Crokes eye Mitchels’ five-in-a-row after Stacks put to sword

Dr Crokes 4-16 Austin Stacks 0-12

As their fourth consecutive annexing of the Bishop Moynihan Cup, their dominance of Kerry football has never been stronger — but neither has it been as pronounced as this latest victory, a ruthless 16-point execution of a team that had been posting high scores of their own in reaching yesterday’s decider.

It was five points better than their winning margin over Dingle last year. Austin Stacks were made to feel like second class citizens as the champions not only played around and above them, as had been expected, but through them too.