More to come from this team, say Kingdom legends

DON’T rush to judgment on the future for Kerry football following the weekend failure to end Down’s significant record against the Kingdom in the All-Ireland football championship.

The future is far from bleak, insist former greats Eoin Liston and Seamus Moynihan, with the ‘Bomber’ adamant that even in the absence of leading players Tomás O Sé and Paul Galvin, a favourable call from the referee on the ‘goal’ scored by Killian Young before half-time could have produced a different result.

Liston rejects the notion that it marks the end of an era for Kerry, responding: “I wouldn’t see it as a watershed. We were down six players from last year. It would have been great for Kerry football if you could win an All-Ireland down that number of first-team players, but it would have been a bad reflection on the state of football everywhere else.