Kerry GAA discussion thread #2

His term is up. The majority of the footballing public is against his reappointment. We are nearly as far away from winning Sam as when he was appointed.

He should have have walked away. He had the chance to do that with dignity he chose not to. It was like when he took over 3 years ago there was a hullabaloo over the fact he did not contact some senior players, the fact he did not contact them gave those players to announce there retirement, they choose not to. I defended him over that just them he had his chance to make a public announcement.

I do not think any time f the present management or coaches should be involved in the new set up unless the new management team expresses there confidence in them

well his 3 years is up... so hes no longer manager as such... as far as i know hes not looking for another year....

Seamus Moynihan & Donie Buckley is a great ticket

I've seen this a lot. People literally typing one sentence. Xx and yy would be great.

But nobody ever elaborates and says why the people they mention would be any good.

I'm not seeing any reason why Seamus and Donie should get the gig. We all know Donie is a great coach, defensively solid but what has his name in lights for the county job?

And Seamus? Apart from being a legend in the kingdom. What are his managerial credentials for a job that is expected to deliver an All Ireland every year?

I'm genuinely interested in anyone's thoughts cos when I ask people in real life, they just say ah who else is there or they'd be the men for the job. Maybe online people have a chance to think longer and come up with an answer.

https://www.irishexaminer.com/sport/gaa/arid-40703783.html

This whole **** show has me thinking that maybe we have a bigger issue then PKs position. Are the Kerry county board executive capable of bringing us back to the top by making the correct decisions and having the best structures in place. Should Tim Murphy, Eamon Whelan and Co get their p45s also?

Whoever gets the job now is going to be under incredible pressure for immediate results.

Jack is back from what I've heard this evening

Dont know what to make of it. History wont be kind to PK but best of luck to him. One of the toughest jobs in the game with massive expectation so takes balls to take it on.

Is Jack the best bet? I bloody hope so cos at the moment there is absolutely nothing to suggest this team has an all Ireland in them. I'd hate to turn into a Mayo and a team of nearly men, going in with hope every year only to be let down so consistenly, so I really hope they win one in the next 2 or 3 years.

Regardless, we will support the lads so best of luck to the new management team. We go again.

I really and truly hope you're right. I dont see it but I'll never be more happy to be wrong if they get over the line soon.

A massively regressive step for Kerry football. Jack O Connor owes Kerry football nothing and will tarnish his legacy massively. A tactically prehistoric manager combined Mike Quirke, Mike Quirke!!! Mike Quirke was a route 1 only footballer and has been a massively unsuccessful inter county coach. He has zero credentials to be involved with this team. 2 more years of David Clifford and Sean O Shea’s promising football careers going to be wasted. Such disappointing news this evening.

It makes zero sense. Laois went backwards with Quirke. If he wanted a former Laois coach John Sugrue would have been a better choice.

On a more important point, Joe O Connor was willing to be involved with Moynihans set up. I wonder would there be any chance of him being involved under Jacks? #McgahahanOut

Yep the more competition the better, he certainly looked a decent prospect at the underage codes,

I'm happy enough with the Jack appointment, the panel is excellent imo, just abit of tinkering here and there and more game sense on the line, which I do think Jack had plenty of. Should be interesting

The players were hardly going to tell him they didn’t want him in case he got reappointed.

I think that is being hard on Eamon quite honestly. He brought a lot of young lads through in 2018 when he felt they were ready, by all accounts they were not earning their places in training up to then, and many of them just weren’t physically up to it.

The 2017 replay was a disappointment and he definitely got several things wrong, Donnachadh Walsh started but clearly wasn’t fit, playing Murphy as sweeper didn’t work etc. The one that really got me was leaving Enright on Moran for the most of two games when he was getting destroyed. It was a huge factor in him winning POTY as you have mentioned.

Fitzmaurice wasn’t perfect but he wasn’t as terrible as some are making out either IMO. They were always competitive and I think the panel was limited in places if we are being fair to him. He never had great defenders and the ones that were there weren’t even great going forward, he had no centre forward either, remember Paul Murphy playing there at one stage? I think the current panel is better than what he was working with for most of his time from 2013-18. Just my own opinion

I completely agree that fringe players should be allowed play club football btw

Fitzmaurice also dragged everyone's favourite punchbags, the Kerry supporters, into it when he was leaving. Classic deflection (boxes of anonymous letters shocker!!! So typical of those Kerry savages, look what I had to put up with !!!) and the media fell for it, hook, line and sinker.

I think the County Board should have been clearer from the off, once we lost to Tyrone, they could have issued a short statement saying PK's term is up, we'll now commence the recruitment process and thanked PK and his colleagues for their work. Very shabby that they still have not been thanked regardless of what you think of them, there is not doubt that they put time and effort in over the past 3 years.

The timing is also interesting, you'd wonder if JOC was already on 'a promise' of the job, if we lost to Tyrone (or Mayo in the final).