On going straight to the All-Ireland quarter-finals O’Connor said: ‘It’s vital [to have the week off] because these are high-octane games, they’re playing the bones of 80 minutes, so lads need two or three days to recover. We’re delighted to get two weeks’
Kerry manager Jack O’Connor arrives before the All-Ireland SFC Group 4 round 3 match against Louth at O’Moore Park in Portlaoise. Needless to say O’Connor left the venue pretty pleased with himself too after the team’s 14-point win. Photo by Sportsfile
They might have been similar margins of victory in the end, but Kerry manager Jack O’Connor was much more enthused with the performance against Louth than he had been two weeks previously after the earlier group stage win over Meath.
With the Kingdom concluding their Group 4 campaign with a fairly effortless 14-point destruction of a gallant Louth outfit at O’Moore Park, the Munster champions now face a two-week break before the All-Ireland quarter-finals as the competition finally gets serious.
