Former Kerry All-Ireland winning player and manager Éamonn Fitzmaurice thinks Kerry will be not taking Galway lightly ahead of their meeting in the All-Ireland football final.
Speaking on this week's RTÉ GAA podcast, the Finuge man says that recent past experiences against Galway means that this Kerry team will be on high alert to stop the Tribesmen causing an upset.
Galway won the last time the pair met in the championship back in 2018 at Croke Park, a day that Fitzmaurice was at the helm for.
"That 2018 game, that was probably my most disappointing day involved in management."
Fitzmaurice also thinks that Galway's win in the U21 All-Ireland semi-final against Kerry back in 2017, will mean the men from the west will not fear the Kingdom.
"Kieran Molloy, Dylan McHugh, Cillian McDaid, Rob Finnerty, Sean Kelly all of those fellas were on that Galway Under-21 team in 2017.
"That group had won a minor All-Ireland in 2014 for Kerry, and a lot of the lads Tom O'Sullivan, Brian Ó Beaglaoich, Gavin White, Killian Spillane there was a load of those lads on that team and they were beaten by Galway in an Under-21 semi-final."
"From the point of view of Galway, they wont fear Kerry and at the other side, that Kerry group lost to Galway, they were also being managed by Jack at the time."
Fitzmaurice thinks those two games will give Kerry enough warnings of the dangers that Galway pose to them.
"I think from the Kerry perspective, there will be no taking Galway lightly both from the senior players, nearly all of those lads that played yesterday would have been playing in that game in 2018 in Croke Park in the Super 8s and there is a significant cohort of them who would have played in the 2017 semi-final against Galway aswell.
"They definitely wont be taking them lightly."
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