This Sunday's All-Ireland final looks a potential championship match for the ages as Kerry and Dublin are set to battle it out on one of the biggest days in the Irish sporting calendar.
As well as that, in an affair nearly as traditional as Kerry v Dublin, Pat Spillane, Joe Brolly and Colm O'Rourke were re-united for one last hoorah this week ahead of the game.
While the opening few minutes of their appearance on The Breaking Ball podcast were dominated by craic and sly digs at each other, as expected it all came to odds when Joe Brolly was left defending his prediction of a Dublin win on Sunday.
The Derry man gave a brutally honest assessment of his native county's quality compared to Dublin following the Kingdom's struggles against the Ulster Champions.
If Brolly's comments about probably the third-best team in the country are to be believed, the reality is that this championship was little more than a two-horse race from the outset.
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Joe Brolly dismisses Kerry's win over his native Derry
With Brolly adamant that the only realistic result on Sunday would be the return of Sam Maguire to the capital, Colm O'Rourke pointed out that Kerry had shown great resolve to overcome Derry in the semi-final despite obviously struggling at times.
However, Joe Brolly's brutally honest assessment of Derry's lack of quality rubbished claims that Kerry's resolve was worthy of plaudits.
(They got moving again) Against a not great Derry team Colm.
A whole lot of it (Derry's success) is a carefully rehearsed system, six o'clock in the morning, morning after morning after morning for weeks on end. We would not have anything like the quality of footballer that the Dubs have.
Not one of our forwards would make the Dublin forward line.
While fellow Derry man Conán Doherty jumped to their defence with cries that Shane McGuigan would, Joe was having absolutely none of it.
Sorry Conan - There are two reasons why he wouldn't. One he can't run and two he's one footed. He's a very stylish left footed kicker with that loop around on the outside kicking off his left foot or the wee dummy to come inside and kick off his left foot.
He would not be able to hack it in that Dublin forward line. Their pace, their ability...he would not be able to hack it on that Dublin team.
We've won two Ulsters in a row at a time where football in Ulster is mediocre, but, in the league final against Dublin this year whenever we were absolutely flying, Dublin cut us to pieces.
While it might have been a harsh assessment of probably the third-best team in the country, it was Brolly's intention to highlight that Kerry's hard-fought comeback against Derry wasn't something to get too excited about, with even Spillane and O'Rourke struggling to disagree.
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In Brolly's defence, he made it clear how proud he was of the Derry team and their success but he simply couldn't equate their performances to that of this Dublin side, with Brolly and O'Rourke in absolute agreement that Sam Maguire won't be leaving the Capital on Sunday. While Spillane was left hanging onto his hopes for another Kerry win.
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