Eight League talking points as Kerry secure the sweetest of wins
A sign of things to come?
Kerry’s title success was doubly sweet as no team in Division 1 experimented heavier than the Kingdom throughout spring. Eamonn Fitzmaurice handed game time to 34 different players in total across their eight games. To put that figure into context, Monaghan, who came within a whisker of reaching the final themselves, used just 27. That Kerry weren’t just competitive but actually claimed honours while experimenting to that level will please their supporters most. Jack Savage and Ronan Shanahan started seven of their eight games, one more than Jack Barry and Kevin McCarthy. Gavin Crowley and Adrian Spillane came on for precious final experience at Croke Park too. Fitzmaurice was under particular pressure to look to youth this year, partly because the same group had consistently come up short to Dublin, though mainly because of the county’s three-in-a-row of minor successes. That supply line of talent is already kicking in and we could be talking about another green and gold era of dominance within five years.
