Eoin Doyle insists Kildare haven't lost their focus, despite being on a 11-match losing run.

The Lilywhites lost all seven of their Allianz League games to make an instant return to Division 2 in the spring and face a tricky Leinster SFC quarter-final local derby against Carlow on Sunday. Doyle believes the league could have turned out differently if they hadn't suffered successive one-point defeats to Tyrone and Monaghan early in the campaign.

"It is hard when you are not winning games, particularly those games that you really could have got something out of," he told the Irish Independent at the recent 2018 Leinster SFC launch.

"Tyrone and Monaghan were both narrow defeats and both early on. If you get an early enough victory under your belt in Division 1, and we've done it in years gone by, you can stay up. You have a different outlook to it. You can go into the next game that bit more confident and that bit less under pressure.

"That's where you really need to take a step back and look and see where you are, what you are doing. We remained focused and we stayed working hard throughout the league and since the league and that's all we can control right now."

Be sure to follow the hoganstand.com Live Match Tracker this weekend for all the latest action from the senior football and hurling championships.

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