Kingdom draw first blood

FEBRUARY gains fall well shortof September losses but what-ever boxes could be ticked for Kerry were ticked. What could be achieved was achieved.

The vast majority of the 45,838 Croke Park crowd on Saturday evening didn’t get what they came to see simply because the visitors didn’t allow it.

Kerry weren’t ruthless but they didn’t have to be. They were just better, their clutch of greenhorns cohesively knitting in with the bevy of household names.