\u201cI just hope that the GAA do the right thing now, and give the final date the respect it deserves. We had six lads sitting exams today. They talk about well-being for players, and this shouldn\u2019t be happening,\u201d he stressed at Semple Stadium.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s an All-Ireland final. You have teams in that final now, from one end of the country to the other end, and there\u2019s going to be a huge amount of travelling, and an overnight.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat game cannot be played midweek. I don\u2019t know what they\u2019re going to do with it, but they\u2019d want to show a bit of respect to lads, and take that into account.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
The An Ghaeltacht man has got his wish, with Kerry and Tyrone enjoying a 17-day gap between their semi-final triumphs. This was never about \u00d3 S\u00e9 though. This was about the players.<\/p>\n
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Kerry’s Killian Dennehy is an injury doubt for the All-Ireland U20 football final. Pic:\u00a0 \u00a9INPHO\/Ryan Byrne<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was that one specific fixture (the final) I think that was going to happen a week later, and I\u2019d imagine that if it was two counties that were located closer together, the fixture would have gone ahead,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou couldn\u2019t, realistically, play Tyrone and Kerry midweek for an All-Ireland final. I don\u2019t agree with All-Ireland finals, or All-Ireland semi-finals, being played midweek anyway.<\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t want to have a dig or anything, but it\u2019s a huge game, and a huge game for young fellas, who have been training all year, for months and months. A weekend game is what it should be.<\/p>\n
\u201cI get the midweek stuff with the provincials, but the same length of travel isn\u2019t involved there. After that Roscommon game, after extra-time, for us to even prepare for an All-Ireland final, and the turnaround, would have been difficult.<\/p>\n
\u201cPeople don\u2019t realise what\u2019s involved, and the logistics of the whole thing. It would have been just bedlam. I\u2019m not saying we wouldn\u2019t have done it. Of course we would have got on with it, as Tyrone would have had to get on with it.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s gone to Croke Park now and all that, and I think the right thing has been done. We weren\u2019t looking for two weeks, we weren\u2019t looking for three weeks. We were basically just looking for a non-midweek game.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
Kerry lined out against the Connacht champions without key midfielder\/forward Killian Dennehy. The Cordal clubman is recovering from a hamstring issue, while vice-captain David Mulvihill remains on the injured list.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe still have another week so, hopefully, he (Killian) will be right,” said \u00d3 S\u00e9. “He hasn\u2019t done a lot of training, so he\u2019s still not back to 100% but, hopefully the week will tell a lot. Hopefully we will have him available for selection, but we don\u2019t know yet.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kerry U-20 football manager Tom\u00e1s \u00d3 S\u00e9 doesn\u2019t feel any way personally vindicated by the GAA\u2019s decision to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":467090,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[177329,4365,6937,61,60,112],"class_list":["post-467089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-championship-2026","tag-gaelic-football","tag-kerry-gaa","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467089","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=467089"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467089\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/467090"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=467089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=467089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=467089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}