When I watch rugby games on television, I loathe when the commentator talks about the huge amount of ‘unseen work’ being done by certain players. 

They are at the halfway point of their six-step plan for All-Ireland success, though the serious stuff is really just beginning for Denis Bastick and Dublin.

Keeping in line with the most predictable provincial championships in recent times, tomorrow is shaping up to be a nice day for a white wedding. An arranged marriage, that is, at Dublin’s behest. Appropriately, apart from wearing blue they have something old, something new and something borrowed.

Dublin’s third consecutive Division 1 title was extra sweet for veteran Denis Bastick given his injury difficulties last year.