Jack waiting to play trump card and be crowned king

TWICE over the last weekend, Jack O’Connor was questioned in public about his appointment as Kerry manager relative to the circumstances in which Páidí Ó Sé was replaced.

Both times he made it clear that it wasn’t “an easy situation” as it was Ó Sé who introduced him to inter-county management back in 1993.

Despite such circumstances, O’Connor has quickly adapted to life at the helm of a county still shocked by three consecutive defeats at Croke Park in the final phases of the championship.