No complacency in Kingdom

KERRY manager Jack O’Connor is determined that his players will not be lulled into any false sense of security in advance of Sunday’s All-Ireland football quarter-final against Mayo.

Specifically, he is dismissive of talk that the westerners’ didn’t give themselves much of a chance after finding it so difficult to beat Cavan last weekend. “We have heard all that stuff before,’’ says O’Connor. “The object of the exercise for them was to get a win - and it did not matter what kind of a win it was. Any ‘soft’ talk after the game we will take with a pinch of salt.”

Nevertheless, he stresses the importance of having his team mentally geared up for the game, that with the preparations having gone well and the injuries cleared up, it’s just now matter of travelling to Croke Park “in the right frame of mind.”