Kerry forwards lead Cork merry dance with their fancy footwork

GUESS it’s time to take these swash- bucklers seriously. Kerry have had such a summer of truculence, trauma and turmoil, someone forgot to mention that they land a hefty haymaker when they get their eye in.

So, 2-17 against the All-Ireland champions, 3-19 against the Munster champions? When these fellas start talking with their feet, they make an awful lot of sense. But yesterday's script was kinda teed up for them, don't you think?

Had they prevailed on that winter's day in June down in Killarney, they'd hardly be around yesterday. The replay, and more precisely its timing, brought its own injustices, and everybody now knows of the serious finger pointing at training in Killarney the following week. It was time to get livin' or get dyin'.