Jack O'Connor admits pressure on Kerry players is suffocating

This is the price of failure in Kerry, the price for a no-show like the one against Meath, where Kerry fell to their heaviest championship defeat in 24 years.

DISCOMFORTS OF HOME: Jack O'Connor with his backroom team during the clash with Cavan on Saturday. Pic: INPHO/James Lawlor

KERRY manager Jack O’Connor has admitted he feared that the suffocating pressure would get to some of his younger Kerry players as they recovered from last week’s Tullamore to book an All-Ireland quarter-final place with a win over Cavan.

As man of the match David Clifford explicitly called for Kerry supporters to back their side in big numbers next week in Croke Park, O’Connor admitted that Fitzgerald Stadium on Saturday was a difficult environment for some of his players to express themselves.