Clare have momentum. The players are in good form but it’s difficult to know how much last Saturday’s game will have taken out of them ahead of their qualifier against Cork.

The only game I could really recall like it was Leinster’s incredible turnaround against Northampton in the 2011 Heineken Cup final

I was sitting at a desk in front of a TV monitor deep in the bowels of Croke Park on Saturday afternoon when Ray McManus, the renowned Sportfile photographer, was suddenly standing nearby.

Tipperary were the best team in the country in 2019, but, human nature being as it is, there are more teams than just Limerick which place an asterisk beside their All-Ireland win of two years ago.

The foul was committed inside the 20m line but how could James Owens’ mind compute, in that handful of seconds, that it was a goalscoring chance?

When we were locked down in misery over the winter, it was the prospect of weekends like this that kept so many people going

Allowing John Conlon — who Waterford effectively allowed play as a sweeper — to play so much easy ball was crazy stuff

Whatever team Waterford name, they will fancy their chances. They will take a lot of confidence from the manner of last year’s All-Ireland quarter-final win, especially the way in how they streaked away from Clare in the last quarter. Waterford ended with 3-27 that afternoon. Anything close to that will be enough again

In 2017 and 2018, you could hand-pick Galway’s main leaders but the guys who are running this team now are the Mannion brothers, Conor Whelan, and Brian Concannon

There was bound to be an element of shadow boxing between teams who are set to meet in the championship, but you could see how much sides were ramping it up last weekend. That was evident in Salthill, Parnell Park and especially Corrigan Park.