South look to ‘special’ talent

WHEN manager James O’Sullivan speaks of the “special” type of player that has brought South Kerry to the brink of successive Kerry SFC titles, he isn’t necessarily referring to the silken skills of Maurice Fitzgerald.

“When you are playing for a divisional side, your head is as important as your feet. Some of our lads are serving three masters - club, division and county - and you don’t pick them on football alone. It takes a special kind of player.”

Perhaps that is part of the reason South Kerry struggled to re-establish itself as a potent Championship force. Talent was never an issue, but knitting the diverse strands clearly was.