WATCH: Eamonn Fitzmaurice pushing class of ‘15 to scale new heights

They just grinded it out. And in their manager Kerry have someone who continues to extract every last drop out of them.

You go through this Kerry team and they’re hardly as irresistible or as explosive or downright talented as the county’s teams of the noughties. The nucleus of those sides was made up of stars in their prime. Just look at the 2007 team: The three Ó Sés, Declan, Donaghy, Gooch, Galvin, all in their pomp, with the likes of Tom O’Sullivan and Eoin Brosnan at the height of their powers as well.

This side has only a couple of players of that stars in their prime profile — James O’Donoghue and David Moran —for a star at the peak of his powers is something now surely Ogie’s young fella has to be recognised as.