Kerry must dictate tempo

It’s a mark of Eamonn Fitzmaurice’s leadership that, at least up until the team was released on Thursday night, nobody made a big deal of their being so many final debutants in his group.

Only seven of the side that lost last year’s semi-final to Dublin feature from the outset tomorrow but inexperience isn’t considered a potential downfall of theirs.

If they are to lose to Donegal it will be because they allowed the game to be played on their opponents’ terms. That much was evident in Donegal’s win over Dublin towards the end of the first half when Jim McGuinness’s side had succeeded in slowing the game right down, punctuating it with the occasional burst forward.