Fitzmaurice must now be thinking a step ahead

Safe to say, this is not 2014 all over again. Kerry may indeed win the replay as they did back then. They surely will be all the better for a battle of such magnitude two days ago but they will have to bring something different if they are to do so.

Mayo, the chameleons of Gaelic football, certainly will. After Aidan O’Shea’s stilted (if not terribly disappointing) assignment at full-back, everything is on the table and O’Shea being recast as gamekeeper turned poacher at the other end of the field can’t be dismissed — especially if Mark Griffin is dropped.

By his Croke Park standards, Lee Keegan might have been quiet but then his presence coupled with a belief Mayo wouldn’t kick long into their inside forwards seemed to prompt the Kerry half-back line to abdicate their responsibilities of protecting their full-back line.