Seven things we have learned from Kerry win as attention now turns to Down

2: Jim McGuinness, the coach, is as cerebral as they come

Jim McGuinness must have mulled over every single aspect of the All-Ireland final loss. The Donegal boss might have been in a snappy mood last January when, after an opening NFL win over Dublin, the entire line of questioning zoned in on what Donegal got wrong the previous July. But Sunday’s efforts were a complete amendment to so much of that. Now, Sunday’s result comes with ther compete caveat that ‘it’s just the league’. But there is no doubt Kerry will feel a lot more vulnerable heading into summer as a direct result of how Donegal picked them apart. But it was a strange enough afternoon in the sense that so many of the individual battles we’d looked forward to never really materialised. I don’t remember Joe O’Connor and Jason McGee crossing paths that significantly, while Clifford and Brendan McCole didn’t have their expected sequel. Max Campbell, for the same reasons outlined above in relation to Clifford/McColgan, was never on a backfoot up against Seanie O’Shea. Quite the opposite really, as he landed three points.