Fear factor fires Dr Crokes

Kerry SFC final

Factor in three county final defeats as a player, to South Kerry (2005, 2006 and 2009) and you begin to understand the place he trawls for motivation.

“Growing up, I remember coming out of Austin Stack Park and the Crokes having lost finals in 1987 to Kenmare and in 1988 to St Kieran’s. I remember 1994 in Fitzgerald Stadium and losing to Stacks in a replay. I remember how hard it was for those Crokes teams to get to that level,” he recalls.