and Paul Ryan among those who did not make the cut, while a number of new faces have been called up.
In total a dozen players from the 2013 Leinster Championship-winning panel are no longer involved but, while he has been surprised at the number of changes to the squad, Rushe sees no reason why they could not challenge for honours in 2017.
"There are always going to be people who are not happy with not getting game time, or this, that of the other, or injuries are mounting up and frustrations just grow, and that's what happened with a certain number of people," Rushe is quoted as saying in the Irish Sun.
"The management didn't envisage certain roles for certain players and maybe they weren't happy with that, and disagreements happen, they happen in every panel and that's what happened us this year.
"There are two ways you can look at it. You can look at it negatively and people have said to me we're done and dusted already, but at the same time, Clare came out of nowhere in 2013.
"Waterford in 2014, no one expected a thing - again that's two seriously young panels and nobody knew about Austin Gleeson then."
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