Beware the slides of March
Because we never really know what different teams set out to do or just how much they’re giving the league, the first two rounds of league football can be particularly beguiling. How much can we read into Kerry’s poor attitude in Tralee three weeks ago? How real is the Armagh resurgence? Is Dublin’s indiscipline a sign they are not yet at the mental pitch required to drive on from last year ? And are Cork as good as they looked in dispatching Down?
As always, summer will determine the true worth of any team, but two teams who will surely have welcomed the three-week break are Donegal and Kildare, the teams that provided us with the maddest, most adrenaline fuelled and most transcendent moments of 2011. Two defeats from two league matches in February has supporters from both counties starting to worry.
