Even when it's bad, Dublin against Kerry is good.
It's just three weeks since Gaelic football's oldest rivals met in a fierce game under lights in Tralee. Bar the final few minutes, it was tough to watch, with both teams more interested in third man tackles and pulling and dragging than playing ball.
But with the Dubs staging a late comeback to equal Kerry's long-standing 34 game unbeaten run, it was enough drama to whet the appetite for today's meeting at Croke Park.
Since then, Dublin have won back to back games to make that record their on at 36, and are now going in search of a staggering fifth Allianz football League title in a row, a feat which hasn't been achieved since Mayo's six-in-a-row in the 1930s.
The omens are good for them. Aside from their obvious unbeaten record, they've only been beaten once by the Kingdom at Croke Park since the famous 2009 All-Ireland quarter final. In eight league and All-Ireland final appearances since Jim Gavin took over in 2012, they've won seven and drawn one.
Under Gavin, Dublin have become ruthless serial winners, and their team selection for this afternoon,s final shows just how seriously they're taking it. Experienced campaigners Bernard Brogan, Cian O'Sullivan and Diarmuid Connolly all come in, with the likes of Stephen Cluxton, Philly McMahon, James, McCarthy, Brian Fenton and Paul Flynn also present and correct, Flynn in particular has looked like a new player this season.
After losing Marc O'Sé and Aidan O'Mahony to retirement at the end of last season, Kerry were also without Kieran Donaghy and Colm Cooper for the league campaign, before Cooper confirmed his own retirement this week. Given the circumstances, avoiding relegation is a scenario that Eamonn Fitzmaurice probably would have been content with. Getting to the final is a bonus, not that Kerry will treat it like that. Anybody who saw the ferocity of that game in Tralee three weeks ago can be sure that this is as close as we'll get to championship in April.
Fitzmaurice's comments at the start of the week were like petrol on a fire, defending his side's physical approach, before adding that the Dubs were well able to handle themselves in the physical stakes.
It's bound to make for a feisty game of ball at Croker.
Division 2 Final - Galway v Kildare
It's job done for both Galway and Kildare so far this season.
Promotion back to the top tier is wrapped up, and now it's all about lifting a bonus piece of silverware.
The Connacht champions booked their place in the final, and sealed promotion, by beating the Lilywhites just seven days ago, capping off an impressive campaign which saw just one defeat to Meath.
It's difficult to read much into that meeting last week. Kildare were already promoted, and the team named by Cian O'Neill shows 13 changes from that outing, with just Fionn Dowling and Ben McCormack retaining their places in the 15.
Galway may have ended an eight year wait for the Connacht title in 2016, but today's game provides Kevin Walsh's men with another chance to end a long wait, this time for a win at Croke Park, something they haven't done since the All-Ireland final in 2001.
