Dream Croke Park clash
a level over the last few games.
“Over the last while you would have to say Damien Comer has come in for a lot of serious attention without getting much out of it. There’s lot of hanging-on done before the ball comes in.”
Hard as it is to believe, but Group One could finish up with Kerry sneaking through.
They have Kildare, who in being beaten twice already will not contest a semi-final spot, at home in Killarney.
A win here by six or more points, and if Monaghan get nothing out of Galway, and the Kingdom meet Dublin in the All-Ireland semi-final.
There is one lingering sense about this game though. In recent months, a queue of former players-turned-pundits from Kerry have lined up to put the boot into Kildare’s Cian O’Neill, who had been Kerry’s physical trainer during their time. We’re talking Darragh, Tomás and Marc Ó Sé, and Paul Galvin.
Something went wrong in his time there, with Darragh Ó Sé even suggesting the furore over Kildare wishing to play their round four qualifier against Mayo in Newbridge was suiting O’Neill’s public perception.
Given how Kildare have been galvanised by the last month, even if the results have not been favourable, and the public utterances of support for O’Neill from his players, is it possible they will be going full-bore for a result?
The first-ever quarter-final group stages have given us much to chew over.