Ó Sé: Cox’s travel option may have sealed his Kingdom fate

Kerry great Tomás Ó Sé has suggested that the decision of Conor Cox to leave the Kingdom set-up to travel early in his career may have hurt his chances of making it with the county. Ó Sé played alongside Cox in 2013 before retiring later that year and while Cox went on to play in subsequent league games for Kerry up until 2016, he never made a Championship breakthrough.

That didn’t come for the Listowel man until he threw in his lot with Roscommon, the county of his father, earlier this year and powered them to a historic Connacht title success. Cox struck five points in Sunday’s final win over Galway including a brilliant injury-time score from the outside of his right boot way out on the left wing.