Seven talking points from the weekend's GAA action

Kerry played on their own terms in beating Donegal, but Tyrone have some problems to fix...

Kerry hit the ground running

The dominance of David Moran was a major talking point in Letterkenny yesterday but from a general perspective the urgency of Kerry in taking dead balls, particularly kick-outs, was obvious. Both of their goals came from quick-thinking and within seconds of Brian Kelly having put the ball on the tee. Both also immediately followed Donegal scores — Paul Geaney’s first coming less than 60 seconds after Michael Murphy’s penalty and his second in the wake of Paul Brennan’s point. Dublin are renowned as the masters of dictating the flow of games with the speed of their kick-outs or lack thereof but here it was Kerry who were showing they too can play on their own terms. The directness involved for those goals, but other scores too, was impressive, as was their success in putting the squeeze on Mark Anthony McGinley’s restarts in the first half when they turned over Donegal 10 times.