Are Kerry as good as people say they are? Larry Tompkins says we'll find that out this evening.

The 1990 Cork All-Ireland winning captain doesn't agree with the general consensus that the Rebels blew their chance of dethroning the Kingdom in the drawn game.

"It's massive chance," he said to The Irish Independent. "Twelve months ago you would have questioned some of the players. But now they have shown what they can do.

"Pat Flanagan seems to have brought them on a fair bit and they looked to have the run on Kerry in the second half. I'd love to see them play with that abandon and physicality that they did in the second half and go at them.

"We saw the last day that the team that runs at Kerry will give them problems. There were some gaping holes, they got three goals and they could have had five.

"And we'll get a chance to see if this Kerry team are as good as people are saying or if Cork can get back to that level or did they just catch them the last day.

"These lads would have played against them and beaten them in colleges and U-21 so you'd love to see them show that desire again."

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