Philly McMahon

Do you know what, when you're at that stage of the season, you just want another extra game and to play a top quality opposition, you're in bonus territory and you just don't want to be going and doing runs that week.

So I think both players were set out, regardless of what the silverware was at the end of it, I think both players will kind of be thinking, do you know what, this is great, we're in Crow Park, we're playing a game against...

a team that if it's Donegal that we all want it and possibly we need to put a marker down here for later in the year and Kerry are kind of going look we need to keep the foot down on the throats of these because these feel like they're the next big opponents for us so it was for me it was

It was one of those things where it started to drift fairly early in the game in terms of energy.

And you were looking at Kerry going, hold on a second here.

You're not clouding this back.

It's getting worse.

And the energy started to... You could see in the Kerry players.

I'd love to see their GPS stats to see what distance they covered compared to Donegal.

And the efficiency of Donegal was like...

Something that I haven't seen in a very long time.

And I'm not talking to, you know, I'm talking about like they had 32 attacks and they got 31 shots off.

That's incredible.

Now you can put that down to them being very efficient on the ball.

The movement off the ball was excellent.

every time they were getting into that position where, Kerry, you were setting the defensive structure, you could just see bodies moving all the time and it was very hard for them to, it was like they were just waiting for somebody to slip or someone to be 1v1.

Or you could put that down to Donegal's, sorry, Kerry's energy defensively, not being at it, like, you know.

But ultimately, what it comes down to is

What comes from this?

You know, if you weren't a Kerry, you'd be probably thinking, psychologically, that has a big imprint in where you are right now and what you need to get after.