DARA Ó CINNEIDE: Mayo loss a worry but crisis talk is excessive

Too many Kerry players threw in the towel last weekend but a different attitude can be expected against the Dubs

Parsing the Kerry playbook from last Sunday in MacHale Park for signs of what might happen in Fitzgerald Stadium tomorrow may be a pointless exercise, but that second half performance against Mayo revealed enough about the challenge facing Eamon Fitzmaurice and his management team this year.

Longford’s famous league victory over Kerry in Pearse Park nearly a decade ago has been resurrected this week with some sifting through the entrails to find similarities between the inauspicious start to the Jack O’Connor era and the beginning of Fitzmaurice’s reign.