Eamonn Fitzmaurice: Incredible Dublin are ‘some team’ but still beatable

That Dublin walloped Mayo by 12 points last time out didn’t surprise Eamonn Fitzmaurice.

That Dublin haven’t lost a game in the two years and 17 days since Kerry cleaned their clock during a heated league encounter doesn’t surprise him either. Nothing, in fact, surprises the Kerry manager when it comes to this Dublin team.

In the wake of Dublin’s 2-14 to 0-14 league win over Kerry on January 30 of last year, the Kingdom management had a brief discussion about how well Dublin were motoring so early in the season. The general consensus amongst Fitzmaurice’s management was that if Jim Gavin’s side could hold their form over the ensuing nine months and deliver a second All-Ireland on the bounce, then they’d be “some team”.