Barry Cahill: Beating Dublin can lift Kildare to another level

Barry Cahill believes that Kildare's first league or championship win over Dublin since 2000 can be a watershed moment for the Lilywhites.

Glenn Ryan’s men got the better of their long dominant neighbours by a goal in their Allianz Football League Division 1 clash at Newbridge on Sunday.

"It was a really big win for Kildare," former Dublin star Cahill told 2fm’s Game On.

"A very significant win for this group of players and obviously for the new management team.

"That type of win will bring them to another level in terms of the ideas the management team are bringing to the squad. Two home games now against Kerry and Dublin and they’ve picked up three points.

"A Leinster team beating Dublin is significant. That group of players have suffered a lot to Dublin over the last 10, 12 years.

"They probably hadn’t had a meaningful won over them for 20 years so it was great for Kildare and certainly a win they deserved."

An unusual feature of the contests was the so-often clinical Dubs spurning numerous chances.

"At certain times Dublin were going quite well and they certainly could have got something out of the game if they had been more clinical up front," said 2011 All-Ireland winner Cahill.

"It is unusual to see some of these players with multiple All-Stars and All-Irelands missing chances for points or goals. They probably left about 3-05 on the pitch.

"The positive is that they created the chances but certainly it has been a bit of a pattern over the last three or four games that they haven’t been as clinical as we expect.

"Obviously they had ridiculously high standards after the last seven or eight years but it is a bit of concern for Dessie Farrell and the management team that they aren’t converting these chances.

"And it’s not the