On-song O’Donoghue and Keane lead Legion to victory over Mid Kerry

COUNTY SFC ROUND 2A

Mid Kerry 2-9 Legion 2-13 THE GAME IN 60 SECONDS

MAIN MAN

It’s hard to lost past the man who scored 1-6 and lit the place up in a major way and we’re not going to – James O’Donoghue was the main man – but there were other impressive performers. Conor Keane and Jamie O’Sullivan especially. For Mid Kerry Liam Carey and Ciaran Kennedy impressed, while Donnchadh Walsh had a really good second half out around the middle.

outfit. Mid Kerry’s best hope was the breeze. They needed to utilise it and close the gap to the Legion as soon as possible.

To give Seán O’Sullivan’s men their dues they made a good stab at doing just that. In the first ten minutes of the second half they outscored their rivals three points to one and fashioned a goal-scoring opportunity for Kennedy who sent wide.

It really was looking encouraging for Mid Kerry. Legion though dug deep and as they did Mid Kerry’s discipline let them down. In the space of about two minutes Legion converted two scoreable frees and at a stroke all of Mid Kerry’s good work was undone – 2-6 to 2-11 after forty three minutes.

Another pair of O’Donoghue points (one from play, one from a free) by the fifty first minute essentially wrapped the game up and what followed was a pretty scrappy disjointed conclusion as both managers ran the bench, destroying any flow that game enjoyed up to that point.

Mid Kerry can take a certain amount of comfort from the fact they finished the game a little more strongly – with late points from Darran O’Sullivan and Nathan Breen – but they were decidedly second best on this occasion.

With a game against a St Brendans side buoyed by a victory on the road to come this weekend Seán O’Sullivan and his management team will have their work cut out for them.

That said the day belonged to Legion. They might not be back in the big time just yet, but they’re moving in that direction. Into the quarter-finals now, a semi-final (favourable draw permitting) shouldn’t be at all beyond them.

With Jameso in the kind of form he’s in who’s to say they can’t get back to where they were three years ago?