Patchy Kerry looking up, not down

SCREBOARD

IT wasn't as much a Saturday night for takeaways and learnings. Kerry needed two points in Tralee and if the performance from the All-Ireland champions was 'patchy', as per the manager, then the All-Ireland champions were happy enough to kick that particular can down the road to Tuesday.

Though they began with the urgency of men who had left the cars double-parked outside Austin Stack Park, Kerry spluttered their way through to the final whistle, "things getting a bit hairy near the end", in Jack O'Connor's words, as Roscommon appealed for a last-second penalty that might have levelled it up.