Eoin Brosnan says Kerry badly needed first battle

Advantage Kerry is Eoin Brosnan’s assessment of their delicately balanced All-Ireland semi-final replay with Mayo — even if he knows the Kingdom have already used up their get-out-of-jail card last Sunday.

Stephen Rochford’s side seem to have a few of them but the former Kerry star, who won two of his three All-Ireland medals in finals against Mayo, expects his county to be the better of finally experiencing a battle in the drawn game.

“Kerry had won their games pretty comfortably. Clare were up early in the first half, but Kerry ran out