Dick Clerkin

There's a lot of stuff that has to happen on both sides of the divide for that to happen.

So looking at Donegal...

where they, I don't buy into it, McGuinness and those players are too good and too experienced to not be prepared, right?

But at the same time, they were at home.

They would have walked out under that pitching letter, Kenny.

I'd say it was 20, if there was 15,000 there, if there was 10,000, there was 9,500 Donegal supporters.

There was nobody from down at it.

There was no, you could barely see a red jersey in it.

So they were in an environment, they're at home, they can't be beaten in there at Kenny, down supporters haven't travelled.

It's very difficult to park complacency or any sense that this is just a foregone conclusion, no matter what's been spoken about.

So that was there, right?

The preparation, the hype, very hard to maintain the standards.

As down will face when they have to try and prepare for Armand next week, they were coming off such a high from the league.

And they didn't have necessarily the motivation to beat a Kerry.

So very hard mentally to get up to that as it bore out.

Personnel injuries.

You can't underestimate the impact of losing Michael Langan.

Like if you were to put one area of the pitch, one player, one battle that had a massive sway in terms of how that game, it was Murdoch and not having a Michael Langan to compete with him.

Like I was...

I was on the move yesterday and I was trying to watch the match on my phone and got most of the second half.