O’Brien banks on Kerry not being ‘perfect’ again

SIX days on from their tour-de-force in Croke Park, the real merit of Kerry’s performance in their annihilation of Dublin was again being questioned – this time in the context of how strong a challenge Meath will be capable of mounting against them in the All-Ireland SFC semi-final in three weeks time.

And, whatever could be said about the stunningly poor display given by the Leinster champions, the Royals’ manager Eamonn O’Brien had no doubt that the exhibition from Jack O’Connor’s team was as close to being perfect as you could expect.

O’Brien readily acknowledged that their display a week ago was special – that in all of facets of play he hadn’t witnessed such quality for many years.