Kerry and Dublin dining at league top table

Transplant the final Division 1 table to this time next year when semi-finals will be a thing of the past and there would be no equivocation — for the first time in 30 years, Dublin and Kerry would contest a Division 1 final.

Of course, knowing in 2017 that a third or fourth place finish would amount to nothing, Roscommon may have upped their game in their last two fixtures and avoided losing their hold of second spot to Kerry.

However, it’s appropriate for a couple of reasons that Dublin and Kerry should finish top of the heap.