‘I’m not into sweepers, I don’t like it. I never played with one myself’

A master of his trade is asked to consider how the apprentices are faring. Seamus Moynihan likes what he sees. He won’t say love. Not yet. For all the magic they weaved over Mayo in Killarney last month, Kerry ended up conceding more than the westerners by the end of the group.

He knows they can’t keep believing they are going to score more than the other team when alarm bells have punctuated the summer. Perhaps it’s a rite of passage as this group mature but if Kerry are to go beyond tomorrow then they require a meaner streak.