Twelve months ago, as David Moran weighed up his Kerry future, his club’s run into the depths of winter made it that bit easier to commit to another season.
The county final, which Kerins O’Rahillys lost to Austin Stacks after losing their totemic midfielder to injury early on, wasn’t played until early December and so Moran hadn’t put himself into cold storage, with the reheating process often too much to stomach for thirty-somethings mulling over their inter-county future.
But while he rolled from one season into another then, albeit while nursing an injury, it’s far from a fait accompli this time, particularly with his wife, Sinead, due their second child next month.