Championship is only six weeks away and Jack O’Connor’s side are a long way from looking ready
Halfway through the Six Nations — must be the end of February. Cheltenham’s on the front pages — it’s the middle of March. Masters, Wimbledon, a new NFL season — April, July, September. We don’t think about this stuff. We don’t, in all truth, think about much of anything, real world-wise.
All of which takes a bit of getting used to. The league is still the league but it feels like the sand is dropping through the hourglass that bit quicker than before. The worth of league form is being updated and re-evaluated on the fly. Roscommon and Mayo seem to be going well. Too well? Too early? Who can tell anymore?
Kerry will, short of an earthquake hitting Gneeveguilla in the interim, be in a Munster final on May 6th. From there, they have at least six and possibly seven games in 11 weeks to win an All-Ireland. Overall, it will take at least eight — a tie for the most games they’ve ever had to play to win Sam, back in 2009. The difference in 2023 is that there are no qualifiers against Sligo, Longford or Antrim. It’s feasible that their three round-robin games could be against Armagh, Tyrone and Kildare.
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