TONY LEEN: Fitzmaurice not fretting over slides of March

It’s only a dozen years since Kerry kicked off the national league with four successive losses, but back in 2001 no-one was kicking them out of September equations for the foreseeable future. If they were, the white coats were never far away.

Two pointless games into Eamonn Fitzmaurice’s term as Kerry coach, and some are warning of the slides of March and of years of famine.

“I don’t pay them any heed,” Fitzmaurice said yesterday. “Sometimes I think some of the stuff that is written by people who would like it to be true, but I don’t think we are finished and I would not have taken the job if I thought this group were finished.”