Anthony Moyles.
FORMER Meath player, Anthony Moyles, has come out with some interesting comments about the quality of the Kerry attack and how the side stacks up compared with the other two remaining teams in the championship.
Moyles feels Kerry are not at the same level as Dublin and Mayo, despite being 70 minutes away from back to back All-Irelands.
Speaking on Newstalk’s ‘Off The Ball’ last night the former Royal had this to say.
“I think Dublin and Mayo will be the happiest from watching yesterday because I think they are both superior to Kerry. People will say if Mayo win that they won’t want to play Kerry, but I really do think Mayo are at a different level and I think Dublin are at a different level.”
“I still think Kerry are lacking something up front, I think they have too many question marks over their players,” said Moyles.
At this point, ‘Off the Ball’ regular, Colm Parkinson was forced to interject.
“What? You think Kerry are lacking up front!” he said astonished.
“I think they are,” said Moyles.
“I think Gooch is not firing, O’Donoghue is coming out having to do a lot of donkey work, I think Geaney has to start. I just think they don’t have an Aidan O’Shea, a Cillian O’Connor and the lads that Dublin have,” he said.
This drew laughter from Parkinson, followed by a more reasoned response from the former Laois star.
“James O’Dononghue is the best corner forward in the country and he’ll prove it in the final. I don’t think Kerry have problems up front at all, I think they have an embarrassment of riches,” said ‘Woolly’.
Mayoman, Billy Joe Padden, reluctantly entered the debate when he was asked does he agree with Anythony Moyles?
“Funnily enough I think along those lines, at the start of the season I would have put Dublin out there as the class team and I still think that,” said Billy Joe.
Anthony Moyles works as stockbroker so presumably he was still shell-shocked by the activities on the international markets on Monday.
Either way, these kind of comments are manna from heaven for Kerry in the build up to an All-Ireland.
Yerra shur, what’s the point of us travelling up at all! Yer man from Meath said we haven’t a hope!
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