DARRAN O’SULLIVAN IS confident that Kerry are in decent shape heading into the quarter-finals of the All-Ireland SFC.
After leading by seven points at half-time, the Kingdom held on to defeat Cork yesterday – winning a 75th Munster title and stretching the Rebels’ 18-year winless run at Fitzgerald Stadium.
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Although they stuttered somewhat in the second half, 27-year-old O’Sullivan, who lined out from the start having being introduced as a substitute in the previous two Munster championship games, says last year’s beaten quarter-finalists are in better shape than 12 months ago.
“We’re in good nick,” said the Glenbeigh-Glencar man. “We’re after winning three home games which you don’t get too often. The first two were fairly comfortable and this one was a right battle.
“There was serious heat out there. We were hoping to have six games this year, we’ve three of them done. We’re in Croke Park where we wanted to be and we’ll take it from here now.
“I can’t speak for everyone else but I’m feeling very good. I’ve only moved home in the last five or six weeks so it’s my first run at training without missing anything so I’m finally feeling the rewards of putting the hard work in the last couple of weeks. I’m feeling good and I’m sure a few of the boys are looking and feeling good at the moment as well.
“At times we moved the ball well but there’s a lot of stuff we have to work on yet. We’re not going to get carried away. It was a win, it’s a Munster championship and it’s a medal in the pocket and another big game to come.”
Kerry have a wait to find out who they will meet in four weeks’ time, but it’s not a major concern according to O’Sullivan.
It doesn’t really bother me,” he added. “At this stage, you really have to worry about yourselves. I think a lot of teams are worrying about the opposition too much and trying to stop them.
We’re going to try and work on our own game for the next three weeks or so and in the week leading up to the game you’ll focus in and try and zone in on a few of their things but at least it gives us time to work on ourselves, which I think is the most important thing.”
O'Sullivan believes Kerry in better shape than 12 months ago
DARRAN O’SULLIVAN IS confident that Kerry are in decent shape heading into the quarter-finals of the All-Ireland SFC.
After leading by seven points at half-time, the Kingdom held on to defeat Cork yesterday – winning a 75th Munster title and stretching the Rebels’ 18-year winless run at Fitzgerald Stadium.
Although they stuttered somewhat in the second half, 27-year-old O’Sullivan, who lined out from the start having being introduced as a substitute in the previous two Munster championship games, says last year’s beaten quarter-finalists are in better shape than 12 months ago.
“We’re in good nick,” said the Glenbeigh-Glencar man. “We’re after winning three home games which you don’t get too often. The first two were fairly comfortable and this one was a right battle.
“There was serious heat out there. We were hoping to have six games this year, we’ve three of them done. We’re in Croke Park where we wanted to be and we’ll take it from here now.
“I can’t speak for everyone else but I’m feeling very good. I’ve only moved home in the last five or six weeks so it’s my first run at training without missing anything so I’m finally feeling the rewards of putting the hard work in the last couple of weeks. I’m feeling good and I’m sure a few of the boys are looking and feeling good at the moment as well.
“At times we moved the ball well but there’s a lot of stuff we have to work on yet. We’re not going to get carried away. It was a win, it’s a Munster championship and it’s a medal in the pocket and another big game to come.”
Kerry have a wait to find out who they will meet in four weeks’ time, but it’s not a major concern according to O’Sullivan.
We’re going to try and work on our own game for the next three weeks or so and in the week leading up to the game you’ll focus in and try and zone in on a few of their things but at least it gives us time to work on ourselves, which I think is the most important thing.”
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