We had to hit the ground running, says Éamonn Fitzmaurice

It wouldn’t be amiss to say Kerry have never looked this impressive so early in the season under Éamonn Fitzmaurice.

And he wasn’t exactly denying it either.

“Well, other years there was mitigating circumstances. Other years there have been big team holidays and we have had very little training done. In 2013, we’d a lot of injuries, a lot of fellas on club duty and we won the McGrath Cup that year, which was probably a hindrance afterwards because it was the same pool of players that were playing five or six weeks in a row and we weren’t able to rotate much.