Oh, how we all laughed. And oh, how we were all outraged. By The Camogie Association, and Tossgate, and the idea that whoever progressed to the next round of the All-Ireland series could be selected as randomly and flippantly as that.

The game panned out more or less as I expected. Waterford put in a spirited challenge and were never fully out of the game but Kilkenny’s class up front told in the second half.