Gavin White comes into the team in place of Shane Enright

Seventeen Kerry players are in line to make their All-Ireland senior final debut on Sunday afternoon.

Peter Keane wasn’t the least bit surprised to hear Jim Gavin regard his Kerry side as a team of the now, rather than one for the future.

Kerry team announcements are nothing to set your clock by right now, but for the record, Peter Keane has named David Moran in the 15 to face Meath in Navan on Saturday.

Peter Keane, as he normally does, kept his answers short and sweet when sat before a gathering of reporters not long after the final whistle.

It was a different Kerry dressing room that David Clifford stepped back into in March. Gone were Kieran Donaghy, Anthony Maher, Darran O’Sullivan, and Donnchadh Walsh.

Kerry manager Peter Keane has included four debutants in his first championship side, which will take on Clare in Cusack Park in tomorrow night’s Munster SFC semi-final (7pm).

The contrast couldn’t be starker. Of their 26-man panel that travelled to Roscommon last Sunday, 11 Kerry players have yet to lose a national final in Croke Park.

We can’t say for certain if Mayo’s players will be back at Croke Park this year beyond Sunday but they will certainly be seeing the inside of plenty of churches.

Kerry boss Peter Keane believes managers must re-examine their replacement strategies in the wake of the GAA’s decision to reduce permitted subs from six to five.

Seán O’Shea may only be 20 but he’s clued in enough to know what’s expected of Kerry this year irrespective of them losing so many veterans.

Selector Mikey Sheehy and coach Pádraic Corcoran stood with Éamonn Fitzmaurice for all six of his years as Kerry senior football manager. In a turbulent last 12 months, they weren’t spared much rod but it’s the players they feel most for.

Five Munster finals, four wins and one draw; Éamonn Fitzmaurice’s championship managerial record against Cork is almost as good as it gets.

Kerry defender Shane Enright has been ruled out of next weekend’s Munster SFC final.

It won’t stimulate anything like the debate over Kerry’s defence for Sunday’s Munster SFC semi-final in Killarney, but it should.

Kerry boss Eamonn Fitzmaurice may be giving youth its fling this summer, but he’s still looking to the old guard to help shape the Kingdom’s Championship destiny.

Kerry’s 2018 championship ambitions have received a setback with the news that Dr Crokes midfielder Johnny Buckley has left the senior football panel.

Meanwhile, Tipperary hurling manager Michael Ryan has handed a first league start to corner-forward Cian Darcy.

Judgment on Mayo will wait three weeks, though Heaven knows why. It’s not as if their defiance, determination and desperation is at issue.

I’ll ask the question: How much have Kerry actually progressed in 12 months? Have they found senior-ready players? No.

Kerry manager Éamonn Fitzmaurice defended both his tactics and his choice of starting team in yesterday’s All-Ireland semi-final defeat,

A stunning Mayo performance put an out-of-sorts Kerry out of their misery in a thoroughly deserving All-Ireland semi-final replay win.

What is it with Mayo and their management? They continue to display an incredible propensity for making things as difficult as they can for themselves.

The reflex impulse immediately after the final whistle yesterday was to describe this game as a classic. 

The intrigue of Aidan O’Shea at full back for Mayo was something everyone was keen to get Eamonn Fitzmaurice’s opinion on. Had you seen it coming? Did it work out to Kerry advantage?

Kerry and Mayo will have to do it all over again in Croke Park next Saturday as a Patrick Durcan additional time point effectively secured the replay.

Kieran Donaghy has been selected at full-forward for Sunday’s Munster SFC final against Cork in Fitzgerald Stadium, Killarney.

A league final like no other. A league final so pregnant with significance that it was bound to deliver.

Kerry defender Shane Enright rejected the assertion that he and his colleagues are obsessed about reeling in Dublin, whom they’ve beaten just twice now in their last 13 league and Championship encounters.

It didn’t require a trained lip-reader to decipher the sentiments of the Kerry players at the final whistle in Tralee, two words repeated and rhyming with book it.

Eamonn Fitzmaurice is unhappy with the timing of Donnchadh Walsh’s one-match ban, forcing the Kerry boss to make a fourth change to his team to face Monaghan on Sunday.

Kerry corner-back Shane Enright has been ruled out of Saturday’s Allianz Division 1 clash against Mayo with concussion but he may be available for the Monaghan game on February 26.

Donegal 1-17 Kerry 2-17: Too close for comfort in the end but a deceptive scoreline in many ways.