Kerry boss Jack O'Connor drops hint around his future after landing FIFTH All-Ireland crown vs Donegal

The Irish Sun

5 days ago

KING OF KERRY Jack O'Connor admits today's All-Ireland win could be his final farewell as manager.
O'Connor's men romped to their 39th crown as
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O'Connor led his county to Sam Maguire for the FIFTH time today
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Embracing Jason Foley after they ran out 1-26 to 0-19 winners
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Jim McGuinness admitted the better team won on the day
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His wife, Bridie took a photo of him leaving the house on Thursday - and he hinted at a dream exit after Kerry's sizzling performance at Croker.
Kerry are one off a whopping 40 titles - and it remains to be seen if O'Connor will stay at the wheel to take them there.
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He said: 'I think I was on record earlier in the year that it would probably be my last hurrah, do you know, so. I don't want to be telling ye lads before I tell anyone else.
'There's a lot more people down the corridor. Look, we'll do that in due course. There's no hurry.
'I was going out the door Thursday evening with the bag and my mrs took a picture of me going out the gate.
'I have a fair idea that will be up on the wall as my last hurrah. I'd say now she'll be firm on that one.'
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Meanwhile deflated Donegal boss Jim McGuinness
He said: 'We are a wee bit raw. We didn't perform, Kerry did perform. That's the bottom line. They started very early in the game and they got a foothold in the game.
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'I thought we responded quite well in the first half on our attack.
"We were good, we were clinical but I think they might have scored in their first six attacks and we were struggling to deal with them in that period.
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'They went for a lot of twos and they hit a lot of them as well and that was big. David Clifford coming on to those balls on a loop.
"We did a lot of work on him and we did a lot of work in terms of managing him.
'I thought Brendan McCole did actually quite well on him for periods but obviously it does take more than one person to try and close down David and he kicked some brilliant twos.
'From our own point of view we made too many mistakes. We did things that we don't normally do.
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"We made decisions that we don't normally do and we had just too many turnovers.
'We were chasing our tails, that's the bottom line. We had too many turnovers and some of them were off clutch moments.'