As things stand, Kerry are through to the decider. They won’t feel like winners in any sense

Kerry's Tommy Walsh of Kerry shakes hands with Niall Morgan of Tyrone after the Allianz Football League Division 1 semi-final in Killarney last June. Photo by Brendan Moran/Sportsfile

LET’S just say that the Tyrone collective had a long hard think about things and decided to throw out their last weapon they had been holding all along in order to squeeze some more time out of the Central Competitions Control Committee.

If you wish to give that theory any credence, you have to be prepared to indulge in the following conspiracy theory, advanced by some.