Golden moment no. 33

IT’S almost too simple to comprehend. In hindsight. Kerry scout Mayo and suss that their full-back line have an aversion to going backwards. Well, not so much an aversion as not having any reason to do so.

Can it possibly be true that Mayo’s training was so geared towards getting quality low ball into the Mortimers that nobody thought to broaden the defence’s arsenal, too?

“We figured that the defence wouldn’t have much high ball pumped into them at training, so we decided to test them out in that area first,” Kerry coach Jack O’Connor revealed last night.