Ciarán Kilkenny believes David Clifford won’t be lured by AFL

Ciarán Kilkenny will spend the coming months scanning the horizon, weighing up exactly where the greatest threats to Dublin’s four-in-a-row bid will come from.

Kerry will inevitably feature high on that list and when Kilkenny pictures the Kingdom forwards in 2018, he sees David Clifford among them.

It’s only last weekend that the young Fossa forward delivered one of the great minor final performances, perhaps the best ever, when he scored 4-4 from play in their win over Derry.