Tadhg Morley is an important player for Kerry.
By Cian O'Connell
It has been a strange and testing year, but Tadhg Morley is delighted that the Munster SFC is taking place.
Sunday's Pairc Ui Chaoimh encounter will be the latest addition to Cork and Kerry's rivalry, but the importance of sport has been underlined in 2020.
“It is a privilege and honour to always to be able to play with Kerry and it is even more so this year when you have the opportunity to go and play the game that we love," Morley admits.
"While a lot of the population can’t do things that they enjoy doing so we are in that privileged position.
"We are taking it day by day and week by week and it is fantastic that it is going ahead and giving the people at home, the Kerry supporters, something to cheer about. Something to watch and something to talk about during the week.”
Football talk will always swirl around the Kingdom and that was even the case during the first lockdown.
Four months of no collective training and matches hurt, but Morley kept himself busy.
“When you look at our defence there is certainly a few things we could have improved in the last few months," Morley states.
Kerry's Tadhg Morley in Allianz Football League action against Monaghan last month.
"Even during the lockdown, we worked on things individually. There was a couple of things for me to be thinking about.
"You would be thinking about matches, different times in games and different things.”
The extended stint with Templenoe also provided excitement and a sense of fun.
“From a personal perspective having that little bit of time with the club this year was fantastic," Morley acknowledges.
"The few months training and going to games with the lads and participating in a lot of trainings with them was brilliant.
"With our squad, our numbers can be tight and with four in with the county team, things can get a little bit hairy at times.
"So it is fantastic for club players especially to have us at every session and it helped us along during the summer and we had an enjoyable summer together.
"We were in the Senior Club Championship for the first time ever so we had an enjoyable crack off of it as well.”
