Andrew Shore washes away Kerry optimism

Kerry 0-8 Wexford 2-25: It may have been a ‘new look’ Austin Stack Park but this was Kerry hurling of bad days gone by. Certainly compared to the amplified expectations of a bumper home crowd that arrived early for the Tralee double-header and a curious TV audience, it was a huge disappointment.

What else can you say at the end of a 23-point annihilation in front of your biggest audience in years? Ciaran Carey courteously tried to make sense of it.

“Prior to this, a lot of people would’ve been waiting for this kind of a hiding to come. The disappointing part from our point of view was for the day that was in it, that they decided to put up a display like that.