Sheehy ‘privileged’ by Kerry call-up
Sheehy was ratified as one of Eamonn Fitzmaurice’s three selectors by the Kerry County Board on Monday and said yesterday: “If you were to say to me when I was coming out of Croke Park after Kerry losing to Donegal last August that I would be involved with the Kerry team next season, I would question whether you were in the real world. But I feel very excited to be truthful. Eamonn (Fitzmaurice) contacted me a few weeks back and he sold me his project in very quick time. I think that these are very exciting times for Kerry football, despite all the doom and gloom of the past two years. I still believe there are fine footballers out there and I just feel privileged to be asked to be involved in trying to improve things.”
Sheehy agrees that Kerry have some rebuilding to do over the next couple of years. “I believe we’ll be using the league to blood new players and certainly the team will have to be freshened up. But the players are there, from looking at the minors and U21’s for the past number of years and there are even players just gone beyond that age that I have seen in the County Championship. I think over the last few years the game has evolved as well and there are players out there that people might think were not up to scratch, but the way the game has changed then you might be looking at getting lads very fit and playing to a system.”
