Kerry manager Jack O'Connor insists he is not overly concerned by losing Tommy Walsh, Tadhg Kennelly and David Moran to Aussie Rules.
The trio have all taken the decision to turn to Australia for their sporting future and while O’Connor admits that they will be missed, he is confident that Kerry can absorb their losses.
'It's a big blow but we will just have to get on with it now,' the Kingdom boss told the Irish Independent.
'I suppose the one thing about it is that we used an awful lot of players last year in the league and there will be a number of players now chomping at the bit during the closed season, hoping to get a shot at it in the New Year.
'That's where the challenge is in it - to rejuvenate the team and rejig it again. Look, I wouldn't give up the ghost at all. There are always a couple of players coming through in Kerry.
'Just looking back at other years, if you said that we would win the All-Ireland final in 2004 without Darragh O Se and Seamus Moynihan starting in the final, you would say that's mad because they were our best players at the time.'
