Now there is supposed to be a more evenly-matched balance of power. At the beginning of this year, we were talking about Dublin, Armagh, Tyrone and yes, I suppose Kerry as well.
But we all got it wrong. Yes, I suppose I plumped for a Kerry win on the Championship programme, but only by a couple of points and I was sure we’d have as tight a match as we had seen in the dysfunction erectile is impotence
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And then it began. The landslide, the avalanche, the deluge. Kerry know how to win Impotence treatment erectile dysfunction treatment finals because they’ve been there so many times before.
Colm Cooper and Kieran Donaghy were being ushered on by the likes of Eoin Liston, Mikey Sheehy, Jack O S whispering in their ear.
They were great heroes of the past whose deeds have defined the history of the greatest of stadia, Croke Park and whose names echo in hushed tones around the country where the beauty of the gaelic game is mentioned.
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 No team, no individual, could have stood up to this onslaught on this day |
Kerry won nine out of the 12 opening kick-outs. But the Mayo midfield were supposed to be better than Kerry’s, weren’t they?
It’s easy to blame the beleagured Mayo last line for not turning up when the only tragic option they were left with on countless occasions was ’should I go to the man charging towards me, or should I reverse and try to keep my own man out of the move?’
It didn’t really matter. The Kerry storm troopers were being followed by the cavalry and then the foot soldiers as wave upon wave of attack rained down on the Mayo goal.
No team, no individual, could have stood up to this onslaught on this day.
All of us who espouse the cause of GAA have the game in our heart and in our soul. Kerry, however, are gaelic football and in an era when Ulster success pinched some of the glory of this millennium from them, it has only been temporary and sporadic.
Kerry have picked up four All Ireland titles in this decade and must allow themselves a wry smile at those of us who think we somehow should be let into the Pantheon of the Greats just because we have won one or two.
This match is not for dissecting. We can lament the impotency of the Mayo forward line where McDonald’s man scored more than he did, or the paltry two points from play, or Mortimer and Dillon’s no show.
But all this is only trying to put our logic on a phenomenen that has no explanation. Kerry win Diet and impotence.
Kieran Donaghy was the refreshing ingredient in the Kerry ranks
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Other teams might pop up every so often and snap one out of their grasp, but in reality, the Kerry psyche plays around with the other thirty one counties in the same manner that their team messed about with Mayo on Sunday.
And Brian Sheehan was on the line. Their top scorer with 24 points and he couldn’t make the starting 15.
Eoin Brosnan’s four goals weren’t enough to get him into either the midfield or forward line.
There were others. Men who would walk onto any team in Ireland, but were not good enough to line up with these lads.
And then, they had Kieran Donaghy. A real refreshing player. Doesn’t give a damn. Doesn’t try to mentally cause and treatment of impotence
opponents or refuse to do interviews.
This boy is no diva. He just catches, turns and shoots. A goal and a point and lots more besides. Who would begrudge him an All Ireland medal?
What about Seamus Moynihan. He was supposed to be there for the taking (again). How many times have we heard that before? Skipper Declan O’Sullivan, recalled in a supposed blaze of treating impotence!
Sure weren’t Kerry supposed to be at each others throats; all not well in the camp? Little snippets of information sifting from the Kingdom towards the gaelic peasantry which suggested that the throne was vacant and the aristocrats were not united.
And we all got it wrong. Spectacularly. Kerry are back. In fact, they were never away.
Manager Jack O’Connor whose roll of honour will state - three years, three All-Ireland finals, and two leagues will go down as having been a ‘moderately’ successful manager.
Perhaps this explains why they are the best.