Stephen Rochford and Mayo desperately seeking Sam

Judgment on Mayo will wait three weeks, though Heaven knows why. It’s not as if their defiance, determination and desperation is at issue.

For Kerry it was swift and brutal, unreasonable some of it, though oddly understandable in an age when everything concretes into absolutes within 140 characters.

It’s a while since a Kerry senior football side looked as ragged and dishevelled as they were by the close of Saturday’s All-Ireland semi-final replay.