Acclimatising outside of Mark Griffin's comfort zone

What’s delayed Mark Griffin? The extinction of a species, for one thing.

As far back as 2009, when Coláiste na Sceilge won the Hogan Cup with him marking off a no-go area in front of their goal, factions in Kerry have foreseen the day he’d be thrown the keys to the Kerry square.

After decades of pretty impressive improvisation at No. 3, Kingdom traditionalists had their prototype full-back. Someone to chip and mould into a pillar of strength. Velvet hands and iron elbows. A man to joust and pluck and bullock and surge.