Maurice Brosnan: As champions continue to stumble, will Mayo’s kickout gamble catch on?

For his last answer in a remarkably compelling pre-All-Ireland final press conference, Andy Moran wanted to offer an important qualification about kickouts: they are important but not all-important.

“Am I right in saying the two teams who lost that midfield battle the last day won the games? Yeah,” he said, referencing both semi-finals where the team that won the majority of kickouts went on to lose the game. Dublin and Louth both fell into this bracket.

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