Jack O’Connor wasn’t getting carried away with Kerry’s facile Allianz Football League final win over Mayo.

The Kingdom boss suggested that Mayo had “one eye, if not two” on their big Connacht SFC quarter-final showdown with Galway at MacHale Park in three weeks’ time.

"It's hard to know how much intent Mayo had," O’Connor said on RTÉ.

"One eye, if not two of their eyes were on the Connacht championship game in three weeks, so it's hard to know [where we are].

"We've five weeks until our Munster championship game with Cork and maybe that meant we could go a bit more flat-out today. That showed in the last 20 minutes.

He continued: "It was competitive in the first half. I felt we left a good share of scores behind us in that time. We told the lads to settle down and be a bit more patient with the ball up front.

"I thought we were forcing it a little bit. In the second half Mayo had to chase the game a little bit and we played on the break.”

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