It's long been a gripe of the other elite counties that Kerry have a habit of stealing in and winning what are termed 'handy All-Irelands'.
Titles won in 1997 (when Tipperary, Clare, Cavan and Mayo were beaten), in 2004 (Cork, Limerick, mediocre Dublin team, Derry and Mayo) and even in 2014, when Dublin were taken out of the equation have been cited by rival supporters as evidence.
We've typically been sceptical of this claim, reasoning that one of the primary reasons why it always seems that Kerry win 'handy All-Irelands' is because they don't have to beat Kerry along the way.
When a team gets to winning as often as Kerry have down the generations, their All-Ireland victories take on a default character, meaning people are less likely to regard them as exceptional or noteworthy.
The same is already happening to the Dubs.
In many parts of Ulster, they disdain Kerry as the darlings of the southern media, pampered aristocrats who look down their nose at the new money in the North.
They love nothing more than juxtaposing their own fiendishly competitive provincial championship with the leisurely route to August accorded to Kerry.
Does this hold anymore? Does not the fact that Clare and Tipp are still in the mix not indicate that the Munster football championship is no longer the tame, rinky-dink affair of years gone by?
There are four Munster teams left in the All-Ireland championship, compared with three from Ulster and just the two Leinster championships.
Perhaps we need to re-assess the notion, implicit in the 'handy All-Ireland' narrative, that their Munster opponents are small-time outfits.
Kerry have beaten Clare and Tipperary to reach the All-Ireland quarter-final in which they will play one of Clare, Derry or Roscommon.
Once they reach the semi-final, they will more than likely run into Dublin. The A-side and B-side of the draw division disappears and the Munster champions (or the conquerors from the back-door) face the Leinster champions (or their conquerors from the back-door) meet in the All-Ireland semi-final.
There is another way of looking at this conundrum. Far from the tame route being of benefit to Kerry, many supporters are alarmed they will meet Dublin having no faced no elite class opposition.
Unless the demoralised Rossies can overcome the dreaded in six-day turnaround handicap in Salthill this weekend, Kerry will meet the Dubs having faced no Division 1 opposition. Although, the reliability of Division 1 as a guide to quality has been called into question this weekend.
For years, the Galway hurlers faced no serious opposition until the All-Ireland semi-final. When they won All-Irelands, opponents would grumble about their easy route having to only win two matches to claim the big one. When they lost, it was attributed to their lack of match practice, going in cold against the hardened Leinster or Munster champions.
Both these contrary arguments have been deployed over the years but the lack of success of Munster hurling champions in All-Ireland semi-finals in modern times indicates that the late entry was more of a hindrance than a help.
All evidence suggests that their route to the semi-final will be of no help to Kerry in the All-Ireland semi-final.
