Tommy Walsh is concerned about Kerry's lack of competitive games as they gear up for the All-Ireland series.

The Kingdom enjoyed a comfortable Munster SFC semi-final victory over Cork before hammering Limerick by 23 points in the final.

"It's a big enough fear to be honest," the recently-retired Walsh admitted to RTÉ at the launch of Guinness 0.0's new GAA campaign.

"It's probably hard for Kerry to know exactly where they're at. That's no disrespect to the teams they've played. But those teams haven't been up around the business end over the past couple of years. The worry would be when you are tested that it's nearly too late at that stage.

"But from Kerry's perspective, it's gone to plan so far. They've had two decent wins. Both Limerick and Cork put up a bit of a challenge at the start of both games but they (Kerry) were able to kick on and win the games relatively comfortably.

"They've done everything they could do behind the scenes. They're training very hard and getting themselves ready. But I suppose we won't really know until they come up against one of those teams that people would consider one of the contenders."

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