Mike Quirke: ‘Yerra’ platitudes have been part of build-ups for Kerry

Let me put it out there from the throw-in, I’m not soft-soaping you here and I do believe Kerry will beat Tipperary in Sunday’s Munster SFC semi-final.

I know I’m not exactly going out on a limb with that, but I also genuinely don’t feel it will be as comfortable as the historical template for this fixture would suggest.

Always around this time of year when I was involved, the Kerry players and management would become very proficient at being dishonest. The brazen knavery would revolve around playing these early rounds of the Munster championship, and facing traditional minnows like Tipperary, Waterford or Clare.