Kerry's fringe players fail to grasp opportunity

Seven rounds of league fare after Jack O'Connor said there was an opportunity for fringe players, the number of new hands raised within the Kingdom panel are disappointingly few

LIMITED OPTIONS: Kerry manager Jack O'Connor. Pic: Piaras Ó Mídheach/Sportsfile

On the Monday evening before Kerry’s League opener away to Donegal, Jack O’Connor held court upstairs in the Austin Stack Park pavilion.

Straight from the throw-in of this media briefing, Jack detailed the long list of injuries and absentees that meant he would travel to Ballybofey without two-thirds of his All-Ireland final starting team.