Fitzmaurice says Kingdom in a better place despite defeat

It was another Kerry defeat but by a different name although it was the same measured Eamonn Fitzmaurice that greeted the press yesterday as he did after the Mayo and Dublin defeats.

But here there were positives to glean as much as he acknowledged the 16 wides was a considerably inaccurate total.

“A lot of them were scores that we could have got. Even if we had got a quarter of them, we’d have got over the line. We’d be disappointed with that, but definitely from our point of view we’d be pleased with the second-half display.