In the days since the Division 1 final, there’s been some debate as to how much we’re to read into it.
It’s far from a disaster for Kerry but they’d be unwise to write off the significance of the loss either.
We took a pasting off Kerry in the league final in my final year with Mayo – aka, 2022 – and it seemed to start our summer off on a dampener. In truth, we never really got revving again after it.
A one-point defeat to Galway in Castlebar, a couple of scratchy qualifier wins and then a fairly comfortable loss to Kerry was our lot that year. James Horan was gone shortly after it and I wasn’t long after him.
Kerry are obviously in a very different place. They’re All-Ireland champions and most of the…