Maybe there is another kick in Kerry

Munster SFC Semi-Final replay

THOSE who would see last weekend’s drawn Munster SFC semi-final diminished because of the amount of hand-passing, the reluctance to kick ball, the lateral movement and retention of possession should give it a rest. If we are to accept Jack O’Connor and Conor Counihan along with Mickey Harte as the pre-eminent strategists in the game today, then we must accept that the way their charges play the game as being the most effective way of winning a football match.

Those of us who still hark back to the good old days when the ball was kicked diagonally from distance into a big full forward with two satellite corner forwards orbiting him, don’t actually realise what an age of innocence we were all living in back then.