Can Kerry challenge the Blue Wave?
The most eager of the nine-to-fivers are still only trickling in to their IFSC offices, but Jim Gavin is already all business. The fancy clock in one of the Gibson Hotel’s corporate suites ticks past 8.05am as the Dublin manager sits down to cross the file marked ‘media’ off his to-do list. A full nine days before their next outing, against Wexford. Man’s in a hurry.
It’s the usual game of cat and mouse. Nearly half-an-hour passes and, come the end, one of the most interesting sentences uttered comes in the form of a question rather than an answer. Did he see Kerry’s team for the game against Clare this week? The word ‘regeneration’ is used, the unveiling of five new faces stressed. Yet the very mention of their name is proof that you never discount Kerry completely, that their shadow always looms.
