The debate continues to rumble on ahead of Sunday’s county senior final.
Declan Bogue LOOK TO THE Deep South, and a bout of navel gazing about the state of their senior football championship as two divisional teams; Mid Kerry and East Kerry get ready to face each other for the second season running in the decider this Sunday.
“This does not make sense and any team could be relegated any year, as we saw last year with Austin Stacks.”For the sympathy expressed towards them by Kelly, the system has been very good for Kerry when it comes to competing in the Munster and All-Ireland series at intermediate and junior level.
But from when St Michael’s/Foilmore won the first competition in 2001, only Cork’s Carbery Rangers , Canovee and Knocknagree have snatched the Munster junior title out of Kerry. That’s 18 times Kerry clubs have lifted the Munster title out of 21 competitions.
The difficulty here is that some divisional teams lack identity. Especially if the clubs in that region are vibrant, which is certainly the case in west Kerry where Dingle won the Kerry club football championship this year.Cast your mind back to the mid-80s and Páidí Ó Sé showing some savage ambition. He wanted to be a Kerry captain but he needed to be part of a successful championship-winning team to be nominated for the honour.
The intermediate level in Kerry as a result has become absolutely cut-throat. At the start of the year, Ó Cinnéide found himself in the company of some Austin Stacks stalwarts. That game was a microcosm of an awful lot of what is happening in Kerry football right now. And if Kerry’s establishment sneezes, the rest of the country might catch a cold.
The real winners in all this, is the likes of Fossa. A suburb of Killarney, there is a population explosion there. The club of the two Cliffords also have the most powerful recruitment weapon going.
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