Kerry FC

When you are novices at any level of sport, making your way in a cut-throat world, it is all about the little incremental gains from week to week.

We have players who can come on and influence it that way, but that final chance never really fell for us in the second half.” “Myself, as a manager or a coach or whatever you want to call it, after a game, I always analyse myself first, and things I could have changed, and maybe helped the team, or done better with, and the players are the same. We just couldn’t get that goal early on when we were dominating the game, and I think it would have had a big impact on the result. You could see that we played on the front foot as a confident team, and took the game to Athlone, and that was very pleasing to see. The young lads on the team are playing with such composure in possession, and they’re comfortable on the ball. We just couldn’t get that goal, and that always keeps Athlone in the game,” he said.