Just wondering who the Kerry lads see as favourite to take over from fitzmaurice. Peter Keane is the bookies favourite. Is there an appetite to give jack a 3rd spell in charge? Personally I think Liam Kearns would be an excellent choice.

jacktheDub (Dublin) - Posts: 944 - 06/08/2018 17:58:12    2130101

Canuck (Waterford) - Posts: 2671 - 06/08/2018 18:12:59    2130107

Maurice Fitzgerald maybe. Keane has done well at underage. Might need a bigger name though. A bit more gravitas. There is a job there to do shifting a few fellas on. If it backfires on Peter Keane then he will be hung, drawn and quartered. Maurice is a legend. I get a feeling he will be allowed some time to get it right. Peter Keane will have to get it right straight away. Too big a job for him at this moment.

bennybunny (Cork) - Posts: 3917 - 06/08/2018 18:49:34    2130117

thelongridge (Offaly) - Posts: 1751 - 06/08/2018 19:20:50    2130133

Peter Keane would be the favourite at this stage.
But don't write off someone from left field like Diarmuid Murphy...one of the only selectors who seemed open to disagree with Eamon Fitzmaurice.

woops (Kerry) - Posts: 2073 - 06/08/2018 19:31:29    2130143

Pat Gilroy

realdub (Dublin) - Posts: 8597 - 06/08/2018 20:05:49    2130150

Personally I wouldn't pick Maurice fitz as he too nice, I wouldn't pick Jack o'connor Either, for me it would be Peter Keane with Donie Buckley or pat O'Shea with Donie Buckley.

KingdomBoy1 (Kerry) - Posts: 14092 - 06/08/2018 20:25:42    2130154

Peter Keane as manager and Donie Buckley has to be involved as a coach.

Kingdomson (Kerry) - Posts: 244 - 06/08/2018 21:03:17    2130174

Pat O'Shea would be my choice but he may not want it. Peter Keane is the most likely at this stage but he doesn't have any inter county experience so the support team around him would need to be very good. Donie Buckley is available after leaving Mayo but nobody knows if he would be willing to take a role in Kerry at this stage.

GeniusGerry (Kerry) - Posts: 2105 - 06/08/2018 21:13:19    2130180

Give it to Colm O'Rouke, the man is a genius about how football should be played. Let him take Kerry next year with his man to man approach, see how far they get.

cacsmckilly (Tyrone) - Posts: 1294 - 06/08/2018 21:15:18    2130183

Pat Spillane surely? Knows what's wrong with everyone else. Seriously it's a big appointment, whoever gets it has a potential golden generation and great expectations so no pressure

lillyboy (Kildare) - Posts: 429 - 06/08/2018 21:53:52    2130208

It's one of the hottest seats in the country with the pressure and expectation it brings. There's a brilliant pipeline just ready to feed in a stream of young players into the Kerry senior panel but will the next manager be given the time to let them develop into a polished team? It might be a case of the guy in two managers time will really reap that benefit so the next Kerry manager might be the one who continues the foundation laying Fitzmaurice has started. There's a few guys who will move on now no doubt but in O'Se and Clifford there's a hell of a platform to build around.

kildare73 (Kildare) - Posts: 854 - 06/08/2018 22:14:36    2130224

Question for the Kerry lads, would you ever take a manager from outside the county? If not, why not?

keithlemon (Australia) - Posts: 920 - 07/08/2018 09:43:12    2130319

After Pat Spillane's rant on Sunday night about the list of things Fitzmaurice didn't do right maybe he should put his hat in the ring seeing as he knows it all, and O'Rourke should assist him seeing as he also's thinks the game is so simple and needs to be played that way. Fitzmaurice did not get everything right and Kerry did seem lost tactically in the last two seasons especially but that is all not down to the management. I don't think he surrounded himself with the best coaches in the country something the next man must do. From the outside looking in it looks to me that the manager should be Peter Keane, with a management team of Tommy Griffin, Declan O'Sullivan, Diarmuid Murphy and Donie Buckley (A must get to sort the defense out). Keane looks like the ideal candidate for me as he can help introduce more young players that they need. However I wouldn't rule out Pat O'Shea as the second most likely to get it. I don't know if it would be wise to go back to Jack O'Connor again, I could be wrong on that one though as he could put a bit of steal back into them, he would not work with Donie Buckley however as they had a falling out hence why Buckley left for Mayo.

BigJoe14 (Meath) - Posts: 935 - 07/08/2018 10:06:00    2130326

cavanman47 (Cavan) - Posts: 5019 - 07/08/2018 11:44:23    2130368

i think Liam Kearns would be the best.. Not for what he has necessarily done with Tipperary but more his style of play, savagely well organised, fast and direct.. I think this would be a good fit. i'd have him in Cavan in the morning..

As an aside.... Cooper on the comments direct towards Fitzmarice, not being GAA... says the lad that had a testimonial

ponger (Cavan) - Posts: 542 - 07/08/2018 12:23:59    2130385

I think westkerry should throw his hat in the ring. He has an undying & unwavering belief in the Kerry panel & is well attuned to the failings & weaknesses of all other teams.

greysoil (Monaghan) - Posts: 965 - 07/08/2018 13:43:30    2130434

I Iike Sugrue. Seems to be turning Laois around, which is a requirement of this job, like his passion too. Only problem for whoever, is success has to be immediate

mhunicean_abu (Monaghan) - Posts: 1044 - 07/08/2018 20:21:20    2130587

TheHermit (Kerry) - Posts: 6354 - 07/08/2018 20:54:55    2130603

Jim McGuinness is looking for a new challenge.

Byanthon (Tyrone) - Posts: 1780 - 08/08/2018 08:39:04    2130713