Kerry have upped the physical stakes

“When I hear Kerry talking about Dublin football or other counties, I take it with a large pinch of salt.”

The remarks of Jim Gavin in July 2015 when Darragh Ó Sé suggested an All-Ireland quarter-final with Fermanagh wasn’t what Dublin needed.

Éamonn Fitzmaurice might have said the same were he asked about yesterday’s Irish Examiner in which former Dublin midfielder Paul Bealin said Kerry didn’t want to be facing the All-Ireland champions so soon after their draw in Tralee.