What a final in prospect now

ANOTHER brilliant game, just as I had forecast, and I can’t understand how anyone could have expected otherwise.

When you looked at the odds beforehand it was as if people thought the display by Offaly last week in Croke Park was a fluke. It wasn’t, and the men from the Faithful County showed that in Portlaoise.

Even at half-time I got a text from a smart friend of mine – ‘didn’t I tell you it would be over early?’.