Kerry need to look around and learn

There are a pair of reasons folk serious about their Kerry football are scanning the horizons with intent and intensity this week.

With a three-time All-Ireland winning coach gone, senior players looking for signals on the future — theirs and that of Kerry football — and the opposition multiplying and getting stronger by the year, the choice of replacement for Jack O’Connor is one Kerry GAA leaders cannot afford to get wrong.

Theirs isn’t an easy task. That horizon is hardly sprinkled with capable replacements for O’Connor, still considered by many within the county as the best man to take the Kingdom’s footballers into 2013.