Sheehan has Feale in his sights

THE moment Kerry exited the Munster championship against Cork in June and were consigned to the qualifiers, James Sheehan resigned himself to an idle summer.

The Mid Kerry boss oversaw the champions’ first defence of their Kerry SFC title against Laune Rangers on June 21 when they fell over the line by a point. Now 16 weeks later, he takes his team into a championship quarter-final against Feale Rangers the 2007 champions. The interim period has been a trying, arduous process.

“It’s the same old story with divisional teams with this setup in the county. Straight away when Kerry lost in Munster, everyone knew we were in for a long year. You’ve been trying to organise challenge games, but the county board will put on club games at the weekend so you don’t have some players. It’s difficult for everybody.