Everyone has a story to tell in the All-Ireland quarter-finals but Dublin and Kerry remain the teams to beat

Everyone has a story to tell in the All-Ireland quarter-finals but Dublin and Kerry remain the teams to beat

These games tend to get away from teams who aren’t used to the stage — and even some who are. Ritual slaughter has been an abiding feature of these weekends back to the mid-2000s. It wasn’t such a thing in the early years — between 2001 and 2007, the average margin of victory in an All-Ireland quarter-final was a shade under 4.5 points.

All of which is intended as a public health warning of sorts in advance of this weekend. A quick squiz at the bookmakers’ prognostications tells us that they reckon no game this weekend will be decided by more than five points. Modern history tells us they are dead wrong. Let’s see. Anyone imagining Jack O’Connor’s team might be coming in here undercooked is probably grasping at straws. For all that they’ve faced no real opposition — they haven’t seen a Division One team since last year’s All-Ireland final — that has never been much of a hindrance before. Their last five quarter-final appearances have ended in victories by 12, eight, eight, 11 and 27 points. They tend to use these games not so much to blow off the cobwebs as sandblast them.

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