I retract what I said earlier if you slow it down the tyrone lad would have meet gooch square on the shoulder if the other tyrone scrumbag hadn’t tripped him.
If that second penalty had been given, as it should have been, Kerry weren’t getting out with a win. Dress it up any way you like, but the referee decided that.
We created 4/5 goal chances in that game despite feeding on scraps in the primary possession area. McCurry and Morgan blew about 5 pointable frees in that game, Deegan definitely seemed to favour Kerry but I’ll watch it back.
We lost it in the kickout areas, I have sympathy for Morgan, he’s between a rock and a hard place in that if he kicks it long Kerry are going to win it and trying to play it short and pick a pass inside his 45 is really high risk. He should be taking the safe option and kicking it long. It’s nothing special Kerry do in this regard, it’s quite easy and obvious to enforce, they just have massive men in the middle of the pitch who we were always going to struggle to compete with in fielding.
Thought Justy, McCann, McAliskey and Bradley were immense. O’Brien was superb for Kerry and Geaney caused us lots of problems when he came on.
It will be very interesting to see if any attention will shone on Crowley trying to get a rile out of Cavanagh all game long. A lot was made of Justy McMahon on Michael Murphy against Donegal but Crowley was at it all game long and tried to get Cavanagh sent off early on in the first half.
Proud of the boys today, lessons learned and we’ll hopefully be back next year to finish the job.
Gooch Cooper once again shat his pants in a big game, when the going gets tough he doesn’t want to know about it.
Conor Clarke looked way off the pace when he came on, seems to have lost a serious amount of pace since he’s came back from his cruciate operation, looks to be far to bulked up as well.